Google Cloud vs OVHcloud

Google Cloud is strongest for enterprises. OVHcloud is strongest for european data residency. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Google Cloud	OVHcloud
Starting price	$0.01/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Enterprises Data & AI/ML workloads Kubernetes-native teams BigQuery/analytics-heavy stacks	European data residency Cost-conscious scale-outs Managed databases Kubernetes AI/GPU workloads
Stated uptime SLA	99.99%	99.99% (Public Cloud instances, region dependent)
Storage	SSD	NVME
Regions	40	33
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community, Phone (paid support tiers)	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Phone (paid plans)
Compliance	SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA (BAA available), GDPR, FedRAMP (select services)	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (France), HDS (health data hosting, France)
Hidden costs to watch for	Network egress to internet billed per-GB and rises past free tier (200 GiB/month egress to certain destinations) Sustained-use and committed-use discounts are separate mechanisms and easy to miss when comparing to flat-rate competitors Custom machine types carry a 5% premium over predefined machine type pricing GKE charges a $0.10/hour cluster management fee per cluster (Standard and Autopilot alike) Cloud SQL high-availability configuration doubles vCPU, memory, and persistent disk costs Nearline/Coldline/Archive storage classes carry early-deletion minimum storage durations (30/90/365 days) and per-GB retrieval fees	IPv4 addresses billed separately per instance/Local Zone Windows license surcharge of $0.039/vCore/hour on top of base instance price APAC region (India, Singapore, Australia) outbound traffic loses free-egress status after 2026-06-01/2026-12-31 depending on product Object Storage Infrequent Access / Cold Archive / Active Archive have data-retrieval fees and minimum storage durations (30-180 days) with early-deletion penalties
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18