Alternativa apenas UE a Vultr.
Vultr (operated by The Constant Company LLC) is a US-headquartered IaaS with strong global region coverage including Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris, London, Madrid and Stockholm. The EU regions are EU-located, the parent is US-controlled, and the CLOUD Act analysis matches every other US IaaS in this guide. Vultr has carved out a niche on bare metal and GPU offerings, both of which have credible EU sovereign equivalents. The migration is mechanically simple — Vultr's product set is intentionally narrow.
"Região UE" não é soberania. Quatro perguntas decidem.
Residência de dados diz onde os bits ficam. Soberania diz qual sistema jurídico pode forçar o acesso. A resposta tem de valer nos quatro pontos — caso contrário a stack não é soberana.
Onde os dados estão fisicamente armazenados?
Não "na nuvem" — qual datacenter, em qual país, sob qual jurisdição.
Quem mais está no seu caminho de dados?
Cada fornecedor que toca os dados: o CDN, o relay de e-mail, o rastreador de erros, o pipeline de analytics.
Quais leis podem forçar a divulgação?
Um fornecedor com sede nos EUA está sujeito ao FISA 702 e ao CLOUD Act — mesmo quando os dados estão em Frankfurt.
Quem detém realmente as chaves de cifragem?
Se o provedor de nuvem tem tanto os dados quanto as chaves, ele pode lê-los — independentemente de qualquer DPA.
Falha em jurisdição e custódia de chaves.
Bits na UE, casa-mãe nos EUA, subprocessadores americanos no caminho predefinido, chaves geridas pelo fornecedor.
Passa nos quatro.
Hospedado na UE em infraestrutura com sede europeia. Zero subprocessadores americanos no caminho padrão. Chaves do cliente ou de KMS europeu. Nomeados no seu DPA Artigo 28.
Porque é que as equipas estão a sair Vultr
Vultr migrations we have seen come from procurement audits (B2B SaaS or fintech), GDPR DPO reviews flagging Vultr as a US-jurisdictional processor, or — increasingly in 2025–2026 — companies reading their own DPA carefully and realising "Vultr LLC, US" is not a defensible answer to a regulator question. The EU bare-metal alternatives at Hetzner, Leaseweb and OVH are well-established, generally cheaper, and operate under EU law.
Vultr serviços e os seus equivalentes apenas na UE
Uma migração não é "trocar uma caixa por outra". O mapeamento abaixo é o que executamos para clientes que saem de Vultr por motivos Schrems II — plena jurisdição UE, sem casa-mãe US no caminho dos dados.
| Vultr serviço | Alternativa apenas UE | Nota de engenharia |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud Compute | Hetzner Cloud, OVH Public Cloud, Scaleway Instances | Standard VM migration; image rebuild and IP allocation, no application changes for most stacks. |
| Bare Metal | Hetzner dedicated servers, OVH dedicated, Leaseweb dedicated | Hetzner has the strongest bare-metal price/performance in the EU; provisioning typically takes minutes (auction servers) to hours (new builds). |
| Optimized Cloud Compute (CPU-Optimized, Memory, Storage) | Hetzner CCX (CPU-optimized), OVH HG (high-memory), Scaleway POP2 | Each EU provider has equivalent specialised instance families; Hetzner CCX in particular is highly competitive. |
| Object Storage | OVH Object Storage, Wasabi EU, Bunny Storage, MinIO self-hosted | S3-compatible across all options; migration is one config change in your application. |
| VKE (Vultr Kubernetes Engine) | Scaleway Kapsule, OVH Managed Kubernetes, Talos on Hetzner | Managed K8s parity; Helm charts and YAML transfer cleanly. |
| Block Storage | Hetzner Volumes, OVH Block Storage, Scaleway Block Storage | Standard NVMe-backed volumes everywhere. |
| Vultr File Storage (VFS) | OVH NAS-HA, self-hosted NFS or CephFS on EU compute | Shared filesystems are less common in EU managed offerings; self-hosted CephFS or GlusterFS is the standard pattern. |
