Open Source Night - 📆 23.06.2026 -📍 NETWAYS - Nuremberg Digital Festival 🛠️
Open Source Night - 📆 23.06.2026 -📍 NETWAYS - Nuremberg Digital Festival 🛠️
Open Source Night - 📆 23.06.2026 -📍 NETWAYS - Nuremberg Digital Festival 🛠️

Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure
from Germany

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name vcpu ram disk hour month
s1.small 2 2.048 25 0.01997 14.38
s1.medium 4 4.096 50 0.03994 28.76
s1.large 6 8.192 75 0.06727 48.43
s1.xlarge 8 16.384 100 0.10932 78.71
s1.xxlarge 12 32.768 150 0.19342 139.26
s1.xxxlarge 16 65.536 200 0.3364 242.21
name vcpu ram disk gpu hour month
g1.large 4 16.384 200 A10 0.9482 682.7
g1.xlarge 8 32.768 350 A10 1.0487 755.06
g1.xxlarge 16 65.536 500 A10 1.2251 882.07
g2.large 4 16.384 200 A40 1.1782 848.3
g2.xlarge 8 32.768 350 A40 1.2787 920.66
g2.xxlarge 16 65.536 500 A40 1.4551 1047.67
g3.xxlarge 32 32.768 400 RTX 6000 Blackwell Server Edition 2.380227 1713.76
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Features

Our services for your success

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Cloud server

With our cloud servers, you can scale computing capacity in minutes - upwards during peak loads and downwards during quiet periods. Instances can run on local NVMe storage with dedicated vCPU allocation, so you don't have to share performance with other
clients. You can choose between General Purpose (s1), Performance Optimized (p1) and Dedicated (d1) instance families - depending on your CPU-to-RAM ratio and I/O requirements. All flavors can be billed hourly, with no minimum term.

  • High Performance NVMe
  • Dedicated vCPU
  • Multiple OSes and Flavors
  • Backup and snapshots
  • Nvidia RTX 6000 Blackwell Server Edition

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Networking

With Software Defined Networking (SDN), you can build your virtual network exactly according to your requirements - including firewall rules, routing and network segmentation. Secure multi-tier applications with separate networks for the front end, back end and
database, or connect multiple projects via a shared private network. Floating IPs allow you to flexibly move public IP addresses between instances.

  • Virtual Private Cloud
  • IPV4+IPv6
  • Security Groups
  • Floating IPs

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S3 Object Storage

Our Object Storage is fully compatible with the Amazon S3 API and the OpenStack Swift API - existing tools such as Rclone, s3cmd or the AWS CLI work without any problems. With our Object Storage, you can store any data effortlessly. Whether web assets, backups, videos or other huge blob files. The data is stored exclusively in our data centers in Nuremberg - no transfer to third countries, GDPR-compliant.

  • Versioning & lifecycle management
  • Object Locking & Immutable Storage
  • Amazon S3 API compatible
  • OpenStack Swift API compatible
  • Storage classes: S3, S3-Eco
  • Find out more about our S3 storage

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Administration

Your cloud resources can be managed in the MyNWS customer interface or programmatically via API or an SDK, depending on your requirements or preferences.
You manage your resources the way that suits your team: via the MyNWS dashboard for visual management, or completely programmatically via the native OpenStack API. Infrastructure as Code works
out-of-the-box with Terraform, Ansible and Pulumi - no proprietary CLI, no vendor-specific abstractions. What you configure here today can be ported to any other OpenStack provider tomorrow.

  • Native API
  • Easy and Expert-Mode UI
  • SDKs
  • Third party tooling (Ansible, Terraform, Pulumi)

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Storage

Provide your applications with the right storage. Triple replicated and distributed across two locations for maximum reliability or lightning-fast local NVMes for I/O-intensive applications such as databases and caches. Volumes can be enlarged, snapshotted and moved between instances during operation. Air Gapped Backups write to a physically separate storage cluster - without network access, and therefore immune to ransomware. You decide!

  • Volumes
  • NVMe
  • Object Storage
  • Volume Types
  • Backups and snapshots
  • Air Gapped Backups

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GPUs

Our GPU instances are for teams that need powerful compute - and whose data needs to stay in Germany. Whether ML training, inference or scientific simulations: you can choose between NVIDIA A10 (24 GB VRAM), NVIDIA A40 (48
GB VRAM) and the RTX 6000 Blackwell Server Edition (96 GB VRAM). PCI passthrough enables direct hardware access for maximum performance. All GPU instances run GDPR-compliant in Nuremberg - without a detour via US infrastructure.

  • NVIDIA A40
  • NVIDIA A10
  • Nvidia RTX 6000 Blackwell Server Edition
  • PCI passthrough
  • Learn more

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Load Balancer

Automatically distribute incoming traffic to multiple instances or Kubernetes clusters - for high availability and even utilization. Health checks detect failed backends in real time and redirect traffic without manual intervention. Sticky
sessions keep user sessions consistent on a backend - important for stateful applications. Blue-green deployments and canary releases can be mapped using weighted traffic routing.

