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VERDICT

Should I use STACKIT?

STACKIT Calculator - stackit.com

Depends. Buy it if EU data sovereignty, German legal jurisdiction, or government customers drive your infrastructure decisions and you have engineers to run raw IaaS. Skip it if you want the simplest, cheapest hosting or hyperscaler service breadth — Hetzner or AWS fit those cases better.

Confidence

Medium. Based on 30+ public sources; many snippets truncated, so a few claims rest on partial text.

Ratings

  • Value for money
  • Ease of useNo usable evidence in sources
  • Feature depth
  • Support qualityNo usable evidence in sources
  • Security posture

Pricing

Not disclosed

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed

Best for

  • EU data-sovereignty workloads
  • Government and regulated industries
  • Teams leaving AWS/Azure for compliance
  • German-market enterprise IT

Not for

  • Small teams needing one simple server — Hetzner is cheaper and easier
  • Non-EU teams with no sovereignty requirements
  • Startups needing hyperscaler managed-service breadth (AI, serverless)
  • Teams with no DevOps capacity — this is raw IaaS, you operate it

Gotchas - check before you buy

high

Patch and restrict service accounts: 2026 privilege-escalation CVE in the IaaS API

medium

Proprietary KMS/AI services create lock-in; Terraform helps but migration is real work

medium

Guess: smaller community than AWS means slower troubleshooting answers and fewer examples

low

Usage-based billing, no flat plans — model spend in the STACKIT Calculator before committing

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Cheaper than AWS, Azure, GCP in independent cost comparisons
  • German-owned sovereign cloud with EU data protection
  • Broad portfolio: compute, Kubernetes, KMS, secrets manager, colocation
  • Official Terraform provider for infrastructure-as-code
  • Named official cloud alternative for the Dutch government

Cons

  • Critical privilege-escalation CVE in IaaS API, June 2026
  • Security talk titled 'Four Zero-Days in STACKIT Cloud' exists
  • Community debates whether EU clouds match hyperscaler maturity

Sources & method

Analyzed 9/27/2026 - 12 sources - Strong sovereignty and compliance positioning (KMS, secrets manager, CrowdStrike partnership), but one critical CVE in 2026.

official x3review x4security x2news x3
  • CVE-2026-39910: STACKIT IaaS API privilege escalation, Missing authorization check via service account attachment; disclosed June 2026.
  • Talk alleging four zero-days in STACKIT Cloud, A titled presentation exists; no further details verified in the sources reviewed.

Key stats

  • Value for money: 4/5

    Rating

  • Not disclosed

    Starting price

  • 12

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money: 4/5. Cheaper than hyperscalers in third-party comparisons
  • Ease of use. No usable evidence in sources
  • Feature depth: 4/5. Compute, K8s, KMS, colocation, AI, Terraform
  • Support quality. No usable evidence in sources
  • Security posture: 3/5. Strong sovereignty stack, but critical 2026 API CVE
  • 2022 Launched By Schwarz Group (Lidl/Kaufland owner)
  • Schwarz Group Parent company German retail giant, sovereign cloud push
  • 1 Known critical CVEs IaaS API privilege escalation, June 2026
  • Dutch government Marquee win Named official cloud alternative

Pricing

Not disclosed

Security

Strong sovereignty and compliance positioning (KMS, secrets manager, CrowdStrike partnership), but one critical CVE in 2026.

  • CVE-2026-39910: STACKIT IaaS API privilege escalationMissing authorization check via service account attachment; disclosed June 2026.
  • Talk alleging four zero-days in STACKIT CloudA titled presentation exists; no further details verified in the sources reviewed.⁸

What users say

Redditors highlight strong European security and pricing gestures, comparison sites say buyers praise STACKIT, while community threads debate EU cloud maturity.

“highest European secur…”
Reddit, r/BuyFromEU
“Stackit doesn't charge f…”
Reddit, r/BuyFromEU
“Buyers praise STACKIT's…”
RFP.wiki comparison

Companies that use it

  • Dutch Government⁹
  • Celonis
  • Exxeta
Full analysis

Based on 30+ public sources; many snippets truncated, so a few claims rest on partial text.

German sovereign cloud from Schwarz Group: right for EU compliance workloads, overkill if you just need a cheap simple server.

Methodology

Based on 30+ public sources; many snippets truncated, so a few claims rest on partial text.

Sources

  1. STACKIT – The German business cloud (Reddit)reddit.com
    review
  2. Which Cloud is Cheaper? AWS, Azure, GCP, and Stackitmedium.com
    review
  3. Stackit Reviews on G2g2.com
    review
  4. STACKIT vs Cast AI (RFP.wiki)rfp.wiki
    review
  5. STACKIT price overviewstackit.com
    official
  6. STACKIT Cloud Pricing Calculatorcalculator.stackit.cloud
    official
  7. CVE-2026-39910: STACKIT IaaS API Privilege Escalationsentinelone.com
    security
  8. Four Zero-Days in STACKIT Cloud (video)youtube.com
    security
  9. STACKIT becomes the Dutch government's official cloud alternativestackit.com
    news
  10. Schwarz Group opens German Cloud STACKITgruppe.schwarz
    news
  11. Open Telekom Cloud, STACKIT, and OVHcloud in Focusxomnia.com
    news
  12. STACKIT Terraform providerregistry.terraform.io
    official

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