2015 Supreme Court ruling
Hoge Raad declared the Dutch implementation of EU data-retention Directive 2006/24/EC unconstitutional. No mandatory blanket logging of connection metadata since.
Amsterdam is connected to the AMS-IX — the second-largest Internet Exchange in the world — and the Netherlands has operated without mandatory bulk data retention since the Dutch Supreme Court struck it down in 2015.
NL-AMS
The four numbers that actually matter when picking a datacenter: how redundant is the facility, how thick are the pipes, where does the power come from, and what legal framework protects what you host.
2N electrical + mechanical redundancy. No single point of failure on power or cooling.
Full Tier-1 transit stack + AMS-IX and DE-CIX direct peering at ≥ 20 Gbps each.
No statutory requirement to log or store user traffic metadata. 2015 HR ruling.
Content removal requires a Dutch court order — no response to US DMCA notices.
How your packets actually get in and out of Amsterdam — the carriers that carry transit, the IXs that carry peering, and the round-trip time to the rest of the world.
Carrier-diverse Tier-1 transit aggregated with direct peering at the relevant Internet Exchange.
AS2914AS174AS3356AS1299AmsterdamFrankfurtMeasured round-trip times from our NL-AMS edge to key European and North-American locations.
The specific statutes, court rulings and international positions that make Netherlands meaningful as a hosting jurisdiction — not just a marketing checkbox.
The Netherlands stopped enforcing blanket data-retention requirements in 2015 when the Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) ruled that Dutch implementation of the old EU directive violated constitutional proportionality. Enforcement of content-takedown remains strictly procedural — we respond to Dutch court orders, not to automated DMCA emails.
Hoge Raad declared the Dutch implementation of EU data-retention Directive 2006/24/EC unconstitutional. No mandatory blanket logging of connection metadata since.
US DMCA has no force in Dutch law. Content takedowns require a Dutch court order under civil procedure; we log the requests for our warrant canary and respond in writing.
Dutch GDPR implementation is rigorous but balanced — data-subject rights are enforceable, but overreach by regulators is checked by administrative-court review.
Amsterdam has hosted the world's second-largest Internet Exchange since 1997. Physical network density here is why every major cloud has a PoP here.
Cooling, power, physical access, fire suppression — the parts that don't show up on a marketing page but determine whether your server comes back after a local incident.
Both product lines run in NL-AMS. Select this location at the plan's checkout.
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