The state of European cloud providers in 2026
The state of European cloud providers in 2026
2026年欧洲云服务商现状
Recently I went on the hunt for a new server provider for my personal use. I have been getting on quite well with an old laptop shoved into my utility closet and Tailscale for some years now, but now there are some things I would like to be accessible outside my VPN. With the situation outside looking like it does, I figured it would be prudent to look for an European cloud provider. Plus, it is always nice to support the home team. The EU has been very loudly proclaiming the need for a “sovereign cloud” for quite some time now, so it will be interesting to see what progress has been made here.
最近，我开始为个人使用寻找新的服务器提供商。过去几年里，我一直用一台塞在杂物间里的旧笔记本电脑配合 Tailscale 运行得还不错，但现在我有一些服务希望能在 VPN 之外访问。考虑到目前的外部环境，我觉得寻找一家欧洲云服务商会更稳妥。此外，支持本土企业总是一件好事。欧盟已经大声疾呼需要“主权云”很长一段时间了，所以看看这里取得了什么进展会很有趣。
The list below reflects my personal opinion and experiences. I attempted to be as accurate as I could be. However, keep in mind you are reading a random dude’s ramblings online, so take them with an appropriately sized grain of salt.
以下列表反映了我的个人观点和经验。我已尽力确保准确性。不过，请记住你正在阅读的是网上一个路人的随笔，所以请带着审慎的态度阅读。
The methodology
方法论
This will not be a serious and rigorous competition - I am just one guy with limited time, so the choices should reflect that. I will take a look at pricing, spin up a server, test out its CPU and network, and then assess how easy that was and what I got for my money. I will also take a cursory look at the rest of a platform’s offerings to see how easy would it be to scale an app on it by adding things like object storage or a managed database. Last but not least, the management console (user interface) should work reliably and not shit itself during the most basic of operations.
这不会是一场严肃且严谨的竞赛——我只是一个时间有限的普通人，所以选择会反映这一点。我将查看价格，启动一台服务器，测试其 CPU 和网络，然后评估操作的难易程度以及性价比。我还会粗略浏览该平台的其他产品，看看通过添加对象存储或托管数据库等功能来扩展应用是否容易。最后但同样重要的是，管理控制台（用户界面）必须运行稳定，不能在最基本的操作中崩溃。
Since getting one core of an Intel Atom is not the same as getting one core of a Threadripper even though they can both be billed as “1 vCPU”, I will be looking at which actual CPU is allocated to a VM, which will also give you some idea of the performance you can expect. In addition, I opted to run Geekbench on the servers as a quick way of getting across how powerful they are, relative to each other. Geekbench is a synthetic benchmark that is not necessarily representative of what you would run on a server and you have every right to clown on me for running it, but that would have been the case for any benchmark I opted for and at least Geekbench tell you roughly how much more (or less) one CPU can handle than another. Swap was added if necessary.
由于 Intel Atom 的一个核心与 Threadripper 的一个核心完全不同，尽管它们都可以被称为“1 vCPU”，我将查看分配给虚拟机的实际 CPU 型号，这能让你对预期的性能有个概念。此外，我选择在服务器上运行 Geekbench，作为一种快速了解它们之间性能差异的方法。Geekbench 是一个合成基准测试，并不一定代表你在服务器上运行的实际负载，你有权嘲笑我使用它，但无论我选择哪种基准测试都会面临同样的问题，至少 Geekbench 能大致告诉你一个 CPU 比另一个强（或弱）多少。必要时我会添加 Swap 分区。
Besides the above, I also want to have hourly billing - I do not trust providers that want to lock you into a month (or longer) commitment without being able to trial the product. It is 2026: if you can provision a VM instantly, you can also decommission it instantly and prorate my subscription based on how much I actually used it. Other things I am looking for are (sadly) an IPv4 allocation, and a reasonable traffic allotment that will not leave me holding the bag if a rogue OpenAI crawler gets stuck in an infinite loop.
除了上述内容，我还要求按小时计费——我不信任那些在无法试用产品的情况下就强迫你签订一个月（或更久）合约的提供商。现在是 2026 年：如果你能即时配置虚拟机，你也应该能即时销毁它，并根据我的实际使用量按比例扣费。我关注的其他事项还包括（遗憾的是）IPv4 分配，以及合理的流量配额，这样当某个流氓 OpenAI 爬虫陷入死循环时，我不至于背负巨额账单。
I will try to evaluate two tiers: a 10€ budget and a 20€ budget. This is roughly the amount I consider expendable for a subscription. The budget tier will feature the provider’s “cost-conscious” lineup, usually with older, or straight up old, components. The high-roller tier will feature the provider’s standard line-up where possible, with the expectation that I will still get a shared CPU rather than dedicated resources. In practice both of these tiers can usually be specced up depending on whether you prefer multiple slower cores with more, but slower, RAM or fewer faster cores with less, but faster, RAM. All prices are excluding VAT as VAT differs per country. Growing up means understanding Americans maybe had a point with this one. Lastly, no referral links will be provided.
