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Amsterdam is one of the few cities that quietly runs a big chunk of the European internet, and our zone there has been busy since it opened last October. So we've added more capacity. If you wanted a VPS in the Netherlands and found your plan full, there's room again, and this is one worth a closer look, because the building behind it does a lot of the heavy lifting.
More VPS capacity in Amsterdam, Netherlands
The short version: our Amsterdam zone filled up faster than we planned for, so we've brought more AMD EPYC capacity online and provisioning is instant again across the board. It's one of nine zones we run across Europe and the US, and it's quietly turned into one of the busiest. That makes sense once you see where it actually lives.
Inside Digital Realty AMS18
Our Amsterdam zone runs inside Digital Realty AMS18, in the Amstel Business Park on the east side of the city. Digital Realty runs data centers on nearly every continent, and AMS18 is a carrier-neutral site built for exactly this kind of dense compute. We run our own AMD EPYC hardware inside it, so the performance and the pricing match the rest of our network. What sets Amsterdam apart is the address itself.
Certifications and security
AMS18 is about as buttoned-up as data centers get. It carries ISO 27001 for information security, SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3 audit reports, and PCI-DSS for anyone handling card data, plus ISO certifications for quality, environmental and energy management. Physical security runs 24x7 on-site, with biometric entry, photo-badge access and 90 days of CCTV footage. Power and cooling both run N+1, so one failed component doesn't take your server down with it. That redundancy is part of how we hold to a 99.99% uptime target.
Sustainability and power
Here's the part that's turning into a real buying factor. AMS18 runs on 100% renewable energy and is certified CarbonNeutral, so the server you deploy in Amsterdam isn't quietly padding your carbon reporting the way a lot of hosting still does. More clients ask about this every year, especially in Europe, and pointing at a CarbonNeutral facility with ISO 50001 energy management behind it beats a vague promise.
What AMS-IX and NL-IX peering bring
A great building is table stakes. What actually makes Amsterdam special for hosting is what it plugs into, and AMS18 sits on top of two of Europe's most important exchanges. That peering is where the latency and the reach come from.
Reach across Europe and beyond
The big one is AMS-IX, one of the largest internet exchanges on the planet. In 2025 it moved 35.66 exabytes of traffic across 902 connected networks, and through its wider platform it reaches roughly 1,300 networks worldwide. In plain terms, a packet leaving your Amsterdam VPS gets a direct, un-congested path to a huge slice of the internet without paying the latency tax of extra hops. Alongside it, NL-IX adds a full-meshed pan-European network, so routes deeper into the continent stay short too. Two independent exchanges also means that if one has a bad day, your traffic still has somewhere to go.
Low latency across Northern Europe
Because Amsterdam is one of Europe's core interconnection points, the practical result is short round-trips to users in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, the UK and Scandinavia. If your audience sits anywhere in that band, an Amsterdam VPS usually beats hosting further south or trying to serve the whole continent from a single spot.
Data residency in the Netherlands
If you need EU data residency, or a client insists their data stays on Dutch soil, an Amsterdam VPS covers it by default. The Netherlands has strong data-protection footing and a stable regulatory setup, which is part of why so many companies anchor their European operations here.
What you get on an Amsterdam VPS
The spec sheet in Amsterdam matches the rest of the network, because we run our own gear in each zone. Every Instant VPS is AMD EPYC with NVMe SSD storage and full root access on KVM, the same stack you'd run in any of our other locations.
- Instant provisioning. Pick Amsterdam at checkout and the server boots in seconds.
- Unmetered bandwidth. Move as much traffic as your project needs over a 1 Gbps port, with no overage on the invoice.
- No setup fees. You pay for the plan and nothing extra to switch it on.
- 30-day money-back. Deploy one, test the latency from your own users and decide from there.
You can spin up an Instant VPS in Amsterdam today, and we'll keep adding to what's available in the Netherlands as the zone grows.
How to deploy a VPS in Amsterdam
It's the same flow as any other zone. Pick your config, set the location to Amsterdam and check out. The server comes online in seconds with a fresh OS template ready to go, Ubuntu through Windows Server and most things in between. If you'd rather read the location details first, the Netherlands VPS hosting page lays out the specs and the network, and you can see how Amsterdam sits next to the rest on our data center locations page.
If you've been serving Northern European users from wherever you happened to land first, Amsterdam is worth a test. Spin one up, run a few pings from Amsterdam, London and Stockholm and watch the numbers settle. When the location and the building are both this good, it's usually the easiest hosting decision you'll make all quarter.
