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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.
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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.
Engineering

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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Clever Cloud to be heard by the National Assembly’s Law Committee in the context of the bill on securing Digital Public Procurement

Nantes, 16 February 2026 – Clever Cloud is honoured to be heard on 20 February 2026 before the Law Committee of the French National Assembly as part of the examination of Bill No. 2258 on securing digital public procurement, adopted by the Senate.
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Clever Cloud Position Paper –  Revision of the EU Public Procurement Rules

Unlocking European Innovation and Sovereignty: From Rules to Results: Europe’s Procurement Triad
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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.
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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.
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Clever Cloud welcomes the first startups to the UP Programme

Clever Cloud is proud to announce the arrival of the first five startups selected to join its UP Programme, an initiative dedicated to supporting young technology companies in their growth phase.
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Incident

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.
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Clever Cloud, the Heroku Alternative Designed for Europe

Heroku has long been the benchmark for PaaS platforms: simplicity, speed, frictionless deployment. But today, the market has evolved.
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Clever Cloud: The Ideal Complement to OVHcloud for Simplicity and Productivity

OVHcloud is a leading European cloud provider, known for its VPS, bare-metal servers, and IaaS/PaaS…

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