eu stack for under €10/month

Bootstrappers are running full-stack applications in the EU for under €10 per month using free-tier offerings from Scaleway, Neon, and Cloudflare [EU Alternative]. The guide documents a working stack that stays within free-tier limits: Scaleway for ARM64 VMs (€5.50/month for 2 vCPUs, 4GB RAM), Neon for Postgres (free tier includes 3 projects, 10GB storage), and Cloudflare for DNS, CDN, and Workers (free up to 100k requests/day) [EU Alternative]. Traffic routing uses Cloudflare Load Balancer with health checks to a Scaleway Instance Group, enabling zero-downtime deploys on a €9.99/month budget. The stack avoids AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure entirely — all of which lack combined free tiers that allow EU residency at this price point. By using Scaleway's ARM64 image, memory pressure is reduced by 30% versus x86-64 for Node.js services [EU Alternative]. Neon's 10GB limit is managed via partitioned time-series tables. This setup keeps all data in Paris (Scaleway) and Prague (Neon) by default. The guide treats free tiers not as trial tools but as production-grade components. With this setup, founders can stretch their runway by 6–8 months versus standard cloud configs. Scaleway's API parity with AWS EC2 means builders learn transferable skills, not renting a walled garden.