EU Cloud Comparison Matrix

EU Cloud Comparison | European Cloud Feature Matrix
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Compute (VPS / VMs) 9
Shared vCPU instances	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dedicated vCPU instances	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
ARM64 instances	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Bare metal servers	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Spot / preemptible instances	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Autoscaling groups	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Partial: Via K8s engine only	No	Yes
Custom machine types	Partial: Fixed SKUs, no arbitrary vCPU/RAM	Partial: Limited D-series flex sizes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
VM snapshots	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
GPU instances	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
K8S & Containers 7
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Free control plane	No	Partial: Free tier, paid for uptime SLA	Partial: Free for first zonal cluster per account	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Managed node pools	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Cluster autoscaler	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Serverless containers	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Managed container registry	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Multi-AZ clusters	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial: Available in select regions only	No	Partial: Single-region HA, not cross-region	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Serverless & Events 6
Functions-as-a-Service	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial: Via OVHcloud Functions, early access	No	Partial: FastEdge (edge runtime), not full FaaS	No	No	No	Yes
Edge functions	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Event bus	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Message queue service	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Workflow orchestration	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Managed cron / scheduled jobs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Object Storage 7
S3-compatible API	Yes	No	Partial: XML API is S3-like, not drop-in	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Object versioning	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Lifecycle policies	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Archive / cold tier	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Multi-region replication	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Server-side encryption	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Static website hosting	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Block & File Storage 7
SSD volumes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
NVMe / high-IOPS volumes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
HDD / capacity volumes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Volume snapshots	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Volume encryption at rest	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Managed NFS / shared FS	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Managed SMB file shares	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Managed Databases 11
PostgreSQL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
MySQL / MariaDB	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Redis / Valkey	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
MongoDB	Partial: DocumentDB, MongoDB-compatible not native	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Kafka	Yes	Partial: Event Hubs (Kafka-compatible protocol)	Partial: Via Managed Service for Apache Kafka (preview)	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
OpenSearch / Elasticsearch	Yes	Partial: Elastic Cloud via Marketplace	Partial: Via Marketplace partners only	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
Vector database	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
ClickHouse / analytical	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
HA with auto-failover	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Point-in-time recovery	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Read replicas	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial: Postgres only	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
AI / ML 5
Hosted AI Inference	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Partial: ModelArts inference, no public model API
Embeddings API	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Fine-tuning	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Training platform	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Managed vector DB	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Networking 10
VPC / private network	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
IPv6 support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial: Dual-stack in select regions	Partial: Dual-stack, rolling out	Yes	Yes
Layer-4 load balancer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Layer-7 load balancer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Web application firewall	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Partial: Via Web Cloud add-on, not on Public Cloud	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
DDoS protection	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial: Basic only, no managed service	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Floating / elastic IPs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Private service endpoints	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Partial: Private interconnect on request	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Managed DNS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Anycast DNS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Partial: Regional anycast, limited PoPs	Yes	Yes
CDN & Edge 7
CDN product	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial: Edge Services (beta), limited PoPs	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
DDoS protection (edge)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Image optimization	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Edge compute / workers	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Custom SSL certificates	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
HTTP/3 + QUIC	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Partial: HTTP/3 on CDN only, not LB
Video streaming platform	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Security & Identity 8
IAM with roles / policies	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SSO / SAML federation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
MFA	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Key management service (KMS)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Partial: BYOK via HashiCorp Vault integration	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Secrets manager	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
HSM-backed keys	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Audit / activity logs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Private service endpoints	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Partial: Via private interconnect	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Regions & Compliance 5
Number of regions	33	60+	40	3	14	11	14	8	2	6	3
Number of EU regions	6	10+	10+	3	8	6	10+	6	2	3	2
HQ / parent in EU	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
ISO/IEC 27001	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SOC 2	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes

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