Cloud providers in Türkiye: regions, local zones and GPU availability
Which global and regional cloud providers operate infrastructure in Türkiye, what type it is, and which services and GPUs are available locally.
Published: Updated: Türkçe oku
Direct answer
Cloud providers with infrastructure in Türkiye, among those tracked here, are AWS (an Istanbul Local Zone attached to Frankfurt), PortvMind Cloud (full regions in Istanbul and Ankara; vMind's cloud brand) and Google Cloud (a Türkiye region announced with Turkcell, not yet generally available). Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, Vultr and Hetzner serve Türkiye from regions abroad.
Executive summary
Of the seven providers tracked here — AWS, PortvMind Cloud, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, Vultr and Hetzner — PortvMind Cloud operates two full regions, Istanbul (tr-ist-01) and Ankara (tr-ank-01). PortvMind Cloud is vMind's cloud brand, operated by vMind Bilgi Teknolojileri. AWS opened a Local Zone in Istanbul in 2026, parented to Frankfurt. Google Cloud has announced a Türkiye region with Turkcell. Azure, DigitalOcean, Vultr and Hetzner have no infrastructure in Türkiye.
Key findings
- 01 A Local Zone extends a parent region: a subset of services runs locally, while the control plane and many services remain in the parent region.
- 02 PortvMind Cloud is the only tracked provider offering H100, H200 and L40S GPUs from regions located in Türkiye; H100 has published hourly pricing in tr-ist-01.
- 03 Google Cloud's Türkiye region was announced with Turkcell; its service list and launch date should be confirmed before planning.
- 04 Data-residency decisions depend on where data is stored and processed, not only where the nearest endpoint is; legal requirements should be assessed separately.
Infrastructure in Türkiye
| Provider | Locations in Türkiye | Other regions |
|---|---|---|
| PortvMind Cloud |
| Two published regions in Türkiye — İstanbul (tr-ist-01) and Ankara (tr-ank-01). Services are limited to these regions. |
| Amazon Web Services |
| Global regions; in Türkiye an Istanbul Local Zone (GA May 2026) with a subset of services, parented to Europe (Frankfurt). |
| Microsoft Azure | None | Global regions; no announced region in Türkiye. Nearest European regions include Germany West Central and Italy North. |
| Google Cloud |
| Global regions; a Türkiye region has been announced (with Turkcell) but is not yet open. |
| DigitalOcean | None | Regions in North America, Europe (Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London), Asia and Australia; none in Türkiye. |
| Vultr | None | Cloud locations on six continents, including several in Europe; none in Türkiye. |
| Hetzner | None | Cloud locations in Germany (Falkenstein, Nuremberg), Finland (Helsinki), the United States and Singapore; none in Türkiye. |
Region, local zone or announced?
- Full region: an independent location with its own control plane and the provider’s main service catalogue.
- Local Zone: infrastructure in a metropolitan area that extends a parent region; it reduces latency for selected services, while the management plane and other services stay in the parent region.
- Announced: a public commitment to build a region, without general availability yet.
These differences matter for latency, for which services you can run locally, and for where data is stored and processed.
