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EU-Compliant Cloud Providers for GDPR-Sensitive Workloads, 2026
Survey of cloud providers operating data centers in the EU under EU jurisdiction, with notes on Schrems II considerations, sovereign clouds, and pricing relative to AWS / GCP.
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TL;DR
- Hetzner Cloud (Germany) — best price/performance for general-purpose workloads. €4–€60/mo VPS tiers; ISO 27001 + GDPR-aligned by default. No US ownership.
- Scaleway (France) — strongest sovereign-cloud positioning; SecNumCloud-qualified offering for sensitive public-sector workloads. Slightly pricier than Hetzner.
- OVHcloud (France) — broadest catalog (bare metal, dedicated GPU, Kubernetes, sovereign cloud). Good if you need bare metal at scale.
- UpCloud (Finland) — fast-disk reputation; smaller catalog but strong for I/O-heavy workloads.
- Exoscale (Switzerland) — Swiss jurisdiction, useful if you want to be outside both EU and US legal exposure.
- IONOS Cloud (Germany) — corporate-friendly, integrated billing, used in regulated industries.
What "EU-compliant" actually means in 2026
Three layers:
- Data residency — physical servers in EU member states. All providers above offer this; verify the specific data center location at provisioning time.
- Operator jurisdiction — the legal entity running the service is…
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