Cloud Provider Guide

Browse providers, regions, and sizes available through the Elestio CLI.

Elestio supports 10 cloud providers across 100+ regions. Each provider has different features, pricing, and capabilities.

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Provider Comparison

Feature	Netcup	Hetzner	OVHcloud	AWS	Azure	Scaleway	Vultr	Linode	DO
Catalog deploy	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
CI/CD deploy	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Volumes	✗	✓	✓ (High-Speed Gen2 or Classic)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Size downgrade	✓	Only If last upgraded without disk	✓ (never to a smaller disk)	✓	✓	✓	—	—	—
Firewall	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
SSL/Domains	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

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Choosing a Provider

Use Netcup when:

• You want the best price/performance ratio
• You don't need block volumes
• You may need to downgrade your instance size later
• EU-based (Germany) is acceptable

Use Hetzner when:

• You need block volumes for persistent storage
• You want a strong EU-based infrastructure (Germany, Finland)
• Note: Hetzner does not support size downgrades

Use AWS when:

• You need global reach (many regions worldwide)
• You need size-downgrade flexibility
• You're already in the AWS ecosystem

Use Azure when:

• You need Microsoft cloud infrastructure
• You need size-downgrade flexibility
• You need specific Azure regions (e.g., germanywestcentral)

Use OVHcloud when:

• You want a European provider with 35 regions worldwide (28 in Europe)
• You need unlimited bandwidth
• You may need to downgrade later (always to a plan with an equal or larger disk)
• Launch offer: 50% off every OVHcloud resource until January 1, 2027 (services, CI/CD targets, load balancers and volumes; support plans are not discounted). elestio sizes and elestio deploy --dry-run show the discounted price

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Available Regions

# See all regions for a provider
elestio sizes --provider netcup
elestio sizes --provider hetzner
elestio sizes --provider aws
elestio sizes --provider azure
elestio sizes --provider ovh

Without --region, the CLI uses your configured region for your configured provider, nbg for Netcup and DE1 (Frankfurt) for OVHcloud. Any other provider needs --region.

Common regions

Netcup:

Region	Location
nbg	Nuremberg, Germany (EU)
mns	Manassas, Virginia, USA

Hetzner:

Region	Location
fsn1	Falkenstein, Germany
nbg1	Nuremberg, Germany
hel1	Helsinki, Finland
ash	Ashburn, Virginia, USA

OVHcloud:

Region	Location
DE1	Frankfurt, Germany
GRA11	Gravelines, France
SBG5	Strasbourg, France
RBX-A	Roubaix, France
UK1	London, United Kingdom
BHS5	Beauharnois, Canada
SGP1	Singapore
SYD1	Sydney, Australia

Local Zones (*-LZ-*) offer fewer sizes.

AWS: us-east-1, us-west-2, eu-west-1, eu-central-1, ap-southeast-1, ap-northeast-1, and more.

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Specifying a Provider at Deploy Time

elestio deploy postgresql \
  --project 112 \
  --name my-db \
  --provider hetzner \
  --region fsn1 \
  --size LARGE-4C-8G

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Size Downgrade Warning

Attempting to downgrade on an unsupported provider (Hetzner) can permanently block the service and require Elestio support intervention. The CLI will automatically refuse downgrade requests on unsupported providers.

Only these providers support downgrading:

• Netcup
• AWS
• Azure
• Scaleway
• OVHcloud (never to a plan with a smaller disk)

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Support Tiers

Available on all providers:

Tier	Monthly Cost	Response Time	Channel
level1	Included	48 hours	Email
level2	+$50/service/mo	24 hours	Priority email
level3	+$200/service/mo	4 hours	Dedicated engineer

elestio deploy postgresql --project 112 --support level2