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Independently verified · Quarterly re-audit
EU VETTED
Alternatives to

European alternatives to Microsoft Azure.

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

ALTERNATIVES
11
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.

T Cloud Public (formerly Open Telekom Cloud)
Germany · Founded 2016
EU-SOVEREIGN
★ #1 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
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
Intility
Norway · Founded 2000
EU-HOSTED
★ #3 PICK

Norwegian managed enterprise-cloud platform (est. 2000), own platform colocated in Oslo, NO/SE data residency, ISO 27001 + ISAE 3402/3000; enterprise quote-based, no public pricing.

Public DPA Sub-processors Open source
FROM
CLOUD ACT
MATERIAL
SIDE-BY-SIDE

How do the 11 European alternatives to Microsoft Azure compare?

All 11 alternatives, benchmarked against Microsoft Azure.

Feature comparison

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

Feature T Cloud Public (formerly Open Telekom Cloud) STACKIT Intility IONOS Hetzner Stackscale Aruba Cloud Thalassa Cloud Cleura OVHcloud Scaleway
Dedicated / bare-metal Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Object storage (S3) Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Managed Kubernetes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Managed databases Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
GPU instances Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Hourly billing Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
API / Terraform Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Countries 2 countries 2 countries 2 countries 5 countries 4 countries 3 countries 6 countries 1 countries 2 countries 9 countries 3 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.

Reviewed by the EU Vetted editorial team · Editorial guidelines

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