Which EU Cloud Providers Support Kubernetes? The 2026 List, Prices and Sovereignty Checklist

Eight European providers—OVHcloud, Scaleway, Exoscale, Infomaniak, StackIt, Open Telekom Cloud, UpCloud, and IONOS—offer managed Kubernetes control planes in 2026, while Hetzner supports only self-managed deployments on virtual machines. The services generally support standard Kubernetes workloads, allowing manifests, Helm charts, operators, and CI pipelines to move between providers, although practical migration work remains around IAM, load balancers, storage, DNS, and managed data services. Provider selection depends less on Kubernetes APIs than on regional availability, managed-service breadth, control-plane and egress pricing, Kubernetes version support, storage and networking integrations, and support commitments. The discussion distinguishes sovereignty into legal ownership, physical data and backup location, operational administrative access, and dependencies on external technologies or SaaS, noting that EU data residency alone does not remove exposure associated with a US-owned parent company. European providers can reduce control-plane and especially outbound-data costs compared with hyperscalers, but savings may be offset by weaker managed-service catalogs, fewer GPU and edge options, and additional platform-engineering effort. It recommends validating providers through a pilot that tests conformance, upgrades, autoscaling, storage, load balancing, backups, support, and data-export procedures, while keeping tooling provider-neutral; it also presents Qovery as an optional cloud-agnostic developer platform for preserving deployment and preview-environment workflows on customer-operated clusters.

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