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📣 alexzeitler

EU/GDPR Compliant Postgres Hosting


With the announced shutdown of ElephantSQL (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928049) what are good EU/GDPR compliant Postgres hosting options (no AWS/Azure/GCP)?


  👤 justinclift Accepted Answer ✓
How much data is being stored, how actively is it used, and what kind of budget do you have? :)

Maybe take a look at UbiCloud?

https://www.ubicloud.com/use-cases/postgresql

Their website says they're hosted at Hetzner, though it doesn't mention which country. Hetzner is mostly located in EU, but does have a data centre in the US these days too.

Note - I'm not a customer of theirs, so don't really know them.


👤 derfabianpeter
Hey, you should check out https://www.ayedo.de - german company, own datacenters, but also able to provide managed services on top of HETZNER.

👤 speedgoose
I understand you want a fully managed PostgreSQL from a major European cloud provider and not having to to an apt install or similar.

Scaleway. https://www.scaleway.com/en/database/

OVH (perhaps do some backups on your own in addition to them). https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/postgresql/

Hetzner doesn’t seem to provide such a service. They do have some managed PostgreSQL databases part of their web hosting service, but I’m not sure they expose them.

Otherwise most contracting companies will gladly "manage" such a database for you.


👤 jeremiahlee

👤 aosaigh
Digital Ocean have hosted Postgres databases located in Europe.

👤 rozenmd
It's interesting that you exclude the top 3 vendors that EU customers tend to automatically trust when you say you use them (in my experience, anyway - I wouldn't even put toy projects in GCP these days).

👤 rrr_oh_man
Hetzner!

👤 colinb
I see that you exclude Azure. Are you dead set against Microsoft? I’m not a customer but my spouse is and she tells me that they definitely support GDPR/EU-only data centres. They’re used in this way by more than one EU civil service.