[chrisboesing]

Here are the AWS alternatives I could find when I was searching for them 2 months ago. They are both hosted in Germany and operated by German companies.

I haven't played with them yet, so I can't say if they are any good.

EC2 alternative: http://jiffybox.de Not as feature rich as EC2, but they do have an api to launch, stop, and resize instances.

S3 alternative: http://www.hosteurope.de/Cloud/Cloud-Storage/ They say it works with S3 compatible desktop software, so I guess it uses a similar/same api.

(I'm on my phone right now and can't find the English versions of the sites, I have linked the German sites instead)

[robotmay]

Brightbox are a UK company with a pretty decent cloud offering: http://brightbox.com