The Gap in the Market

There is currently no European cloud provider that can reliably serve medium and large businesses while meeting their legal and operational requirements. As someone who previously led the cloud strategy for a major European corporation, I experienced firsthand how fragmented and risky the landscape is for companies operating under European law.

Legal Complexity and Business Risk

Managing dozens of contracts with US and EU vendors revealed how compliance isn’t built-in. You need a legal team just to stay afloat:

• GDPR, ISO 27001, and BSI Grundschutz aren’t optional—they’re essential.
• Contracts often exceed hundreds of pages.
• Frameworks like Safe Harbor and Privacy Shield have been repeatedly invalidated.

Each change places your company at risk of instant non-compliance. For cloud-dependent organizations, this becomes a business continuity threat.

Infrastructure as a Service is Not a Product

At Plan13 Cloud, we treat IaaS as the technical foundation it is—not a black box.

We offer:

• Consistent compute and storage performance
• Transparent network throughput and latency
• Granular IAM and resource identifiers (URNs)
• Infrastructure tailored to your architecture

You’re not buying a product—you’re subscribing to a service that adapts to you.

Transparency is Not a Trade Secret

We don't believe in hiding information:

• Bring your own image, kernel, or bootloader
• Custom BIOS/UEFI? No problem
• Defaults work for 99%, but you’re not the 99%

We document internals where needed and let you extend our defaults. We’re not gatekeepers—we’re cloud builders.

Accessibility Means Interoperability

Plan13 Cloud fits into your existing workflows with:

• Terraform support
• Powerful CLI and GraphQL API
• SDKs for developers

Plus open interfaces for:

• Tracing (OpenTelemetry)
• Metrics (Prometheus)
• Logs (structured JSON)
• Publishing state changes in real-time

This is infrastructure that works with your ecosystem, not against it.

Why Build It from Scratch?

We didn’t start with OpenStack. We didn’t resell a white-labeled platform.

We built the cloud we wish we had:

• Based on proven tech like Linux KVM
• Written in Rust for speed and safety
• Backed by our own IAM, URN, and control plane

Why? Because what sets us apart couldn’t be bought. So we built it—so you can build on it.