European Alternatives to AWS
Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform. Below are 13 alternatives from companies headquartered in Germany, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. 10 of them keep data in the EU only, and 1 has a free plan.
Headquartered in Europe
Every company listed here has its headquarters in the EU, EEA, UK or Switzerland, not just a data centre there.
Data location you can check
The pricing table shows whether each one keeps data in the EU only, offers an EU region, or does not say.
Outside the US CLOUD Act
US providers can be ordered to hand over data held in their European data centres. A European company with no US parent or US operations is outside that reach.
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| Company | Headquarters | Data Residency | Founded | Pricing | Open Source | Employees | Funding | Replaces | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gunzenhausen, Germany | 🇪🇺 EU Only | 1997 | From €3.29/mo (VPS) | ❌ No | ~400 | Bootstrapped, privately owned since 1997 | DigitalOcean, AWS EC2 | Visit | |
| Paris, France | 🇪🇺 EU Only | 1999 | From €0.0025/hour | ❌ No | ~600 | Subsidiary of Iliad Group (€8B+ revenue) | AWS, Google Cloud | Visit | |
| Roubaix, France | 🇪🇺 EU Only | 1999 | From €3.50/mo | ❌ No | ~2,500 | Public company (Euronext: OVH) | AWS, Google Cloud, Azure | Visit | |
| Geneva, Switzerland | 🇪🇺 EU Only | 1994 | From CHF 3.90/mo | ❌ No | ~200 | Employee-owned, no external investors | GoDaddy, Bluehost | Visit | |
| Bonn, Germany | — | — | Custom | ❌ No | ~200 (Comma Soft group) | Part of Comma Soft (est. 1987) | ChatGPT, OpenAI API, Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock | Visit |
AWS Alternatives: Pricing and Hosting Compared
Starting prices are the lowest paid plan each vendor publishes. Check the vendor's pricing page before you buy, as plans change.
| Alternative | Country | Free plan | Paid plans | Open source | Data residency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hetzner | Germany | No | From €3.29/mo | No | EU only |
| Scaleway | France | No | From €0.0025/hour | No | EU only |
| OVHcloud | France | No | From €3.50/mo | No | EU only |
| Infomaniak | Switzerland | No | From CHF 3.90/mo | No | EU only |
| Alan AI | Germany | No | Custom quote | No | Not stated |
| Aleph Alpha | Germany | No | Custom quote | No | EU only |
| Berget AI | Sweden | No | Usage-based | No | Not stated |
| Cortecs AI | Austria | No | Usage-based | No | EU region available |
| Exoscale | Switzerland | No | From CHF 0.006/hour | No | EU only |
| Feld AI | Austria | No | Usage-based | No | EU only |
| Fuga Cloud | Netherlands | No | From €5/mo | No | EU only |
| Infercom | Luxembourg | No | Usage-based | Yes | EU only |
| Orq.ai | Netherlands | Yes | From $49/mo | No | EU only |
13 European Alternatives
Hetzner
German hosting powerhouse. Incredible price/performance. Dedicated servers and cloud.
French cloud provider. VPS, Kubernetes, serverless, object storage. Competitive pricing.
French cloud giant. One of Europe's largest hosting providers. Full cloud suite.
Swiss hosting provider. Eco-friendly, independent, privacy-focused.
Alan (by Comma Soft) is a German enterprise generative AI platform based in Bonn, providing secure AI chat and autonomous agents designed for data sovereignty. The platform enables organizations to deploy ChatGPT-like capabilities within their own infrastructure or on German cloud servers, ensuring that sensitive data never leaves the organization's control. Alan supports multiple LLM backends and provides tools for building custom AI agents that can access internal knowledge bases, execute workflows, and interact with enterprise systems. The platform is particularly popular with German enterprises and public sector organizations.
German sovereign AI platform focused on enterprise and public-sector deployments in regulated environments.
Berget AI is a Swedish sovereign AI cloud platform providing EU-hosted AI inference infrastructure. The platform enables European organizations to run open-source large language models on dedicated EU servers without sending data to US cloud providers. Berget AI dynamically routes AI workloads across European data centers for optimal performance and cost, offering a simple API that's compatible with the OpenAI format for easy migration. The platform supports models like Llama, Mistral, and other open-source LLMs, with a focus on data sovereignty, GDPR compliance, and competitive pricing compared to US alternatives.
