use-european.tech

First edition in preparation

An independent register of European infrastructure

Every layer of your stack has a European option.

Compute, storage, email delivery, payments, identity, observability: the plumbing your product quietly depends on usually runs on US providers. We’re cataloguing the European alternatives that are built, owned and operated in Europe, and checking each one on jurisdiction and data residency instead of taking the marketing page’s word for it.

§ 1

What counts as European

A flag in the footer isn’t enough. A provider gets into the index when all four of these hold, and the entry says which evidence we checked.

  1. Headquartered in Europe

    Registered and managed in the EU, the EEA, Switzerland or the UK. A sales office in Dublin doesn’t count.

  2. Owned in Europe

    No parent company outside Europe that could be compelled to hand over customer data under the US CLOUD Act or similar laws.

  3. Data stays in Europe

    Stored and processed in European data centres by default, with a published sub-processor list we can read line by line.

  4. Ready for production

    Self-serve sign-up, public pricing, a status page and documentation a developer can actually build against.

§ 2

Questions and answers

What the index is, what it covers and how providers qualify.

What is use-european.tech?

An independent index of European alternatives to US cloud and developer services. It lists infrastructure providers that are built, owned and operated in Europe, and records for each one where it is headquartered, who owns it, where customer data is stored and what it costs.

Which categories will the index cover?

Compute and cloud hosting, object storage, CDN and edge, DNS, transactional email, payments, identity and authentication, web analytics, monitoring and error tracking, managed databases, code hosting and CI, and AI inference. More categories follow after launch.

What makes a provider European?

All four criteria must hold: it is headquartered in the EU, the EEA, Switzerland or the UK; it has no parent company outside Europe; customer data is stored and processed in European data centres by default; and it is ready for production use, with self-serve sign-up, public pricing and documentation.

Why choose a European provider?

Mainly jurisdiction. A provider with a US parent company can be compelled under the US CLOUD Act to hand over customer data, even data stored in EU data centres. European ownership keeps your data under European law, makes GDPR compliance simpler and reduces dependence on a handful of non-European platforms.

When does the index launch?

The first edition is in preparation. Leave your email address above and you get a single email when it opens.