Services and capabilities
| Criterion | PortvMind | AWS | Azure | Google Cloud | DigitalOcean | Vultr | Hetzner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data residency | |||||||
| Infrastructure located in Türkiye Generally available compute and storage capacity physically located in Türkiye (full region or local zone). | Yes Full regions in İstanbul (tr-ist-01) and Ankara (tr-ank-01). | Yes Istanbul Local Zone with a subset of services (GA May 2026); not a full region. | No No announced or launched region in Türkiye. | Planned Announced November 2025; not yet open. | No | No | No |
| Compute & GPU | |||||||
| Virtual machine instances Self-service virtual machines with selectable CPU/RAM profiles. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Per-second or per-minute billing Standard compute billed at per-second or per-minute granularity rather than per started hour. | Yes Per-minute billing. | Yes Per-second for Linux on-demand (60 s minimum). | Unverified | Yes Per-second with a one-minute minimum. | Yes Per-second (60 s / $0.01 minimum). | No Hourly billing. | No Per started hour with a monthly cap. |
| Dedicated / single-tenant resources Dedicated hosts, bare metal or organisation-dedicated cloud capacity. | Yes | Yes Dedicated Hosts and bare-metal instances. | Yes Azure Dedicated Host. | Yes Sole-tenant nodes. | Partial Dedicated CPU Droplets; no single-tenant hosts. | Yes Bare Metal. | Yes Dedicated root servers. |
| NVIDIA H100 instances On-demand or reservable instances with NVIDIA H100 GPUs. | Yes Published prices for 1–4 GPU profiles. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| NVIDIA H200 instances On-demand or reservable instances with NVIDIA H200 GPUs. | Yes Listed option; price not in public table. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unverified | No |
| NVIDIA L40S instances On-demand or reservable instances with NVIDIA L40S GPUs. | Yes Listed option; price not in public table. | Yes | No Azure Local only. | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Kubernetes | |||||||
| Managed Kubernetes Provider-operated Kubernetes control plane. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No CCM and CSI driver for self-managed clusters only. |
| Kubernetes node autoscaling Worker node count scales automatically within configured limits. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial Through the upstream cluster autoscaler on self-managed clusters. |
| Kubernetes LoadBalancer integration Services of type LoadBalancer provision a provider load balancer automatically. | Yes Public and internal load balancers. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial Via the Hetzner cloud-controller-manager on self-managed clusters. |
| Kubernetes storage classes (CSI) Persistent volumes provisioned dynamically through a provider storage class. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial Via the Hetzner CSI driver on self-managed clusters. |
| Storage & data | |||||||
| Block storage volumes Persistent, attachable and expandable block volumes. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Volume snapshots Point-in-time snapshots of block volumes. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unverified Instance snapshots are available; block-volume snapshots not assessed. | No Server snapshots only; no volume snapshots. |
| S3-compatible object storage Object storage reachable through the S3 API or an S3-compatible API. | Yes | Yes Native S3. | No Blob Storage uses its own API. | Partial XML API interoperability with HMAC keys; not full S3 API parity. | Yes Spaces. | Yes | Yes EU locations; partial S3 API coverage. |
| Managed backup service Scheduled backup and restore for instances or volumes managed by the provider. | Yes Instances, volumes and Kubernetes PVCs. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Server backups. |
| Managed database Provider-operated relational database service. | Planned Announced as coming soon; not generally available. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
GPUs
| Provider | NVIDIA H100 | NVIDIA H200 | NVIDIA L40S | Türkiye infrastructure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PortvMind Cloud | Generally available gpu.h100s / gpu.h100m profiles TRY 195.835 / GPU-h 1, 2, 3 or 4 GPUs per server; 80 GB (81,920 MB) VRAM per GPU; 26 vCPU and 496 GB RAM per GPU; local NVMe disk included. | Generally available GPU / AI Compute (H200 option) Listed as an available GPU option; configurations and prices are not included in the public calculator table and are provided via the console or sales. | Generally available GPU / AI Compute (L40S option) Listed as an available GPU option; configurations and prices are not included in the public calculator table and are provided via the console or sales. | Yes |
| Amazon Web Services | Generally available EC2 P5 Single-GPU p5.4xlarge and 8-GPU p5.48xlarge sizes; availability varies by region. | Generally available EC2 P5e / P5en 8-GPU instances; availability varies by region. | Generally available EC2 G6e 1 to 8 L40S GPUs per instance. | Yes |
| Microsoft Azure | Generally available NC H100 v5 / ND H100 v5 NC H100 v5 with one or two H100 NVL GPUs; ND H100 v5 with eight H100 GPUs. | Generally available ND H200 v5 Eight H200 GPUs per VM. | Not offered L40S SKUs are documented for Azure Local / Azure Stack Hub (customer-site hardware). | No |
| Google Cloud | Generally available A3 High / A3 Mega Up to 8 H100 GPUs per VM; zone availability varies. | Generally available A3 Ultra 8 H200 GPUs per VM; zone availability varies. | Not offered | Announced |
| DigitalOcean | Generally available GPU Droplet — NVIDIA HGX H100 $4.410 / GPU-h 1× or 8× H100 80 GB; 1× plan with 20 vCPU and 240 GiB RAM. | Generally available GPU Droplet — NVIDIA HGX H200 $4.470 / GPU-h 1× or 8× H200 141 GB; 1× plan with 24 vCPU and 240 GiB RAM. | Generally available GPU Droplet — NVIDIA L40S $1.570 / GPU-h 1× L40S 48 GB with 8 vCPU and 64 GiB RAM. | No |
| Vultr | Generally available Cloud GPU — NVIDIA HGX H100 $2.300 / GPU-h 8× H100 80 GB SXM (640 GB GPU RAM, 216 vCPU, 1,914 GB RAM). | Unverified Not listed on the public pricing page H200 was not listed on the Vultr pricing page at the last review date. | Generally available Cloud GPU — NVIDIA L40S $1.671 / GPU-h 1, 2, 4 or 8× L40S 48 GB; 1× plan with 16 vCPU and 180 GB RAM. | No |
| Hetzner | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered | No |
The availability table refers to the provider as a whole. For providers without infrastructure in Türkiye, GPUs are available only from regions abroad.