Cortecs AI is an Austrian company providing Europe's LLM router — a sovereign AI inference gateway that dynamically routes AI workloads across European cloud providers. The platform optimizes for cost, latency, and compliance by intelligently selecting the best EU-based infrastructure for each request. Cortecs enables enterprises to use open-source models like Llama and Mistral without depending on US hyperscalers, while maintaining full GDPR compliance. The API is OpenAI-compatible, making migration from US AI providers straightforward.
Swiss cloud provider. Simple, reliable, European. Great for regulated industries.
Feld.ai is an Austrian AI company that transforms unstructured documents into usable, structured information using a combination of AI and human expertise. The platform specializes in intelligent document processing (IDP) — extracting data from invoices, contracts, forms, and other business documents with high accuracy. Feld.ai's approach combines machine learning with human-in-the-loop validation to ensure data quality, making it suitable for regulated industries where accuracy is critical. The platform processes documents in the EU and is GDPR compliant.
Dutch OpenStack cloud. 100% open source infrastructure. True European alternative.
Infercom is a Luxembourg-based sovereign AI inference platform providing EU-hosted infrastructure for running open-source LLMs on dedicated SambaNova hardware. The platform offers high-performance AI inference without relying on US hyperscalers, with all processing happening in European data centers. Infercom supports major open-source models and provides an API for easy integration. The platform is designed for enterprises and organizations that need sovereign AI capabilities with guaranteed data residency in the EU.
Orq.ai is a Dutch LLM operations platform that helps development teams build, test, deploy, and monitor AI-powered applications. The platform provides a centralized workspace for managing prompts, evaluating model outputs, running A/B tests, and monitoring production LLM performance. Orq.ai supports all major LLM providers and enables teams to switch between models without code changes. The platform is designed for engineering teams building AI features into their products who need observability, version control, and quality assurance for their LLM integrations.
What to Check Before Switching from AWS
Where your data will be stored
10 of the 13 alternatives here say they keep data in the EU only. Cortecs AI offers an EU region alongside others, so choose it explicitly when you set up the account. Alan AI and Berget AI do not state where data is stored. Ask before you move anything sensitive.
How you can try it
Orq.ai has a free plan, so you can run a real test before cancelling AWS. Alan AI and Aleph Alpha sell on custom quotes only, which usually means a sales call before you can try it.
Open source
Infercom releases its software or models under an open licence, which makes it easier to self-host, inspect what runs, and move again later.
Security certifications
Certifications we have confirmed on the vendor’s own site: Scaleway (HDS); OVHcloud (ISO 27001, ISO 27701); Exoscale (ISO 27001, SOC 2, BSI C5, HDS); Fuga Cloud (ISO 27001). If your procurement requires one, check the others directly.
What you need to bring from AWS
List the data, templates and integrations you rely on in AWS, then confirm each one can be exported and that the alternative can import it or offers an API to rebuild it.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What are the European alternatives to AWS?
- We list 13 companies headquartered in Europe that replace AWS: Hetzner (Germany), Scaleway (France), OVHcloud (France), Infomaniak (Switzerland), Alan AI (Germany), Aleph Alpha (Germany), Berget AI (Sweden), Cortecs AI (Austria), Exoscale (Switzerland), Feld AI (Austria), Fuga Cloud (Netherlands), Infercom (Luxembourg) and Orq.ai (Netherlands).
- Is there a free European alternative to AWS?
- Orq.ai has a free plan. Free plans usually come with limits on usage or features, so check them against how you use AWS today.
- Which AWS alternatives keep data in the EU?
- Hetzner, Scaleway, OVHcloud, Infomaniak, Aleph Alpha, Exoscale, Feld AI, Fuga Cloud, Infercom and Orq.ai keep data in the EU only. Cortecs AI lets you choose an EU region.
- Is there an open-source European alternative to AWS?
- Yes: Infercom.