Funilly enough, payment might be the area where it's the easiest to find a credible european alternative. Adyen is an enormous PSP Mollie is aiming at smaller companies.

Scaleway, OVH, Hetzner, Infomaniak and others do have pre-packaged, managed services, but you might not find "eveything and anything" that you find at, say, AWS. The other side of the same coin is that you're as vendor-locked if you buid something with one component at SCW, one at Hetzner and the third at Infomaniak... (but you have to manage 3 different invoices...)

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amiga386 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The UK Government just replaced Stripe with Ayden for most payments, so good suggestion.

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2026/06/02/building-for-the-future-m...

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ExoticPearTree 3 hours ago | parent [-]

There was a thread about it, and Ayden will not talk to you if you sell less than $5mm/yr using online payments.

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karambahh 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think this is exactly the market Mollie is tapping in at the moment: "as feature complete as Ayden, but no need to run millions by us to be a first class citizen"

	▲	econ 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I've never been so confused implementing something. I sat there thinking, this is it? There is nothing else to do? How can this be it? It does have all the features and API craziness other processors offer but you don't have to use any of it.

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dnpls 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This could be Adyen's opportunity for a growth spike if they seize it

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niklasd 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Unfortunately service reliability of Scaleway was terrible last time we used them.