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Clever Cloud launches Clever Kubernetes Engine (CKE) in public beta on April 27, 2026
Previewed at Devoxx starting April 22, CKE is the culmination of two years of R&D built around a complete reimplementation of Kubernetes.
The DEEP, OVHcloud and Clever Cloud consortium selected to deliver sovereign cloud services for European institutions
Paris – April 17, 2026 – The consortium composed of DEEP by POST Luxembourg Group, OVHcloud and Clever Cloud today announces its selection by the European Commission as part of a major procurement framework to provide sovereign cloud services to the institutions, bodies and agencies of the European Union. This contract, with a ceiling of €180 million over six years, marks a significant milestone in the concrete implementation of Europe’s digital sovereignty strategy.
What makes Clever Cloud unique
Most cloud platforms ask you to pick a lane. Serverless with hard limits on memory, execution time, and payload size. Containers locked to a single hyperscaler with databases resold from third parties. Or raw infrastructure where you manage everything yourself.
OpenTofu: the open-source Terraform fork — natively supported on Clever Cloud
In August 2023, HashiCorp changed Terraform's license. A few weeks later, OpenTofu
was born under the Linux Foundation. Here's what it means — and how to use it
with the Clever Cloud provider.
How We Deployed a Vinext Application in Minutes on Clever Cloud with AI
Cloudflare has just announced Vinext, a drop-in replacement for Next.js built on Vite. The project is vibecoded, experimental, but the promise is compelling: builds up to 4x faster, bundles 57% lighter, and 94% coverage of the Next.js API. We wanted to see how easy it would be to deploy it on Clever Cloud.
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What makes Clever Cloud unique
Most cloud platforms ask you to pick a lane. Serverless with hard limits on memory, execution time, and payload size. Containers locked to a single hyperscaler with databases resold from third parties. Or raw infrastructure where you manage everything yourself.
How We Deployed a Vinext Application in Minutes on Clever Cloud with AI
Cloudflare has just announced Vinext, a drop-in replacement for Next.js built on Vite. The project is vibecoded, experimental, but the promise is compelling: builds up to 4x faster, bundles 57% lighter, and 94% coverage of the Next.js API. We wanted to see how easy it would be to deploy it on Clever Cloud.
Otoroshi 17.9 is here: discover mailer, Swagger UI, zip site, llms.txt, workflows
Since last year, we have been offering our customers a simplified deployment of Otoroshi, an API Gateway that meets these needs and many more. Now that version 17.9 is available, let’s explore some of its lesser-known features and new additions.
What’s new on Clever Cloud, Q4 2025
As the end of the year approaches, it is time to look back at the new features we have rolled out for our customers since the summer. The platform has continued to improve, supported, as always, by new initiatives and growth in emerging areas.
Deploy your PHP applications effortlessly with FrankenPHP on Clever Cloud
This year, PHP will celebrate its 30th anniversary. This ecosystem, which has grown and evolved alongside the web over time, has constantly reinvented itself. At Clever Cloud, it is one of the most popular runtimes, as it is the second most deployed after Node.js/Bun.
Deploy your applications with Bun effortlessly on Clever Cloud
Bun revolutionizes the JavaScript ecosystem with its excellent performance, native TypeScript handling, and all-in-one approach. This open source alternative to Node.js/npm is gaining popularity among developers. We've streamlined its usage on Clever Cloud.
What’s new on Clever Cloud, Q2 2025
Last February, we held the Clever Cloud Fest, two days of meetings and exchanges, punctuated by the announcement of 11 new products. However, it's one thing to talk about innovations, and quite another to bring them to life for our customers.
PostgreSQL 16 and 17 available on Clever Cloud, migrate effortlessly
After upgrading our infrastructure and working hard over the last year to improve the quality of our service and accelerate new product releases, we're delighted to announce the availability of PostgreSQL 16 and 17 on Clever Cloud.
Clever Cloud announces 11 new products at its Clever Cloud Fest
Clever Cloud is celebrating its 15th anniversary with the Clever Cloud Fest on 6 and 7 February 2025 in Nantes. This event will bring together customers and partners, during which Clever Cloud will unveil 11 new products and an international growth strategy.
What is Clever AI?
AI services are everywhere, but the sheer number and diversity of them makes it harder for developers to manage them. All the more so when they work in a team. That's why we came up with Clever AI: a multi-vendor, multi-model range of solutions to simplify access to AI for businesses.
Create your own MCP client/server: as easy as 1-2-3 with Otoroshi
While Otoroshi with LLM already allows you to simplify the management of your various AI providers, access to models and integration with your teams, we have added simplified management of MCP clients and servers.
Clever Tools: a year of enhancements for your deployments, on the road to v4
A command line interface (CLI) is at the core of developer experience. At Clever Cloud, we have been providing Clever Tools for almost 10 years.
Otoroshi with LLM: simplify your API and AI service management on Clever Cloud
Your applications and services are evolving in an increasingly complex environment, requiring effective management of APIs and interactions with artificial intelligence models such as the very popular LLMs (Large Language Models).
Markitdown-as-a-Service: from AI to production on Clever Cloud
Every day, new tools are released, AI brings new perspectives, you have new ideas. It's one of Clever Cloud's missions to help you to develop and test them in real-life conditions, effortlessly, before making them available to everyone.
Metabase on Clever Cloud: easily query and visualize your data
Your business generates data, which you need to analyse, understand and make available to your teams, both technical and non-technical. To meet this need, we worked with David Sferruzza to integrate Metabase for the cloud, which is available on our Marketplace and can be easily deployed on Clever Cloud.
Azimutt on Clever Cloud: easily view and manage your SQL databases
Simply creating databases is great, but being able to explore, analyze and manage them in a user-friendly interface is even better. With this in mind, we worked with Loïc Knuchel to integrate Azimutt on Clever Cloud.
FrankenPHP, sessions in Materia KV, lifecycle: what will change in PHP on Clever Cloud
Since the first week of the year, we've delivered. There have been many new features on Clever Cloud, some more visible than others.
A minor update resulted in a cascade of errors: how it went wrong, what we’ve learnt
On Friday, August 2nd, 2024 Clever Cloud’s platform became very unstable, leading to downtime of varying duration and scope, for customers using services on the EU-FR-1 (PAR) region, and remote zones depending on the EU-FR-1 control plane (OVHcloud, Scaleway, and Oracle). Privates and on-premise zones weren’t impacted.
Materia KV: our easy-to-use serverless key-value database is available to all
Clever Cloud was born out of a desire to make life easier for developers, by providing them automation tools and interfaces, so that they can concentrate on their applications and sites.
Materia KV, Functions: discover the future of Clever Cloud at Devoxx Paris 2024
Clever Cloud is proud to present its new range of serverless products: Materia!