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Canadian alternatives to Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure: Microsoft Azure offers Canadian storage, but you have to choose it, and it may depend on your plan. It is owned by a US company, so the US CLOUD Act can require it to produce data it controls, wherever that data is stored.

Tier 4: US-owned, Canadian region

Canadian end to end

Canadian-owned, data stored in Canada, and no US company running the infrastructure underneath.

  • VPS, dedicated servers, managed cloud

    Stored in Canada?
    Yes
    Owner
    iDigital Internet Inc. (Vancouver, BC)
    Servers run by
    Vendor-operated Vancouver and Toronto data centres · Not a US company

    Also sells PHIPA-oriented compliance hosting.

  • KVM virtual machines and block storage

    Stored in Canada?
    Yes
    Owner
    LunaNode, a Canadian cloud hosting company founded 2013
    Servers run by
    LunaNode-operated servers in a Toronto data centre · Not a US company

    Low-cost Canadian VMs; the base for at least one Canadian PaaS (MapleDeploy).

  • Managed Coolify platform (git-push deploys and one-click databases)

    Stored in Canada?
    Yes
    Owner
    Lawrence Digital (Ontario), sole proprietorship; wholly Canadian-owned
    Servers run by
    LunaNode (Canadian-owned) · Not a US company

    A Canadian alternative to Vercel, Heroku and Render for small apps. DNS runs through Bunny.net (EU).

  • Cirrus sovereign cloud

    Stored in Canada?
    Yes
    Owner
    Micrologic Inc. (Québec); investors include Desjardins Capital, BDC Capital and Investissement Québec
    Servers run by
    Micrologic Cirrus platform in Québec data centres (QScale partnership) · Not a US company

    Positions Cirrus for Law 25 and PIPEDA compliance.

  • Canadian Sovereign Cloud (VMware-based IaaS; backup; archive)

    Stored in Canada?
    Yes
    Owner
    Think On Inc. (Toronto, ON)
    Servers run by
    ThinkOn-operated infrastructure in Canadian data centres · Not a US company

    Sold through channel partners. Built Canada's Sovereign AI Platform infrastructure under an SSC contract (ThinkOn).

  • OpenStack public cloud, Kubernetes, bare metal

    Stored in Canada?
    Yes, if you choose it
    Owner
    VEXXHOST, Inc. (Montréal, QC), describes itself as Canadian-owned
    Servers run by
    VEXXHOST-operated OpenStack regions · Not a US company

    Pick the Montréal region; its Santa Clara region is in the US.

Not US-owned, data in Canada

Owned outside Canada and the United States, with data stored in Canada.

  • Public cloud and bare metal

    Stored in Canada?
    Yes, if you choose it
    Owner
    OVH Groupe SA (Roubaix, France)
    Servers run by
    OVHcloud-owned data centres; Beauharnois also assembles its North American servers · Not a US company

    The main non-US hyperscale-style option with Canadian regions. Not US-owned, but not Canadian-owned either.

If storage in Canada is enough

These are US-owned but can keep data in Canada. They meet most storage rules; they do not meet an ownership test.

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