| Managed Databases | OVH Managed Databases, Aiven, Scaleway Managed DB | PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis equivalents on all options. |
| GPU Instances (NVIDIA H100, A100, L40S) | Hetzner GPU servers, Scaleway H100 instances, OVHcloud GPU | For training and inference, Scaleway and Hetzner have current-generation GPU offerings under EU jurisdiction. |
| Vultr CDN | Bunny.net, KeyCDN | Bunny is the migration target for nearly every CDN exit in this guide. |
| Vultr DNS | Hetzner DNS, Bunny DNS, deSEC | Standard zone migration. |
| Vultr Load Balancer | Hetzner Cloud Load Balancer, OVH Load Balancer, HAProxy self-managed | L4/L7 load balancing on all EU options. |
| Reserved IPs | Hetzner Floating IPs, OVH Failover IPs | All EU providers offer the equivalent failover-IP pattern. |
Como migramos de Vultr
Uma migração típica de mid-market decorre em três fases. Os números abaixo assumem uma equipa de engenharia de 6 a 10 pessoas e uma stack de aplicação moderadamente complexa.
Inventory
List instances, bare-metal nodes, Object Storage buckets, DNS zones. Identify any Vultr API automations to rewrite. Vultr inventories are usually small.
Soft swap
DNS, Object Storage, monitoring moved to EU-jurisdictional alternatives. Database replicas pre-staged. CI/CD updated.
Compute & bare-metal cutover
VMs reprovisioned on Hetzner. Bare-metal workloads moved to Hetzner or Leaseweb dedicated. GPU workloads moved to Scaleway H100. K8s clusters cutover with managed EU K8s.
Vultr-to-EU TCO: typically 30–45% cheaper, with the largest gains on bare metal (Hetzner is ~40% lower per equivalent spec) and GPU (Scaleway H100 hourly pricing is competitive). Egress savings are modest because Vultr has reasonable bandwidth pricing already.
Perguntas frequentes
Vultr has many EU regions — does that solve Schrems II?
No. The Constant Company LLC (Vultr's legal entity) is US-headquartered. The EU regions are operated under US corporate control and subject to the CLOUD Act. Region selection addresses residency only.
How does Hetzner bare metal compare to Vultr bare metal?
Hetzner has roughly 30–50% better price/performance on equivalent specs, particularly on the auction/used-server market. Provisioning is faster on Hetzner Cloud, slower on Hetzner Dedicated (1–24 hours). Vultr's bare metal advantage was historically the global region count; for EU-only workloads, that advantage doesn't apply.
What about GPU workloads — are EU options really competitive?
Yes for current-generation hardware. Scaleway has H100 instances available with EU jurisdiction. Hetzner has consumer/professional GPU servers. OVH has GPU instances including A100. The specific pricing varies but for the H100 generation, Scaleway is often the best EU option. For older generations (V100, T4), Hetzner is often cheaper.
How long does a Vultr migration take?
Typical workload (5–20 instances, some Object Storage, DNS): 2–5 weeks elapsed. With a managed partner driving it: 1–3 weeks. Vultr's product simplicity is a virtue here.
Can we move just the EU-customer-facing workloads?
Yes, this is a common partial pattern. Move EU-customer-facing infrastructure to a sovereign stack, keep Vultr for non-EU traffic. The discipline is to keep personal data of EU subjects strictly on the sovereign side, which often requires data segregation work in the application.
Will the migration cause downtime?
Not when done with proper choreography. Database migration via logical replication, compute via DNS-level traffic shift, object storage via dual-write — all standard zero-downtime patterns.
Planeie a sua saída de Vultr.
Chamada de scoping de 30 minutos. Mapeamos a sua stack contra alternativas apenas UE, estimamos o esforço de migração e dizemos-lhe se é a decisão certa.