Cleura

Cleura is a Swedish cloud-infrastructure provider operated by Cleura AB (formerly City Network), now part of Iver Sverige AB — the Swedish IT-services group that engages Iver as a sub-processor across all Cleura Public Cloud and Compliant Cloud regions (as confirmed in an April 2026 sub-processors update). With more than 20 years of operation, Cleura runs one of the largest OpenStack-based public cloud footprints in Europe and is an OpenInfra Foundation Gold Member; the company holds AAA credit rating and ships three deployment models — Public Cloud, Compliant Cloud (mission-critical workloads), and Private Cloud — all OpenStack-based with full API interoperability and an explicit anti-lock-in posture. Compliance and sovereignty are the entire pitch. Cleura's Public Cloud is deployed in multiple ISO 27001-certified Tier-III data centres in Europe; the Compliant Cloud tier additionally carries ISO 27017 and 27018 certifications and is positioned for regulated workloads. The company is ISO 9001 and 14001 certified at the management-system level, and emphatically markets itself as "not dependent on an unstable adequacy decision and not subject to US extraterritorial surveillance laws" — a direct contrast positioning against AWS/Azure/GCP. Data residency is EU/EEA-only across regions in Sweden and Germany. As of the April 2026 update, all sub-processors are EU-based (Iver Sverige AB is the parent sub-processor reference). Pricing is per-second monitored, hourly calculated, monthly billed, with per-vCore-hour configurations for Generic CPU and High-Intensity CPU instance classes; specific entry-tier figures were not captured at audit. Best fit: Swedish and Nordic enterprises, regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, public sector), OpenStack-fluent engineering teams that want anti-lock-in infrastructure, and EU buyers needing Compliant Cloud-grade isolation. Together with Hetzner, OVHcloud, Scaleway, IONOS, UpCloud, and STACKIT, Cleura completes the European hyperscaler-alternative shortlist for procurement-grade EU buyers.