Skip to content
CloudTweaks
Infrastructure (IaaS)

IONOS

$ Budgetfrom $2/mo · Last reviewed May 2026

IONOS is a large European hosting and cloud provider (part of the United Internet group, with roots in the 1&1 business; the IONOS brand emerged from the 2018 1&1/ProfitBricks combination). It serves a broad market from individual website owners and SMBs to enterprise IONOS Cloud customers, offering Cloud VPS, a pay-by-the-minute Compute Engine, CNCF-certified Managed Kubernetes, and S3-compatible object storage. Cloud VPS starts around $2/month with unlimited traffic and 24/7 support. It runs roughly 31 ISO 27001-certified datacenters across North America and Europe on renewable energy.

europeanlow-costcloud-vpsmanaged-kubernetes

Overview

Founded
2018
Pricing tier
Low
Startup-friendly
Yes
Enterprise-ready
Yes

Cloud infrastructure

Starting price
$2/mo
Regions
31
SLA uptime
99.9%
Managed Kubernetes
Yes
Helm support
Yes
Free tier
No
Vendor lock-in
Low
Open standards
Yes
Easy data export
Yes
Multi-cloud friendly
Yes
Org size
Midsize
Support tier
Standard
Ease of use
4/5

Categories & compliance

Categories

Compliance

ISO27001GDPR
Attributes are sourced facts; rankings are derived from them by a transparent scoring engine. “Verified” is a vendor-claimed badge and has no effect on ranking.