OVHcloud Public Cloud Instances

OVHcloud Public Cloud Instances are hourly virtual machines run by OVHcloud, the French hosting group, on its own datacentres across Europe and beyond. Instances come in general-purpose, CPU-optimised, memory-optimised and GPU flavours, with block storage, private networks, security groups and load balancers alongside.

It is the broadest European IaaS catalogue: Windows Server can be licensed by the hour, there are managed Kubernetes and managed database services, an IAM layer, and two 3-availability-zone regions, in Paris and Milan. Its other European regions — Gravelines, Roubaix, Strasbourg, Frankfurt, Warsaw and London — are single-zone. Terraform and an OpenStack-compatible API drive it from code.

The gaps against the US hyperscalers are the surrounding platform rather than the compute: no directory service with the reach of Entra ID, no hybrid-estate management layer, and no enterprise agreement that discounts an existing software stack.

The operating company is OVH SAS, a société par actions simplifiée with EUR 50,000,000 of capital at 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, RCS Lille Métropole 424 761 419, VAT FR 22 424 761 419. It is a subsidiary of OVH Groupe SA, RCS Lille 537 407 926, the listed holding company at the same address, registered in October 2011 under the holding NAF code 64.20Z. Octave Klaba founded the business in 1999 and the French register records him as chairman of the board and chief executive; Henryk and Miroslaw Klaba also sit on it.

Family control is not in doubt. At 5 December 2025 the Klaba family — Henryk, Octave, Miroslaw and Halina, plus entities they control — held 79.0% of the capital and 79.6% of the voting rights; employees, executives and directors held 1.8%, treasury shares 0.8%, and the free float 18.4% of 151,651,536 shares. The group reported EUR 1,085 million of revenue and EUR 438 million of adjusted EBITDA for FY2025, with 1.6 million customers and around 3,000 employees, and guides to 5-7% like-for-like growth for FY2026.

OVHcloud designs and manufactures its own servers and builds its own data centres, a vertical integration it credits for its price-performance, and it cools them with water of its own design. It counts 46 data centres on four continents, roughly 500,000 servers, 31 Local Zones, 44 redundant points of presence and 100 Tbps of backbone capacity, with a network of 150 mini-datacentres planned by the end of 2027. Its Bare Metal Pod, SecNumCloud Private Cloud and SNC Cloud Platform carry the SecNumCloud qualification from ANSSI, the French state’s highest cloud trust level, which is the thing no American hyperscaler can offer a French public buyer.