# The European Cloud Situation at the end of 2025

DevFeed: [The European Cloud Situation at the end of 2025](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-european-cloud-situation-at-the-end-of-2025-36556.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-european-cloud-2025/>)

Published: 2025-12-23T10:20:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Bert Hubert's writings](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bert-hubert-s-writings.md>)

Topics: [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hosting.md>), [Microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microsoft.md>)

Tags: [2025](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2025.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [europe](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/europe.md>), [eurostack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/eurostack.md>), [hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hosting.md>), [microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microsoft.md>), [services](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/services.md>)

## AI overview

This article reviews Europe's cloud situation at the end of 2025. It argues that awareness and policy proposals have advanced, but industry buyers, governments, and European cloud providers have not provided clear leadership. It also discusses concerns about US cloud services, European data protection, sovereign-cloud claims, and the possible role of regulators and financial institutions.

## Source excerpt

As the year draws to an end now is a good time to review where we are with Europe's cloud situation, and what has been achieved. One thing is certain, a lot has happened, and also quite a lot has become clearer. tl;dr: Great strides have been made in 2025, especially in convincing people that something must be done, and outlining what that might be. Industry buyers are not going to lead us since they mostly care about next quarter's results.