Nebul vs AWS AI
Nebul is a European alternative to AWS AI — same other use case, built under EU data-protection law.
By the EU Alternatives team Last updated
- Jurisdiction
- EU / EEA
- GDPR by default
- Yes
- US CLOUD Act exposure
- No
- Open source
- No
- Free tier
- No
AWS AI — a non-EU product.
- Jurisdiction
- US
- GDPR by default
- Requires DPA + TIA
- US CLOUD Act exposure
- Yes
About Nebul
Nebul is a Dutch private AI platform providing sovereign GPU cloud and a European AI Factory for fine-tuning, serving, and governing large language models. It targets enterprises and public institutions that need NVIDIA-grade AI infrastructure without handing data or model weights to US hyperscalers.
The platform combines an AI Studio for data retrieval, observability, and security with an AI Engine covering model libraries, serverless and dedicated inference, fine-tuning, and training on NVIDIA Supercompute. Customers can pull from a curated catalogue including Nemotron 3 Super 120B or run their own proprietary models on dedicated GPU clusters.
Key benefits:
- NVIDIA Elite Partner instant access to Supercompute GPUs and clusters
- AI Studio tailoring, observability, retrieval, and guardrails
- Serverless and dedicated inference flexible deployment for any scale
- Fine-tuning and training bring your own data to open-weight models
- Sovereign by design European infrastructure with full customer control
Nebul is headquartered in the Netherlands and operates across a broad European footprint, positioning itself as "the European Hyperscale Cloud" under the motto "from Europe, by Europe, for Europe." The platform is aligned with GDPR and EU sovereignty requirements, and Nebul joined the Open Cloud Alliance to advance digital sovereignty initiatives across the continent.
Recognised as a 2025 Gartner Cool Vendor in AI Specialty Cloud Providers, Nebul offers European enterprises a credible sovereign alternative to AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and Google Vertex AI when running regulated or strategic AI workloads.
Why choose Nebul over AWS AI?
The decisive argument is data jurisdiction. AWS AI is headquartered in US, which means personal data processed through it can be subject to non-EU legal regimes — the US CLOUD Act, FISA 702, or similar laws depending on the provider. After the 2020 Schrems II ruling, EU organisations must carry out a transfer impact assessment for every such data flow.
Nebul removes that overhead. As a Netherlands-based provider, it operates natively under GDPR, and data stays inside the EU/EEA by default. For regulated sectors — health, public administration, finance — that's not a nice-to-have but a requirement. For everyone else, it's concentration-risk insurance: you avoid depending on a single non-EU jurisdiction that can change the rules without warning.