  • TCP/UDP
  • Health Checks
  • Sticky Sessions

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Backup and snapshots

Protect your data from loss. Whether snapshots for short-term protection, backups or even long-term archiving with air-gapped backups for full disaster recovery.
Protect your infrastructure on multiple levels: VM snapshots for fast point-in-time recovery, automated volume backups for daily protection, and air gapped backups for full disaster recovery. The dedicated
Air Gapped Backup is physically separated - no network access means maximum protection against ransomware and accidental deletion. All backups are stored in Nuremberg, not in an external cloud service.

  • Volumes
  • S3 Buckets
  • NVMes
  • Dedicated storage cluster for backups
  • Air Gapped Backups

Our customers

Our solutions are in use – and with measurable success. Take a look at how other companies benefit from our services.

Kunde Neura Robotics
Kunde
Kunde Trinuts
Thüringer Aufbaubank
docjo
LQ Group
Intellior
Nextcloud
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To the success stories

Many thanks for the quick support! This is the kind of customer support I would wish for from other providers. I am delighted.

Christoph Klöppner | MZA Meyer-Zweiradtechnik GmbH

The relocation of our systems was optimally supported.

Frank Siebert | Trinuts GmbH

With NETWAYS Managed Service, we have not only found a provider, but a real partner who speaks our language.

Andre Plöger | mib Management Institut Bochum GmbH

Awards

NWS Certificate ISO IEC 27001
NWS Certificate ISO IEC 27001
NWS Certificate OpenInfra Foundation Silver Member
NWS Certificate Kubernetes Certified Service Provider
NWS Certificate CNCF Silver Member
Readers' Choice Service Provider Award 2025 - Kubernetes

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Why OpenStack?

OpenStack is the most widely used open source cloud platform in the world – used by CERN, Deutsche Telekom, BMW and hundreds of other companies that have deliberately avoided proprietary hyperscalers. Unlike AWS, Azure or GCP, OpenStack has no vendor that can increase licenses, adjust roadmaps or change access policies.

For you, this means that your infrastructure can be controlled via the standardized OpenStack API – with Terraform, Ansible, the OpenStack CLI or the Python SDK. What you set up today will also run tomorrow in another OpenStack data center, with another provider or on-premises. No vendor lock-in due to proprietary abstractions.

NWS has been running OpenStack for over a decade and is a member of the OpenInfra Foundation.

VMware alternative: OpenStack

Since the Broadcom takeover, many companies have reported VMware license increases of between 300% and 1,000%. If you need to recalculate your infrastructure anyway, make the decision for OpenStack now – not in two years’ time.

NWS Cloud Services is the direct operating environment for this change: OpenStack Compute (Nova) replaces vSphere/ESXi, Ceph block storage (Cinder) replaces vSAN, and OVN-SDN replaces VMware NSX – with full API compatibility for Terraform and Ansible, which you are already using. Existing VM images can be migrated via `virt-v2v`; our NWS MyEngineer accompanies the process.

The decisive difference to switching to AWS or Azure: No new proprietary dependencies. No new lock-in. Open standards from start to finish.

FAQ

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What advantages do NETWAYS Cloud Services offer me?

The benefits of our NETWAYS Cloud Services range from redundant, high-availability components and the highest security standards, to an architecture designed for scale-out based on OpenStack, fair and transparent pricing and our exclusive Premium Managed Services.
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What is Managed OpenStack?

Our NETWAYS Cloud Services offering is essentially a managed OpenStack environment. We have developed an OpenStack tutorial series that gives you a step-by-step introduction to OpenStack and the benefits of our managed services. Have a look!

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What does the NETWAYS Cloud cost?

Our prices are based on your actual usage. You can use our cloud services for as little as €14.39 per month. In any case, you only pay for what you actually use and on an hourly basis. You can find the exact billing details for individual resources on our pricing page.

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How can I use the NETWAYS Cloud Services?

First of all, create a free NWS account. Then start your OpenStack and log in with your credentials, which you can find in the "Access" tab. Now you are ready to start your first virtual machine (VM). You can find detailed instructions on how to do this in our tutorial "Starting a project and creating the first server" Sebastian.

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How secure is the NETWAYS Cloud?

Data protection and security are very important to us. Your data is stored in our ISO-27001 certified and highly secure data centers in Nuremberg. A redundant, distributed structure with different zones also guarantees high availability.

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Who can I contact if I have problems?

If you have any questions or problems with our cloud services, you can contact our support service and your personal MyEngineer® at any time. We are there for you without a hotline or queue. 24/7 - if you like!
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How long does the contract run for?

There is no contract term for our cloud services.
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Do I have advantages compared to VMware

Yes, you can secure some advantages compared to VMware. For example, you have no license fees and benefit from a large community-driven platform. You can find more advantages here.