Ask HN: Is there a 'pure' cloud provider?

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.

As you can see, all the players with a global reach are pretty dominant in some industry or another: database software, Chinese e-commerce, and general computing. If you don't need the global reach, though, you get more options.