The rule of law is a fundamental principle from the Mesopotanian Code Ur-Nammu, through Magna Carta to International Criminal Court’s decisiion to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternatives. Data sovereignty requires certainty that services will never be terminated or at the mastery of a governmental body. For this reason I find it useful to have a list of European and UK sovereign cloud providers and a comparison of their services. I will do my best to keep this updated.
European & UK sovereign cloud providers
Certifications, data centre locations, services & indicative pricing — updated May 2026
| Provider | Certifications | DC locations | Key services | EU SEAL | Compute/hr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | ||||||
| Civo | 🇬🇧 | ISO 27001 SOC 2 Type II Cyber Essentials+ G-Cloud | London, UK sovereign regions | K8s (native), IaaS, AI/GPU, Object Storage | — | ~£0.03 |
| Hyve | 🇬🇧 | ISO 27001 ISO 27017 PCI DSS | London, Manchester | Private Cloud, VPC, Dedicated, Managed Hosting | — | ~£0.05 |
| Memset | 🇬🇧 | ISO 27001 G-Cloud | UK (2 DCs) | IaaS, Private Cloud, Object Storage, Backup | — | ~£0.04 |
| 🇫🇷 France | ||||||
| 3DS Outscale | 🇫🇷 | SecNumCloud 3.2 ISO 27001 HDS | Paris (2 regions) | IaaS, GPU, K8s, Object Storage | — | ~€0.05 |
| OVHcloud | 🇫🇷 | SecNumCloud 3.2 ISO 27001 HDS SOC 1/2 | Gravelines, Strasbourg, Roubaix, London, Frankfurt, Warsaw | IaaS, PaaS, K8s, Bare Metal, AI, Storage | SEAL-3 | ~€0.03 |
| S3NS (Thales) | 🇫🇷 | SecNumCloud 3.2 ISO 27001 | Paris | IaaS, PaaS, CaaS (Google Cloud stack) | SEAL-2* | ~€0.06 |
| Cloud Temple | 🇫🇷 | SecNumCloud 3.2 ISO 27001 HDS | Paris (2 AZ) | IaaS, PaaS, Backup, DRaaS | — | ~€0.05 |
| Scaleway | 🇫🇷 | ISO 27001 HDS SecNumCloud (in progress) | Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw | IaaS, K8s, AI/GPU, Serverless, Object Storage | SEAL-3 | ~€0.03 |
| Clever Cloud | 🇫🇷 | ISO 27001 HDS | Paris, Roubaix, Warsaw, Montreal | PaaS, Managed DBs, Add-ons | SEAL-3* | ~€0.04 |
| Scalingo | 🇫🇷 | SecNumCloud 3.2 (via Outscale) ISO 27001 HDS | Paris (on Outscale infra) | PaaS, Managed DBs | — | ~€0.04 |
| 🇩🇪 Germany | ||||||
| StackIT | 🇩🇪 | BSI C5 Type 2 ISO 27001 SOC 2 | Germany (Schwarz Group DCs) | IaaS, K8s, Object Storage, Managed DBs | SEAL-3 | ~€0.04 |
| Hetzner | 🇩🇪 | BSI C5 Type 2 ISO 27001 | Nuremberg, Falkenstein, Helsinki | IaaS, Bare Metal, K8s, Object Storage | — | ~€0.01 |
| IONOS | 🇩🇪 | ISO 27001 BSI C5 | Berlin, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, London, Madrid | IaaS, K8s, Managed DBs, S3 Storage | — | ~€0.02 |
| Open Telekom Cloud | 🇩🇪 | BSI C5 Type 2 ISO 27001 SOC 1/2 | Germany (2 AZ), Netherlands | IaaS, PaaS, AI, Big Data, K8s | — | ~€0.04 |
| 🇨🇭 Switzerland | ||||||
| Infomaniak | 🇨🇭 | ISO 27001 ISO 14001 | Geneva, Winterthur | IaaS, K8s, Object Storage, Mail, Collaboration | — | ~€0.03 |
| Exoscale | 🇨🇭 | ISO 27001 | Zurich, Geneva, Vienna, Frankfurt, Sofia, Munich | IaaS, K8s, DBaaS, DNS, Object Storage | — | ~€0.04 |
| Other EU | ||||||
| UpCloud | 🇫🇮 | ISO 27001 SOC 2 | Helsinki, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Singapore | IaaS, K8s, Managed DBs, Object Storage | — | ~€0.03 |
| Leaseweb | 🇳🇱 | ISO 27001 PCI DSS | Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Sydney, Singapore | IaaS, Bare Metal, CDN, Private Cloud | — | ~€0.03 |
| Elastx | 🇸🇪 | ISO 27001 ISO 14001 | Stockholm (3 AZ) | IaaS (OpenStack), K8s, DBaaS, Object Storage | — | ~€0.04 |
| Proximus / TeleCloud | 🇧🇪 | ISO 27001 | Belgium | IaaS, PaaS, Managed Services | SEAL-2 | ~€0.05 |
Compute pricing is approximate for a standard 2 vCPU / 8 GB VM equivalent. EU SEAL levels from the April 2026 European Commission sovereign cloud procurement. UK providers are not eligible for EU SEAL or SecNumCloud but hold UK-specific certifications. * = consortium member.
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