European alternatives to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a US-headquartered provider (Sovereign cloud & hosting); EEA data residency: Partial. For teams weighing European digital sovereignty — European origin and ownership, outside the direct reach of the US CLOUD Act — here are 9 verified European providers covering the same ground.
Who you would be replacing: Amazon Web Services (Seattle, US) - the global cloud hyperscaler most European fintechs actually run on. EU regions exist, but the US parent remains subject to the US CLOUD Act - the reference point of the sovereignty debate. Contrast / US.
EEA data residency: Partial. Licence class in the catalogue: Vendor. Verified profile of Amazon Web Services (AWS) →
9 verified European alternatives
Hetzner (Gunzenhausen, Germany) - German cloud and dedicated-server provider with data centres in Germany and Finland; family-owned, EU-native, price-performance leader.
IONOS (Germany) - German cloud platform (virtual servers, VPC, managed databases, object storage) with an enterprise-oriented model; EU-native jurisdiction.
Open Telekom Cloud (T-Systems / Deutsche Telekom, Germany) - enterprise public cloud operated from German data centres under EU jurisdiction; a sovereign-cloud staple for regulated workloads.
OVHcloud (Roubaix, France; founded 1999) - Europe's largest cloud provider: 3-availability-zone regions in Paris, Milan and Berlin, EU legal jurisdiction end-to-end - explicitly outside the reach of the US CLOUD Act. The default sovereign choice for EEA data residency.
Scaleway (Paris, France; Iliad Group) - French cloud provider with data centres in France, the Netherlands and Poland; EU-native, no US parent, no CLOUD Act exposure.
StackIT (Germany; the cloud brand of Schwarz Digits, backed by the Schwarz Group - Europe's largest retailer) - German business cloud built for sovereignty-sensitive enterprise workloads.
UpCloud (Helsinki, Finland; founded 2011) - Finnish cloud provider with European data centres; EU-native alternative for developer-centric infrastructure.
Aruba (Bergamo/Arezzo, Italy) - Italy's largest hosting and cloud provider with Italian data centres, and a qualified trust service provider (ArubaPEC, on the AgID/EU Trusted List): qualified e-signatures, certified e-mail (PEC), SPID digital identity - plus one of Italy's biggest e-invoicing services. EU-jurisdiction stack across cloud, identity and invoicing.
Exoscale (Lausanne, Switzerland; subsidiary of A1 Digital / Telekom Austria Group) - European cloud with zones incl. Vienna and Swiss/EU locations, positioned on data privacy and European sovereignty. NB: Swiss HQ (outside EEA); Austrian telecoms parent.
FAQ
Which European providers cover the same products as Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
Fintechnologica lists 9 verified European providers that share Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s product categories (Sovereign cloud & hosting). They are ordered by verified overlap - product categories first, then licence class, MiCA authorisation and documented capabilities, European-origin first - so the order is a relevance filter, not a quality ranking. Which one fits depends on your markets, licence model and volumes; a match request answers that with three named providers.
Are these alternatives fully European / EEA-based?
Each provider shows its origin and EEA data-residency status (Yes / Partial / No). European origin means the company's HQ and lineage are European; the EEA flag reflects where data and the operating rail actually sit. Both are shown so you can judge sovereignty for your own requirements.
How are these verified?
Every provider is verified at source: licence type, regulator and a registry reference - not a marketing page. That is the depth G2 and Capterra don't provide.