A common worry about a European alternative is that you trade sovereignty for functionality. It doesn’t have to be true. On Kepler you build on proven, open building blocks — and keep portability as part of the deal.
The building blocks
- Virtual machines — launch compute in a range of sizes, from a simple service to heavy workloads.
- Block storage — persistent, encrypted storage that follows your instances.
- Networking — your own private networks, firewalls and routing per tenant.
- Containers and Kubernetes — run orchestrated workloads on top of the same isolated project.
Open standards all the way
Because the foundation is OpenStack and open tooling, you’ll feel at home immediately if you come from another cloud. Terraform, standard APIs and common container tools work as you’d expect — no learning wall, no proprietary lock-in.
Sovereignty should be an addition to what you can do, not a subtraction.
— from Kepler’s product principles
Portable from the start
Everything you build can be exported as code. That lets you start small, grow into more advanced setups and always have a way out if you need one. Get started with a running VM before you pay a cent.