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robert_dipaolo | 11 months ago

Is OVH not a European cloud provider? There are also smaller players like Hetzner.

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sam_lowry_|11 months ago

Hetzner is not small, I would say it's several times bigger than OVH in turnover, but this is just a guess based on their perceived markets and market share in those markets.

The cloud offered by Hetzner is the perfect sweet spot for me, but the vast majority of IT crowd and non-IT decision makers in EU want AWS-like.

But all EU alternatives that mimick AWS will be worse than the alternative.

Pretty much like wvery MS Word copycat was worse... until Google Docs shifted the paradygm.

TiredOfLife|11 months ago

OVH is larger. They occasionally burn down a datacenter or two and are still going.

paulccci|11 months ago

Hetzner had revenues of €470m in 2022 (last available). It was €866m for OVH over the same period.

Source: S&P CapitalIQ

realusername|11 months ago

They try hard to brand themselves as a cloud provider but I'd say that they mostly are a VPS provider.

The cloud side isn't polished enough to pretend to be a cloud provider.

danielscrubs|11 months ago

I wouldn’t describe Google nor Microsofts products as ”polished”. Humongous maybe?

blablabla123|11 months ago

Meanwhile AWS' popularity was largely driven by EC2 servers which are VPS.

Also they are literally called OVHcloud...

rsynnott|11 months ago

> The cloud side isn't polished enough to pretend to be a cloud provider.

I mean, see Azure and Google Cloud a few years back. For quite a while the market was AWS, and also some joke services which nobody who wasn't required to used (notoriously, in 2012 Azure was substantially entirely down for _over a day_ due to a leap day).

apexalpha|11 months ago

OVH and Hertzner sell lumber, people want furniture.

invaliduser|11 months ago

OVH (french) is very well known and I like them a lot. Used them for domains a lot, because they are very cheap and their management is nice. I also like very much ScaleWay (french also) for price and quality of service, have used them for years on my startup, can highly recommend. Also heard a lot of good things about Infomaniak (swiss), but never used them myself.

Would love to hear about european cloud providers with comments from users.