Cloud Service Mapping

Wondering what the European equivalent of your current cloud service is? See how common AWS, Azure, and GCP services map across OVHcloud, Scaleway, STACKIT, IONOS, and Hetzner, so you can start evaluating your options with confidence.

Which cloud are you using now?

All AWS Azure GCP

Which European cloud are you comparing?

All Scaleway OVHcloud StackIT IONOS Hetzner

Service	AWS US	Scaleway FR	OVHcloud FR	StackIT DE	IONOS DE	Hetzner DE
Virtual Machines	EC2	Instances	Public Cloud Instances	Compute Engine	Compute Engine	Cloud Servers
Serverless Functions	Lambda	Serverless Functions	—	—	—	—
Managed Containers	ECS	Serverless Containers	—	—	—	—
Managed Kubernetes	EKS	Kubernetes Kapsule	Managed Kubernetes Service	Kubernetes Engine	Managed Kubernetes	—
Object Storage	S3	Object Storage	Object Storage	Object Storage	Object Storage	Object Storage
Managed Relational Database	RDS	Managed Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL	Managed Databases	PostgreSQL Flex	DBaaS PostgreSQL	—
Key-Value Database	DynamoDB	—	—	—	—	—
Document Database	DocumentDB	Managed MongoDB	Managed MongoDB	MongoDB Flex	DBaaS MongoDB	—
Search Database	OpenSearch Service	—	Managed OpenSearch	OpenSearch	—	—
Data Warehouse	Redshift	—	Data Platform	—	—	—
In-Memory Cache	ElastiCache	Managed Databases for Redis	Managed Databases for Valkey	Redis	In-Memory DB	—
AI Model Inference	Bedrock	Generative APIs	AI Endpoints	AI Model Serving	AI Model Hub	—
Load Balancer	Elastic Load Balancing	Load Balancers	Load Balancer	Load Balancer	Network Load Balancer	Load Balancers
Web Application Firewall and DDoS Protection	WAF / Shield	Edge Services (WAF)	Anti-DDoS Infrastructure	DDoS Protection (included)	DDoS Protection (included)	DDoS Protection (included)
Virtual Private Cloud	VPC	Private Network	Private Network (vRack)	Virtual Network	Private LAN	Networks
Content Delivery Network	CloudFront	Edge Services	CDN Infrastructure	Content Delivery Network	Content Delivery Network	—
Dedicated Network Connection	Direct Connect	InterLink	OVHcloud Connect	Direct Connect	Cross-Connect	—
Monitoring and Logging	CloudWatch	Cockpit	Logs Data Platform	Observability	Monitoring Service	—
Identity and Access Management	IAM	IAM	IAM	Identity Management	Identity & Access Management	—
Secrets and Key Management	Secrets Manager / KMS	Secret Manager, Key Manager	Key Management Service	KMS	—	—
Message Queue	SQS	Queues	—	RabbitMQ	Event Streams for Apache Kafka	—
EU Regions	8 EU regions	3 regions (FR, NL, PL)	6 EU datacentres	2 regions (DE)	4 EU datacentres	3 EU locations

Service names are approximate equivalents. Actual feature parity varies. We help you evaluate the right fit during the audit phase.

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