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EU VETTED
Alternatives to

European alternatives to Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft-owned cloud platform. Direct CLOUD Act exposure regardless of EU region.

ALTERNATIVES
12
CLOUD-ACT · NONE
10
WITH BSI C5
0
FREE TIER
0

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TOP PICKS

Which are the closest Microsoft Azure alternatives?

Ordered by feature parity and migration friction, which is weighted higher than feature breadth.

Cyso Cloud
Netherlands · Founded 2016
EU-HOSTED
★ #1 PICK

Dutch OpenStack public cloud (Cyso B.V., Alkmaar; formerly Fuga Cloud) on the operator's own hardware in Amsterdam and Frankfurt; ISO 27001 + NEN 7510, but no public DPA and a 2018 sub-processor list naming AWS, Microsoft and Google.

Public DPA Sub-processors Open source
FROM
€17.5/mo
CLOUD ACT
MATERIAL
STACKIT
Germany · Founded 2019
EU-SOVEREIGN
★ #2 PICK

German sovereign cloud built by Schwarz Digits (Lidl/Kaufland parent), 4 EU DCs, EU Cloud III €180M winner with SEAL-3 highest rating.

Public DPA Sub-processors Open source
FROM
CLOUD ACT
NONE
T Cloud Public (formerly Open Telekom Cloud)
Germany · Founded 2016
EU-SOVEREIGN
★ #3 PICK

Deutsche Telekom's OpenStack public cloud (T-Systems), Biere + Magdeburg DCs, ISO 27001 + BSI C5 + TISAX; rebranded from Open Telekom Cloud.

Public DPA Sub-processors Open source
FROM
CLOUD ACT
NONE
SIDE-BY-SIDE

How do the 12 European alternatives to Microsoft Azure compare?

All 12 alternatives, benchmarked against Microsoft Azure.

Feature comparison

Beyond compliance: how these alternatives compare on the capabilities you actually use day to day.

Feature Cyso Cloud STACKIT T Cloud Public (formerly Open Telekom Cloud) Intility Thalassa Cloud Cleura Hetzner Stackscale Aruba Cloud OVHcloud Scaleway IONOS
Dedicated / bare-metal No No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Object storage (S3) Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Managed Kubernetes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Managed databases Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes
GPU instances No Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Hourly billing Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
API / Terraform Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Countries 2 countries 2 countries 2 countries 2 countries 1 countries 2 countries 4 countries 3 countries 6 countries 9 countries 3 countries 5 countries
WHAT YOU'RE LEAVING
What are you leaving behind with Microsoft Azure?

Listed for transparency. Every product on this page is benchmarked against this baseline.

Microsoft Azure US-incorporated

Microsoft-owned cloud platform. Direct CLOUD Act exposure regardless of EU region.

US-based
OWNERSHIP
US-OWNED
CLOUD ACT
DIRECT
HOSTING
Likely AWS · US
SCHREMS II
Default SCC + supp.
METHODOLOGY

How we verified each row above.

For every product we read the public DPA, sub-processors document, hosting region declaration, and corporate ownership records. Each is timestamped. Signals are editorial, re-verified quarterly. We never accept self-attestation.

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