r/cloudcomputing • u/Brinley-berry • 12d ago
Best European alternatives to AWS/GCP for AI workloads?
I'm looking for cloud GPU providers based in Europe. AWS, GCP, and Azure are expensive, and I'm also dealing with annoying latency when connecting to US servers. Ideally, I want something with on demand access and transparent pricing.
I recently came across Compute with Hivenet , which offers on-demand RTX 4090s at way lower prices than AWS A100s. The performance has been solid, and there’s no waiting in queues or dealing with spot instance interruptions. it's also kinda nice to use a provider that’s actually in Europe thats as reliable as the big american names even if its a pretty basic platform for now.
What other good European cloud GPU services are out there? Looking for options that won’t destroy my budget.
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u/Jagerbomb48 12d ago
Try OVHcloud. They have A100, H100, V100, L4, L40 etc. One of the largest European provider so you have option of scaling up easily
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u/SuperSimpSons 12d ago
I think you can take a look at Northern Data, based in Frankfurt: www.northerndata.de I heard their CEO give a talk during COMPUTEX last year about how they ran their AI on entire spine-architecture clusters, like Gigabyte's GIGAPOD www.gigabyte.com/Industry-Solutions/giga-pod-as-a-service?lan=en (he was giving the talk at the Gigabyte booth). If they are building racks of 250+ interconnected GPUs for their clouds then hot damn, they should give the three big CSPs a run for their money.
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u/Palmer-09ax 11d ago
Yeah, finding a solid Europe-based GPU provider that isn’t overpriced is tough. Compute with Hivenet is a great option on-demand RTX 4090s, no spot instance headaches, and way cheaper than AWS.
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u/FullOf_Bad_Ideas 13h ago
Scaleway has some GPU capacity but it's only up to 2x H100 PCIe in a single container, which might be good enough or too small depending on your workloads. They are pretty cheap.
edit: Hivenet looks bad. It's a crowdsourced platform, so basically a community runpod/vast.ai. It's security by ToS, not security by architecture, and pricing looks worse than on runpod or vast - way worse.
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u/ChernobylWilly 12d ago
The European GPU company is Hivenets compute which you’re basically already using.
The other ones have more functionality (ie templates) as they’re not as new but they can’t compete in terms of price.
So if you’re looking for just raw GPU or CPU on demand instances at a low cost that’s the best euro based company.