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Ask HN: 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)?
- derfabianpeter 3y agoHey, you should check out https://www.ayedo.de https://www.ayedo.de - german company, own datacenters, but also able to provide managed services on top of HETZNER.
- justinclift 3y agoHow 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 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.
- furkansahin 3y agoHey! 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.
- colinb 3y agoI 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.
- justinclift 3y agoAzure have also been completely breached multiple times in the last 12 months though. :(
- speedgoose 3y agoIf you want to make an American cloud provider salesman talk very fast and visibly annoyed, mention slowly "schrems 2".
- rrr_oh_man 3y agoHetzner!
- rozenmd 3y agoIt'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).
- jeremiahlee 3y agoCheck out the list at https://www.eucloud.tech/eu-providers/managed-databases https://www.eucloud.tech/eu-providers/managed-databases
- speedgoose 3y agoI 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/ 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/ 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.
- aosaigh 3y agoDigital Ocean have hosted Postgres databases located in Europe.