Aruba review

Pros and cons

Who it suits

• Italian teams who want data kept in the country and priced in euros.
• Developers pairing a small virtual server with S3-compatible object storage on one bill.
• Small teams that push a lot of data out and value 40 TB per month with the entry package over raw CPU.

Who should look elsewhere

• Anyone needing hourly billing or per-second metering for spiky loads, where Vultr suits better.
• Workloads that must sit close to users outside Italy, where UCloud spreads regions wider.
• Buyers who need per-second billing granularity on a small budget.

Core features

Aruba's entry plan is a small virtual server: 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB storage. That is enough for a staging box, a build agent or a low-traffic service, and it costs €1.99. Billing is on monthly terms only, so the entry price is the recurring monthly figure and the same amount comes due each renewal rather than a promotional first period. The bandwidth allowance is the standout: 2 TB/month is included on the entry plan, which is generous for the money and covers sites that push images, packages and backups. Compute runs in Italy, so a team working with Italian users or Italian data gets short hops and euro pricing. Virtual servers and bare metal sit side by side in vps and bare metal, which means a compute-heavy job can move to dedicated hardware without changing provider. Operating systems cover linux and windows, so both Linux and Windows workloads fit the same plan line. The stated use cases are game server and forex, which tells you who the platform is tuned for: game servers and latency-sensitive trading workloads.

Where and what you run

Everything runs in Italy. That single market is the defining hardware fact: no other country is listed, so anything that depends on low latency to users far from Italy will feel the distance, and any data residency requirement outside Italy is not met here. Within that market, the entry plan is 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB storage, a modest slice of virtual hardware sized for light services rather than heavy builds. Bare metal appears alongside virtual servers in vps and bare metal, so a team can start small and step up to dedicated hardware when a job stops fitting a shared virtual machine. Operating system choice covers linux and windows, which keeps both Linux and Windows bases on the same account. Storage is the other side of the picture: object and block are both offered, priced at €0.011 per GB per month, and the object tier is S3-compatible, so existing buckets, tooling and lifecycle rules can be pointed at it rather than rebuilt. Traffic leaving object storage is billed at €0.05 per GB, and the entry package carries 40 TB per month with the entry package of that allowance.

The company behind it

The provider is Aruba S.p.A., headquartered in Italy and founded in 1994. That is a long operating history in Italian hosting, which matters for a platform that positions itself on data staying in the country. Its stated certifications are ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, a set that covers information security, quality, environmental management, data centre standards and a European data centre code of conduct. Support runs on phone, email and help centre: phone, email and a help centre. Live chat is not among those channels, so anyone who plans around instant messaging during an incident should plan around the phone line instead.

How Aruba compares

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Frequently asked questions

Sources

• aruba.it checked September 26, 2026

  Backs: Compliance certifications, Headquarters, Legal entity, Support channels

  “Aruba has been ISO 27001 certified for many years. We also hold ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ANSI/TIA 942 certifications. ... all Cloud services are certified and fully compliant with the CISPE Code of...”

• aruba.it/en/about-us.aspx checked September 26, 2026

  Backs: Founded

  “Founded in 1994, Aruba S.p.A. is one of Europe's primary providers of cloud services, data centers, web hosting, email services, domain registration services and PEC certified email.”

• arubacloud.com/cloud-storage/cloud-object-storage checked September 26, 2026

  Backs: Egress price per GB, Free egress, Price per GB per month, Regions, S3-compatible, Storage types

  “Outgoing traffic: 0.50 € + VAT every 10 GB”

• arubacloud.com/en/vps checked September 26, 2026

  Backs: Bandwidth allowance, Billing models, Entry plan, Entry price, Operating systems, Regions, Server types, Use cases

  “Data transfer 2 TB/month”

• arubacloud.com/pricing/public-cloud/cloud-object-storage checked September 26, 2026

  Backs: Free egress (GB)

  “Object Storage 4.000 - Outgoing traffic 40 TB”