I'm italian too.

For payments I've used Mollie, which is EU based and has good DX. It also has something critical that Stripe does not: proper customer service. Adyen is also good.

You're a bit generic on other fronts but Scaleway is an excellent EU-based cloud provider. Haven't missed anything from AWS so far.

> Just take a look at Neon Postgres as an example: where do you find a product like this in Europe?

Why would you even want such a product? Managed postgres for cheap in the low 10s of Euros will scale to lots of users.

If your problem is scaling you have the best problem in the world, and one that most cloud vendors offer solutions for out of the box.

Neon is a great solution..which fits a handful of use cases.

US definitely enjoys an apex position in cloud services, but there's little to no core irreplaceable products beyond leading edge AI in European offerings.

Cloudflare might be an exception if latency, ddos protection and global reach are important.