OVHcloud Launches 3-AZ Berlin Region to Boost EU Cloud Resilience

OVHcloud has expanded its European footprint with the launch of a new three-Availability Zone cloud region in Berlin, reinforcing Germany’s position as a strategic hub for sovereign and resilient cloud infrastructure. The move makes Berlin the company’s third European region built on a 3-AZ architecture, following earlier deployments in Paris and Milan.

It also signals the acceleration of OVHcloud’s long-term plan to provide European public institutions and highly regulated industries with cloud capacity designed for autonomy, compliance, and high availability.

For OVHcloud, headquartered in France and among the world’s largest cloud providers by footprint, the Berlin region is part of a broader effort to meet the rising demand for digital transformation solutions that satisfy both operational and regulatory expectations.

European businesses, national agencies, and city governments have been intensifying their scrutiny of infrastructure providers as cloud adoption increases and workloads tied to AI, cybersecurity, payments, and critical systems continue migrating off-premises. According to the company, the new Berlin region is specifically engineered to support workloads that cannot tolerate service interruption, data jurisdiction risk, or single-zone dependencies.

OVHcloud’s presence in Germany dates back nearly two decades. The company already operates two data centers in the country and serves a mix of major commercial and public-sector organizations, including Commerz Real, IT service provider ITSC, Germany’s Federal Employment Agency, and the Federal Police. By adding a full 3-AZ region, OVHcloud aims to strengthen its role as a cloud alternative built around European governance principles and infrastructure transparency.

Founder and CEO Octave Klaba framed the new region as both a technical milestone and a strategic positioning statement. He noted that European digital sovereignty – an increasingly common priority for policymakers and industry leaders – depends not on isolated national champions but on cloud providers capable of operating at meaningful international scale. The Berlin cloud region, Klaba said, represents another essential building block for a cloud ecosystem aligned with European values on data protection, infrastructure resilience, and operational independence.

Three-AZ design has become an important differentiator for cloud operators serving mission-critical industries. Each region is composed of three geographically separated Availability Zones, located tens of kilometers apart and engineered with independent power sources, cooling systems, and network paths. This model would reduce the risk of correlated failures and enables organizations to build cluster architectures and disaster recovery strategies that remain functional even if one or more zones experience disruption. For sectors such as finance, energy, healthcare, or public administration – where downtime or data unavailability can have systemic consequences – the architecture is quickly becoming a requirement rather than a benchmark, according to OVHcloud.

The Berlin deployment is expected to support more than 80 OVHcloud services across compute, storage, networking, security, and managed cloud solutions as the region matures. The company indicates it will continue prioritizing similar high-redundancy deployment models across Europe, with plans for additional 3-AZ regions in other cities over the coming years.

As sovereign cloud initiatives gain traction across the continent, providers capable of offering policy-aligned regions within EU borders are seeing increased demand. Organizations evaluating multi-cloud or diversification strategies are also paying closer attention to latency considerations, jurisdictional requirements, and the resilience of specific regional architectures. By establishing a 3-AZ region in Berlin – close to major fiber backbones, public institutions, and large enterprise campuses – OVHcloud aims to position itself as one of the core platforms powering Europe’s next phase of digital modernization. 

Executive Insights FAQ: Why Cloud Regions Matter

Why can 3-Availability Zone regions be important for enterprises?

They minimize the risk of service disruption by distributing workloads across independent zones. This architecture is becoming essential for regulated industries that require strong uptime guarantees and robust disaster recovery capabilities.

How do cloud regions influence digital sovereignty goals?

Running data and workloads within specific geographic borders helps meet regulatory, compliance, and national-policy requirements. Regions built and operated by providers headquartered within the same jurisdiction strengthen accountability and governance alignment.

What advantages does a local-region deployment offer over hosting in a single global region?

Local regions reduce latency, simplify data-residency management, and improve resilience. They also help organizations avoid cross-border data transfers, which can introduce legal and operational complexity.

How does a multi-region strategy support disaster recovery?

Enterprises can architect active-active or active-passive failover between regions. This enables continuity even in cases of large-scale regional incidents, not just isolated zone failures.

Why are cloud regions becoming more important as AI adoption grows?

AI workloads create heavier dependencies on data throughput, compute availability, and regulatory compliance. Regions designed for high availability and low latency allow AI inference and training pipelines to run more reliably and within required legal boundaries.