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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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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.
Building Smarter MCP Servers — From Theory to Practice
A few months ago, I published an article introducing MCP servers. Since then, I’ve…
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.