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Ask HN: EU/GDPR Compliant Postgres Hosting

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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)?

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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.

Hey! Thanks for mentioning us :) I work at Ubicloud. Our PostgreSQL service is hosted in Hetzner Falkenstein, Germany. I am also proud to say that our PostgreSQL team is probably one of the best in the industry having built Heroku PG, CitusData, Crunchy Bridge, Azure Databases for PostgreSQL.

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

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.

Check out the list at https://www.eucloud.tech/eu-providers/managed-databases

Digital Ocean have hosted Postgres databases located in Europe.

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).

Hetzner!

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.

Azure have also been completely breached multiple times in the last 12 months though. :(

If you want to make an American cloud provider salesman talk very fast and visibly annoyed, mention slowly "schrems 2".

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