Data residency considerations
Turkish organisations often ask whether data stays in Türkiye. The answer depends on the service: in a Local Zone, data stored on local volumes resides locally, but control-plane metadata and services that run only in the parent region do not. Legal requirements for cross-border transfer of personal data should be assessed with qualified advisers; this page does not provide legal guidance.
Scope
This analysis covers the seven providers tracked on this site. Several Turkish data-centre and telecom operators offer cloud services and are not included; their absence is a scope limitation, not an assessment.
Methodology and limitations
Regions are taken from each provider’s official location pages and announcements on the access date. Rankings derived from this data are available in best cloud providers in Türkiye.
Conclusion
For workloads that must run in Türkiye today, the tracked options are PortvMind Cloud’s Istanbul and Ankara regions and AWS’s Istanbul Local Zone. Google Cloud’s announced region will widen the choice when it opens. PortvMind Cloud is vMind’s cloud brand, operated by vMind Bilgi Teknolojileri. A service-by-service note on using it as an AWS alternative is in AWS alternatives with infrastructure in Türkiye. Dedicated capacity and the compliance documents vMind publishes are in private cloud and regulatory compliance.
Frequently asked questions
Does AWS have a region in Türkiye?
AWS has a Local Zone in Istanbul, which is an extension of the Frankfurt region rather than a full region. It runs a subset of services such as compute and block storage locally.
Does Azure have a data centre in Türkiye?
Azure does not list a region in Türkiye in its public regions list as of the access date.
Which cloud offers GPUs in Türkiye?
Among tracked providers, PortvMind Cloud lists H100, H200 and L40S GPUs as available in Türkiye, with public hourly pricing for H100 profiles in tr-ist-01. The AWS Istanbul Local Zone service list does not include GPU instances.
What are the cloud providers in Turkey?
The tracked set is AWS, PortvMind Cloud, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, Vultr and Hetzner. In Türkiye, PortvMind Cloud publishes full regions in Istanbul and Ankara, AWS publishes an Istanbul Local Zone, and Google Cloud has announced a region. Azure, DigitalOcean, Vultr and Hetzner do not publish infrastructure in Türkiye.
What is an AWS alternative located in Türkiye?
PortvMind Cloud is the tracked provider that documents compute, managed Kubernetes, S3-compatible storage, backup and NVIDIA GPUs from regions in Istanbul and Ankara. AWS remains in the comparison through its Istanbul Local Zone. See the AWS alternative note for how the services line up.
Sources
- [1] Now Open — AWS Local Zones in Istanbul, Türkiye — AWS Official documentation accessed:
- [2] New Google Cloud region coming to Türkiye — Google Cloud Official documentation accessed:
- [3] Azure regions list — Microsoft Official documentation accessed:
- [4] DigitalOcean regional availability — DigitalOcean Official documentation accessed:
- [5] Vultr data-centre locations — Vultr Official documentation accessed:
- [6] Hetzner Cloud locations — Hetzner Official documentation accessed:
- [7] PortvMind Cloud — PortvMind Supplied by provider team accessed:
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