--- canonical: https://enum.co/guides locale: en --- ### Guides - [Choosing European managed Kubernetes: a decision guide by team situation](https://enum.co/guides/choosing-european-managed-kubernetes) (updated 2026-10-09) Which European managed Kubernetes fits depends on your team, not on a ranking. A small team without a platform engineer, a regulated buyer facing a security review, a cost-driven team and a public-sector supplier each need something different from IONOS, OVHcloud, Scaleway, Exoscale, STACKIT, T Cloud Public, Hetzner or enum. - [Replacing EKS, AKS or GKE in Europe: what moves over and what you rebuild](https://enum.co/guides/eks-aks-gke-alternatives-europe) (updated 2026-10-09) Your Deployments, Services and Helm charts move to a European managed Kubernetes provider largely unchanged; storage classes, ingress, identity and registry settings change. The cloud integrations around the cluster (workload identity, L7 load balancing, registry, autoscaling, managed databases) are where the work is, and this guide maps each one to what STACKIT, OVHcloud, Scaleway, Exoscale, IONOS and enum have today. - [European alternatives to Microsoft Azure: EU data location and EU jurisdiction](https://enum.co/guides/european-alternatives-to-azure) (updated 2026-10-09) Microsoft's EU Data Boundary keeps most Azure data in the EU but leaves Microsoft under US law. This guide maps AKS, Blob Storage, Azure DNS, Load Balancer, Entra ID, Azure SQL and Key Vault to what STACKIT, IONOS, OVHcloud, Scaleway, T Cloud Public and enum offer, names what has no European equivalent, and covers what leaving Azure costs. - [A European alternative to AWS for startups: credits, Kubernetes and what you give up](https://enum.co/guides/european-cloud-for-startups) (updated 2026-10-09) OVHcloud, Scaleway, IONOS, STACKIT, Exoscale and enum compared for a seed or Series A startup: startup program credits, eligibility and duration as stated on each program page, how much platform work each leaves to you, node prices, and what each still lacks next to AWS. - [European alternatives to Route 53, Cloudflare DNS and Google Cloud DNS](https://enum.co/guides/european-dns-alternatives) (updated 2026-10-09) deSEC, Hetzner, IONOS, OVHcloud, bunny.net, Gcore and enum DNS compared with Route 53, Cloudflare and Google Cloud DNS on price, API and Terraform, DNSSEC, anycast and jurisdiction, with the trade-offs of each. - [Storage for Kubernetes on European clouds: block, file and object compared](https://enum.co/guides/kubernetes-storage-europe) (updated 2026-10-09) Which storage to use for Kubernetes workloads on an EU-hosted cloud: CSI block volumes for databases, file storage for ReadWriteMany, S3 object storage for app data and Velero backups. STACKIT, IONOS, OVHcloud, Scaleway, Exoscale and enum compared on CSI driver, storage classes, snapshots, RWX and S3. - [Managed hosting vs. a cloud platform with operations: which one fits your team?](https://enum.co/guides/managed-hosting-vs-cloud-platform) (updated 2026-10-09) Classic managed hosting means a hoster runs your server and stack and you request changes; a cloud platform with an operations team gives your developers self-service deploys plus engineers on call. How the two models differ, when each fits, and how Profihost, IONOS, Hetzner, mittwald, plusserver, secunet cloud and enum compare by model. - [European managed Kubernetes providers compared on sovereignty](https://enum.co/guides/managed-kubernetes-providers-europe-sovereignty) (updated 2026-10-09) A seven-point sovereignty checklist (legal entity, US ties in the group, control plane location, certifications, regions, sub-processors and staff, control plane price) and one table scoring OVHcloud, IONOS, STACKIT, Scaleway, Exoscale, T Cloud Public, Hetzner and enum against it, with every fact linked to a primary source. - [Managed Kubernetes vs. in-house operations: who does what, and what it costs](https://enum.co/guides/managed-kubernetes-vs-in-house) (updated 2026-10-09) Three ways to run production Kubernetes: build it yourself on VMs, rent a managed control plane, or have someone operate production for you. A task-by-task responsibility table and a cost model with the assumptions written out. - [How to migrate from EKS, GKE or AKS to a European managed Kubernetes provider](https://enum.co/guides/migrate-to-european-managed-kubernetes) (updated 2026-10-09) A migration playbook for moving Kubernetes workloads from AWS, Google Cloud or Azure to a European provider: inventory, replacing cloud-specific dependencies, moving S3 data with rclone, egress terms and the EU Data Act, DNS cutover, parallel run, rollback and a typical timeline. - [Outgrown self-run Kubernetes on Hetzner? Stay and harden, switch to a managed control plane, or hand over operations](https://enum.co/guides/outgrowing-hetzner-managed-kubernetes) (updated 2026-10-09) Hetzner is good value and many teams should stay. If the pain is running Kubernetes rather than the servers, there are three ways out: harden the self-run setup with , k3s or Cluster API, buy a managed control plane on Hetzner servers or at another European provider, or have someone run production for you. Signs, options and a decision table. - [How to judge the reliability of managed Kubernetes in Europe](https://enum.co/guides/reliable-managed-kubernetes-europe) (updated 2026-10-09) An SLA percentage tells you little until you know what it measures: the Kubernetes API, your nodes, or your storage. This guide compares the published SLAs of seven European managed Kubernetes offers and lists what to check beyond the number. - [S3-compatible object storage in Europe: providers compared](https://enum.co/guides/s3-compatible-object-storage-europe) (updated 2026-10-09) Eight European S3-compatible object storage providers compared on how they bill storage and egress, versioning, Object Lock, lifecycle rules, presigned URLs, regions, certifications and the company you sign with. Price models and S3 support checked against each provider's own pages.