Aruba Cloud is the cloud division of Aruba S.p.A., Italy's largest privately-held cloud and web-services group, founded in 1994 and headquartered in Ponte San Pietro (BG), Italy (P.IVA 01573850516, C.F. 04552920482). The company operates proprietary infrastructure across four Italian data centres: IT1 and IT2 in Arezzo (the unique twin-DC configuration only a few kilometres apart that enables low-latency redundancy), IT3 in Bergamo (the flagship Global Cloud Data Centre campus), and IT4 in Rome. IT1 carries the highest Rating 4 ANSI/TIA-942-C-2024 data-centre certification.
Compliance posture is among the strongest in Europe for Italian public-sector procurement. Aruba Cloud is qualified by Italy's ACN (Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale / National Cybersecurity Agency) at the AI3 level for infrastructure and QC3 level for services, the qualifications required by the Italian Public Administration (PA) to host critical and strategic data. Certifications include ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 27035, and ISO 9001 at the management-system level. The company is a CISPE Code of Conduct signatory (the European cloud-infrastructure association founded explicitly around GDPR alignment), DORA-compliant for EU financial-services operational resilience, and NIS 2-compliant. The product is a VMware Pinnacle Partner (the highest VMware partnership tier) and offers data-sovereignty positioning under the explicit promise that "your data stays in Italy." Aruba S.p.A. also operates the .it domain registry, giving it deep ties to Italian internet infrastructure.
The product surface covers bare metal, VPS, public cloud compute, VMware cloud, object storage, and managed services. Pricing is highly competitive: Cloud Server Pro starts from roughly €1/month for the smallest entry tier (the headline "Cloud Server PRO from €1/month" offer is a long-running positioning). Best fit: Italian SMBs, agencies, the entire Italian public-sector procurement chain (ACN-qualified workloads), VMware shops in Italy and Southern Europe, regulated industries (financial services post-DORA), and any EU buyer needing geographic diversity from DACH-clustered alternatives. Together with Hetzner (DE), OVHcloud (FR), Scaleway (FR), IONOS (DE), UpCloud (FI), STACKIT (DE), Cleura (SE), Exoscale (CH), T Cloud Public (DE), and Stackscale (ES), Aruba Cloud completes the 11-vendor procurement-grade EU hyperscaler-alternative shortlist.