# Where to host a web app in Italy in 2026

Last updated: 2026-11-10

If your servers must sit physically in Italy, **Aruba** and **Seeweb** are Italian companies running their own data centres in the country, and **OVHcloud** and **Scaleway** offer Milan regions from France. If you'd rather push code than manage servers and EU hosting is enough, **Eurobase** deploys from Git to European infrastructure for a flat monthly price, though it has no Italian location. AWS, Google Cloud and Azure also have Italian regions, under US parent companies.

Start by deciding which of the two you actually need: servers in Italy, or an EU provider for an Italian business. GDPR doesn't require personal data to stay inside Italy, so many teams only need the second.

## Hosting options for Italy at a glance

| Platform | Company | Italian locations | Starts at | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aruba | Aruba S.p.A., Ponte San Pietro, Italy | Arezzo, Bergamo, Rome | VPS from €2.49 a month + VAT | Servers and VPS run by an Italian company |
| Seeweb | Seeweb srl, Italy | Milan, Frosinone | Cloud server from €0.019 an hour | Hourly cloud servers in Milan or Frosinone |
| OVHcloud | French group | Milan, three availability zones | Not stated | A full public cloud with a Milan region |
| Scaleway | French provider | Milan | Free tier, then billed by use | Containers that scale to zero, in Milan |
| Eurobase | Warsaw, Poland | None, European infrastructure | Free, then €10 a month + VAT | Git-to-production hosting without servers |
| AWS, Google Cloud, Azure | US companies | Milan, plus Turin for Google | Billed by use | Teams already on a hyperscaler |

Prices are from each provider's own page, checked on 9 and 10 November 2026.

## What to check before you pick

- **Location or company.** A Milan region keeps data and latency local, but the contract may still be with a US group. If a customer asks for an EU business, read the company name on the terms.
- **Who operates the servers.** An Italian or French provider can still rely on subprocessors elsewhere. Ask for the list.
- **How much you want to run yourself.** A VPS gives you a machine to patch and back up. A platform builds and runs the app for you.
- **Public sector work.** Italian administrations may only buy cloud services qualified by ACN, the national cybersecurity agency, at the level their data needs. [ACN cloud qualification](/i/acn-italy-cloud-qualification) explains the levels.
- **Databases.** If you need managed Postgres or MySQL in Italy, check that the provider offers it in an Italian location, not just elsewhere in Europe.

## 1. Aruba

Aruba is an Italian company based in Ponte San Pietro, near Bergamo. Its data centre network lists two sites in Arezzo, one in Bergamo and one in Rome, plus Prague, Paris, Frankfurt, London and Warsaw. Beyond VPS and dedicated servers, it sells OpenStack cloud servers, managed Kubernetes, a container registry, object storage and a database service.

- **Best for:** Italian businesses that want servers in Italian data centres owned by an Italian provider.
- **Price:** cloud VPS from €2.49 a month + VAT. A 2 vCPU, 4 GB VPS is €6.29 a month + VAT.
- **What it lacks:** a Git-to-production workflow on the VPS. You install, update and back up the stack yourself.

ACN's catalogue lists Aruba Virtual Private Cloud and Aruba Hosted Private Cloud at level 3, which matters if you sell to Italian public bodies.

## 2. Seeweb

Seeweb is an Italian provider, part of the Dominion Hosting Holding group, offering IT services since 1998. It owns four data centres in Milan and Frosinone and also lists sites in Sofia and Lugano. Shared-CPU cloud servers can be started in Frosinone, Milan, Lugano or Zurich, and it also sells a Kubernetes service and Cloud DB with MySQL or PostgreSQL.

- **Best for:** teams that want hourly cloud servers in an Italian data centre, with a managed database from the same provider.
- **Price:** a shared-CPU cloud server with 1 GB RAM, 1 core and 20 GB SSD costs €0.019 an hour, with discounts up to 20% for 3 to 12 month reservations. Cloud DB starts at €0.083 an hour for 2 cores and 4 GB RAM.
- **What it lacks:** a build step for your code. A cloud server is a bare machine, so the build and release process is yours to set up.

## 3. OVHcloud

OVHcloud is a French group whose public cloud includes a Milan region spread over three availability zones, listed as eu-south-mil. Its catalogue covers instances, managed Kubernetes, object storage and managed databases.

- **Best for:** teams that want a large European public cloud with an Italian region and room to grow.

OVH srl's Public Cloud, Dedicated Server and Hosted Private Cloud appear in ACN's catalogue at level 2.

## 4. Scaleway

Scaleway is a French cloud provider. Its Serverless Containers take an image you've built and run it in Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw or Milan, scaling from zero to 200 instances.

- **Best for:** developers who already package their app as a container and want to pay only while it runs.
- **Price:** 400,000 GB-s of memory and 200,000 vCPU-s free each month, then €0.20 per 100,000 GB-s and €1 per 100,000 vCPU-s.
- **What it lacks:** building from your repository. You produce the image and set up the deployment yourself.