我将尝试评估两个档次：10 欧元预算和 20 欧元预算。这大致是我认为可以用于订阅的支出。预算档次将涵盖提供商的“成本导向”系列，通常使用较旧甚至非常陈旧的组件。高阶档次将尽可能涵盖提供商的标准系列，预期仍是共享 CPU 而非独占资源。实际上，这两个档次通常都可以根据你的偏好进行配置，比如你是喜欢多个较慢的核心配更多但较慢的内存，还是较少但较快的核心配较少但较快的内存。所有价格均不含增值税，因为各国增值税税率不同。长大意味着我开始理解美国人在这一点上或许是对的。最后，本文不提供任何推荐链接。
The competition
竞争对手
Before going into the EU clouds, here are some of the more known American providers for comparison. 在进入欧洲云服务商之前，这里有一些更知名的美国提供商供参考。
Vultr: The budget option (1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM) will run you 8,60 € per month. The high-roller option (2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM) costs 15,48 € per month. Vultr says the latter tier is for “high performance VMs” which are “powered by latest generation Intel Xeon CPUs or AMD EPYC CPUs”, and what you actually get is a 7 year old AMD EPYC processor.
Vultr： 预算选项（1 vCPU，2 GB 内存）每月需 8.60 欧元。高阶选项（2 vCPUs，2 GB 内存）每月需 15.48 欧元。Vultr 声称后者是“高性能虚拟机”，由“最新一代 Intel Xeon 或 AMD EPYC CPU 驱动”，但你实际拿到的是一颗 7 年前的 AMD EPYC 处理器。
DigitalOcean: The budget option (1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM) costs 10,32€ per month. If you want to splurge on the high-roller option (2 vCPUs, 2 GB RAM) will cost 18,06 € per month. DigitalOcean’s Premium AMD option is the same CPU as Vultr’s and at a higher price, but at least they make no claims about its recency.
DigitalOcean： 预算选项（1 vCPU，2 GB 内存）每月需 10.32 欧元。如果你想在高阶选项（2 vCPUs，2 GB 内存）上挥霍，则每月需 18.06 欧元。DigitalOcean 的 Premium AMD 选项使用的 CPU 与 Vultr 相同，价格更高，但至少他们没有吹嘘其时效性。
RamNode: For the budget option (1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM) you will only need to part with 2,58 € per month, as long as you do not mind the lack of IPv4 connectivity. Even the high-roller (2 vCPUs / 2 GB RAM) option is affordable at 12,04 €. I could not test out what exact CPU this is because my registration to the “cloud portal” did not go through.
RamNode： 预算选项（1 vCPU / 2 GB 内存）每月仅需 2.58 欧元，只要你不介意没有 IPv4 连接。即使是高阶选项（2 vCPUs / 2 GB 内存）也只需 12.04 欧元，非常实惠。我无法测试其具体 CPU 型号，因为我的“云门户”注册一直无法通过。
Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Azure: Speaking from experience, one needs a doctorate in each to not shoot themselves in the foot, and differential equations to figure out the true cost of a service in advance. I actually rather enjoy building on Google Cloud, just not with my own money. The prices on all these platforms go vertical once you are out of the stingy free tiers.
Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Azure： 根据经验，你需要在这三家平台上分别拥有博士学位才能避免踩坑，还需要微分方程知识才能提前算出服务的真实成本。我其实挺喜欢在 Google Cloud 上构建应用，只是不想花自己的钱。一旦超出吝啬的免费额度，这些平台的价格就会直线飙升。
I will also establish some sort of a baseline for Geekbench: My desktop PC, with an undervolted Ryzen 9 9900X, scores 3009 in single-core and 21030 in multi-core performance. The Lenovo notebook I bought in 2020, which is currently my “home server”, has a Ryzen 7 4700U which scores 1570 in single-core and 5658 in multi-core. I paid roughy 450€ for it, which comes out to around 6,25€ per month as of today.
我还将为 Geekbench 建立一个基准：我的台式机（搭载降压后的 Ryzen 9 9900X）单核得分为 3009，多核得分为 21030。我 2020 年购买的联想笔记本电脑目前作为我的“家庭服务器”，搭载 Ryzen 7 4700U，单核得分 1570，多核得分 5658。我当时花了大约 450 欧元，折合到今天每月成本约为 6.25 欧元。
With that out of the way we can get on to the list. I scoured several lists that showed up when searching for “european cloud providers”, and in no particular order, here are…
言归正传，让我们开始列表。我搜索了“欧洲云服务商”后出现的几个列表，以下是（排名不分先后）……
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Hetzner 🇩🇪 这家久负盛名且经济实惠的德国主机商无需多做介绍，但它似乎遇到了严重的容量问题，因为我能买到的唯一“成本优化”型 VPS 只有基础的 CX23 配置（2 vCPU / 4 GB 内存 / 40 GB SSD），且仅在赫尔辛基数据中心有货。加上 IPv4 分配，每月费用约为 6 欧元。在这个价格下，你只能期待性能稍显迟缓的 Skyla…