OVHcloud
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Access a leading European cloud with full data sovereignty. Utilize powerful AI and GPU solutions on a sustainable, cost-effective platform. Over 80 services.
French cloud computing company offering dedicated servers, VPS, web hosting, and public cloud infrastructure across European data centers.
OVHcloud is Europe's flagship cloud infrastructure provider — founded in Roubaix, France in 1999 and now operating 46 data centres across 4 continents serving 1.6 million customers. It's Europe's most credible answer to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, combining sovereign infrastructure, open standards, and aggressively competitive pricing.
OVHcloud holds SecNumCloud certification — France's highest cloud security standard — alongside GDPR compliance and multiple international frameworks. The platform runs on one of the world's most energy-efficient data centre designs, with 7× less water usage than competitors and a PUE of 1.24.
Key features:
- Public cloud — compute, object/block/file storage, managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
- Kubernetes and container orchestration
- AI & ML — AI Endpoints, AI Training, AI Notebooks, managed model hosting
- Private cloud — VMware, Nutanix, and SAP HANA on dedicated or shared infrastructure
- Bare metal — Kimsufi, Advance, Game, Scale, High Grade tiers
- VPS — from €5.52/month with transparent pricing
- Web hosting — shared hosting, managed WordPress, email, VoIP
- Domains — ~900 TLDs available through ICANN-accredited registrar
- Data sovereignty — "your data is not sold, used, or transferred" without consent
- No egress fees — reversible cloud with open standards
Scale: 1.6M customers, 46 data centres, 100 Tbit/s global network, 44 redundant points of presence. SecNumCloud, GDPR, and ISO 27001 certified. The go-to European alternative to AWS, Azure, and GCP for sovereign cloud.
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