## 5. Eurobase

Eurobase is a hosting platform that deploys apps straight from GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Forgejo or Gitea. Next.js, Astro, Nuxt and similar frameworks run on V8 isolates, and servers in Node.js, Python, Go, Java, Ruby, PHP and .NET run as containers. An MCP server and a CLI let coding agents ship for you.

It doesn't offer a location in Italy. Apps run on European infrastructure run by Scaleway, a French provider, and the company is a business registered in Warsaw, Poland. If your contract only asks for EU hosting by an EU business, that covers it; if it names Italy, pick one of the options above.

- **Best for:** Italian teams and agencies who want to ship from Git with no servers to look after, at a known monthly price.
- **Price:** a Free plan, then Starter at €10 and Pro at €20 a month + VAT for the whole workspace. There are no usage charges today: work over a limit is refused, apps on V8 isolates and Functions stop until the monthly reset, and containers and static sites keep serving.
- **What it lacks:** an Italian location, preview deployments, managed Postgres, MySQL or Redis, and Dockerfile builds. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 are still being worked on and aren't held yet.

## 6. AWS, Google Cloud and Azure

All three US hyperscalers have regions in Italy. AWS runs its Milan region, eu-south-1, with three availability zones, which you must enable in your account before use because it opened after March 2019. Google Cloud has europe-west8 in Milan and europe-west12 in Turin. Azure lists Italy North in Milan, with three availability zones.

- **Best for:** teams whose stack already runs on one of the three and who need an Italian region.
- **Price:** billed by use, per service.
- **What it lacks:** an EU parent company. The data can stay in Milan or Turin while the provider is still a US group, which [EU region vs EU company](/i/eu-region-vs-eu-company-cloud-act) covers in detail.

## How to choose

- Choose **Aruba** for low-cost VPS or private cloud in Italian data centres from an Italian company.
- Choose **Seeweb** for hourly servers in Milan or Frosinone, with MySQL or PostgreSQL on its Cloud DB.
- Choose **OVHcloud** for a broad public cloud with a Milan region.
- Choose **Scaleway** to run containers in Milan and pay only while they run.
- Choose **Eurobase** when EU hosting is the requirement and you'd rather deploy from Git than manage servers.
- Choose **AWS, Google Cloud or Azure** if your stack already lives there and an Italian region is enough.

## Frequently asked questions

### Does GDPR require my app's data to be stored in Italy?

No. GDPR treats the EU as one area for personal data, so storing it in another EU country is allowed. Rules for specific buyers can still ask for more: Italian public bodies follow ACN's cloud regulation, and private contracts sometimes name a country. The [GDPR hosting checklist](/i/gdpr-hosting-checklist) lists what to verify.

### Which cloud providers have data centres in Italy?

Aruba has sites in Arezzo, Bergamo and Rome, and Seeweb in Milan and Frosinone. OVHcloud, Scaleway, AWS and Azure have Milan regions, and Google Cloud has Milan and Turin.

### Can I host a Next.js app in Italy without running a server?

Scaleway runs it as a serverless container in Milan if you build the image. Eurobase deploys Next.js from Git without an image or a server, but on European infrastructure rather than in Italy. [Next.js hosting in Europe](/i/nextjs-hosting-europe) compares more options.

### Is a Milan region on AWS the same as an Italian provider?

No. The servers are in Milan, but you contract with a US company. If an Italian or EU provider is a requirement, look at Aruba, Seeweb, OVHcloud or Scaleway.

### What do I need to host apps for the Italian public administration?

A cloud service qualified by ACN at the level that matches the data's classification. Aruba and OVHcloud have qualified services; Eurobase isn't qualified. The [ACN qualification guide](/i/acn-italy-cloud-qualification) explains how it works.

## Sources

- [Aruba Cloud data centre network](https://www.arubacloud.com/why-choose-aruba/datacenter), [Aruba Cloud VPS](https://www.arubacloud.com/vps/) and [Aruba sovereign cloud](https://www.arubacloud.com/solutions/sovereign-cloud/)
- [Seeweb](https://www.seeweb.it/en), [Seeweb about us](https://www.seeweb.it/en/company/about-us), [Seeweb Cloud Server Shared CPU](https://www.seeweb.it/en/products/cloud-server-shared-cpu) and [Seeweb Cloud DB](https://www.seeweb.it/en/products/cloud-db)
- [OVHcloud regions and availability zones](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/about-us/global-infrastructure/expansion-regions-az/)
- [Scaleway Serverless Containers](https://www.scaleway.com/en/serverless-containers/) and [Scaleway serverless pricing](https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/serverless/)
- [AWS Regions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-infrastructure/latest/regions/aws-regions.html), [Google Cloud regions and zones](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones) and [Azure regions list](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-list)
- [ACN open data on cloud services](https://www.acn.gov.it/portale/open-data-servizi-cloud)
- [Eurobase pricing](/pricing), [Eurobase plans](/docs/plans), [host a web app in the EU](/docs/guides/host-in-the-eu) and [Eurobase subprocessors](/legal/subprocessors)