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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.
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.
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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Top 5 best PaaS: hosting, deploying, and maintaining your cloud-native applications with full autonomy
PaaS (Platform as a Service) enables teams to host, deploy, and scale their applications without directly managing the underlying infrastructure. In a context where time-to-market is critical, these platforms accelerate production deployments while structuring operations (monitoring, backups, disaster recovery).
Top 3 sovereign alternatives to Heroku: deploy your applications without dependency
For many developers, Heroku long represented the simplest way to deploy applications to the cloud. A single git push was enough to publish a service online, without managing servers or infrastructure. However, following its acquisition by Salesforce and the removal of several free tiers, many teams are now looking for sovereign alternatives to Heroku that combine automation, performance, and independence.
Top 5 best European cloud providers: sovereign, reliable and automation-focused platforms
The best European cloud providers address a core requirement: delivering infrastructures and services that ensure regulatory compliance, operational control and protection of data against extraterritorial legal risks.
Autumn-Winter 2025 Events
Clever Cloud is wrapping up the year on a high note with a busy agenda of events in France and abroad. From prestigious conferences to hands-on workshops, specialized forums, and professional gatherings.
Clever Cloud goes London: New availability zone (AZ) build on IONOS infrastructure
IONOS, the leading European digitalisation Partner and trusted cloud enabler, supports Clever Cloud, a European Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, to open a new availability zone (AZ) in London. This collaboration enables Clever Cloud to establish a physical presence in the UK market.
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.