[walligator]

I'm using OVH and scaleway which both are cloud pure-players and offer much better pricing than the companies you mentioned.

OVH is the 1st European cloud provider (300k servers, 3.8M domain names registered ...) and are providing cloud services to major organisations, with a wealth of products and soon a managed Kubernetes service.

Scaleway is a much newer cloud provider backed by Online.net, a fairly big hosting company, which is itself part of Iliad (a major ISP in France and expanding to the rest of the world). Their managed K8S service is going to be released this year too. Their specificity is to offer ARM architectures at a very low price tag.

I'd check these 2 out as they offer different levels of services which should make you happy whether you want to create a small cluster for development or to a large scale-production grade one.

[feeblebee]

We checked OVH already and of course their pricing is great, but the managing software felt a bit dusty (was it OpenStack?). What is your experience here and in terms of stability? The support in our case was always fast though.

Thanks for mentioning scaleway! It would be nice if they could offer some bigger servers than 'just' 128GB RAM for my use case. But will definitely explore them.