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Canadian alternatives to Google Cloud
Google Cloud: Google Cloud offers Canadian storage, but you have to choose it, and it may depend on your plan. It is owned by a US company, so the US CLOUD Act can require it to produce data it controls, wherever that data is stored.
Canadian end to end
Canadian-owned, data stored in Canada, and no US company running the infrastructure underneath.
VPS, dedicated servers, managed cloud
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes
- Owner
- iDigital Internet Inc. (Vancouver, BC)
- Servers run by
- Vendor-operated Vancouver and Toronto data centres · Not a US company
Also sells PHIPA-oriented compliance hosting.
KVM virtual machines and block storage
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes
- Owner
- LunaNode, a Canadian cloud hosting company founded 2013
- Servers run by
- LunaNode-operated servers in a Toronto data centre · Not a US company
Low-cost Canadian VMs; the base for at least one Canadian PaaS (MapleDeploy).
Managed Coolify platform (git-push deploys and one-click databases)
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes
- Owner
- Lawrence Digital (Ontario), sole proprietorship; wholly Canadian-owned
- Servers run by
- LunaNode (Canadian-owned) · Not a US company
A Canadian alternative to Vercel, Heroku and Render for small apps. DNS runs through Bunny.net (EU).
Cirrus sovereign cloud
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes
- Owner
- Micrologic Inc. (Québec); investors include Desjardins Capital, BDC Capital and Investissement Québec
- Servers run by
- Micrologic Cirrus platform in Québec data centres (QScale partnership) · Not a US company
Positions Cirrus for Law 25 and PIPEDA compliance.
Canadian Sovereign Cloud (VMware-based IaaS; backup; archive)
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes
- Owner
- Think On Inc. (Toronto, ON)
- Servers run by
- ThinkOn-operated infrastructure in Canadian data centres · Not a US company
Sold through channel partners. Built Canada's Sovereign AI Platform infrastructure under an SSC contract (ThinkOn).
OpenStack public cloud, Kubernetes, bare metal
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes, if you choose it
- Owner
- VEXXHOST, Inc. (Montréal, QC), describes itself as Canadian-owned
- Servers run by
- VEXXHOST-operated OpenStack regions · Not a US company
Pick the Montréal region; its Santa Clara region is in the US.
Not US-owned, data in Canada
Owned outside Canada and the United States, with data stored in Canada.
Public cloud and bare metal
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes, if you choose it
- Owner
- OVH Groupe SA (Roubaix, France)
- Servers run by
- OVHcloud-owned data centres; Beauharnois also assembles its North American servers · Not a US company
The main non-US hyperscale-style option with Canadian regions. Not US-owned, but not Canadian-owned either.
If storage in Canada is enough
These are US-owned but can keep data in Canada. They meet most storage rules; they do not meet an ownership test.
AWS (EC2 / S3 / Lambda and others)
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes, if you choose it
- Owner
- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (Seattle, WA); Canadian contracting entity Amazon Web Services Canada, Inc.
- Servers run by
- AWS-owned data centres · US company
Most-used cloud under Canadian SaaS vendors; picking a Canadian region keeps data at rest in Canada but the parent is a US company.
Droplets and managed services
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes, if you choose it
- Owner
- DigitalOcean, LLC (Broomfield, CO)
- Servers run by
- DigitalOcean datacenters · US company
Azure
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes, if you choose it
- Owner
- Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA)
- Servers run by
- Microsoft-owned data centres · US company
Federal departments' largest cloud supplier; GC framework agreement since 2019 (Microsoft).
OCI
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes, if you choose it
- Owner
- Oracle Corporation (Austin, TX)
- Servers run by
- Oracle data centres · US company
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