Clever Cloud is a French Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider founded in Nantes in 2010. It automates the deployment, scaling and operation of web applications across most major languages and frameworks, with managed databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis), the S3-compatible Cellar object storage, and per-second pay-as-you-go billing that starts at roughly €4.80/month for the smallest runtime. Provisioning works through the console, a CLI, the API and an official Terraform provider, and organisations get SSO and activity logging.
For sovereignty-conscious buyers, the decisive point is the operating model: Clever Cloud is a wholly French-owned, bootstrapped SAS, and its core regions run on European infrastructure — Paris, Roubaix and a dedicated Gravelines HDS region on OVHcloud, plus a London availability zone on IONOS. Keeping a deployment in the French regions means data and the sub-processor chain stay in the EU, with no CLOUD Act exposure. The platform holds ISO 27001:2022 and HDS (French health-data hosting) certification, publishes a DPA, and is pursuing SecNumCloud qualification on its own infrastructure.
In April 2026 the consortium of DEEP (POST Luxembourg), OVHcloud and Clever Cloud was selected by the European Commission under the €180M Cloud III sovereign-cloud framework, with Clever Cloud supplying the PaaS, container and managed-services orchestration layer. That makes it a credible European answer to Heroku, Vercel and the application layers of AWS and Google Cloud for teams that want EU residency without operational overhead.