Reykjavík, Iceland — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.
Cycle.io, a unified control plane that provisions infrastructure and runs deployments, without the need for a dedicated operations team, and Cherry Servers, a European bare metal and cloud hosting provider, today announced a native infrastructure integration that lets Cycle customers provision, manage, and scale Cherry Servers bare metal directly through Cycle's control plane.
Through this integration, Cherry Servers becomes a native infrastructure provider on the Cycle platform. With a single API key, Cycle customers can now provision Cherry Servers bare metal, image it with CycleOS, and manage its full lifecycle, from deployment to scaling to teardown, without ever logging into the Cherry Servers console.
"Over the last year, we've seen a massive swing to bare metal. Companies that have defaulted to the cloud over the last decade are now rethinking their infrastructure to optimize for performance, density, and cost," said Jake Warner, CEO at Cycle.io. "While bare metal was all the rage in the mid-2000s, its popularity decreased due to the amount of effort required to provision new servers and deploy applications to them. Now, with Cycle, teams can have a cloud-like experience on top of any raw compute."
"As European organizations increasingly prioritize data sovereignty and local infrastructure, we're excited to partner with a fully European-owned cloud provider to strengthen the Cycle ecosystem," said Alexander Mattoni, Head of Engineering at Cycle.io. "It's important that our clients have choice and flexibility in where they run their critical infrastructure."
"It's also a strong addition to our offering: Cycle gives teams a powerful way to orchestrate containers without the operational burden of Kubernetes," said Vaidas Rutkauskas, CEO at Cherry Servers. "Through Cycle, they get that same outcome without having to run and maintain Kubernetes on their own — with the added benefit of running on bare metal, which brings stronger performance and more predictable costs than a managed Kubernetes service on the cloud.”
Built for European Infrastructure
Cherry Servers operates data centers in Lithuania, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Stockholm, with additional locations in Singapore, Tokyo, and Chicago, giving Cycle customers bare metal from an EU-headquartered provider, deployable close to their users.
This complements Cycle's own EU control plane, which runs on a fully separate set of European hosting providers with no shared infrastructure with Cycle's US control plane, falling outside the reach of the US Cloud Act.
Together, this lets European organizations keep both their workloads and their orchestration layer fully in-region, a part of a broader shift toward cloud repatriation, as organizations look to reduce hyperscaler lock-in and regain control over where their data lives.
Even if Cycle's control plane were to experience downtime, workloads already running on Cherry Servers' bare metal continue operating uninterrupted, and customers retain full ownership of their data at all times.
Automation From End to End
The integration is built on Cherry Servers' full API surface, alongside support for custom ISO/iPXE boot required to run CycleOS. Hourly billing via API lets Cycle scale Cherry Servers' dedicated hardware elastically, similar to a cloud VM, without long-term commitments. This gives teams the cost predictability of bare metal with the flexibility of the cloud, and the raw performance of dedicated, non-virtualized hardware.
Responding to a Broader Shift Toward European Infrastructure
The partnership arrives as more European organizations reassess their reliance on US hyperscalers, driven by data sovereignty requirements and rising cloud costs. Cycle reports that a majority of its customers have also evaluated alternatives such as bare metal, often citing significant cost savings.
For example, iPaper, a European retail technology company serving 100 million unique visits per month, moved from AWS to a multi-provider bare metal setup after data sovereignty concerns began blocking enterprise contracts. The move resulted in 25–30% infrastructure cost savings and an additional $156,000 in annual savings, while unblocking stalled deals with European enterprise customers.
Unlike a shift to on-premises hardware, customers moving to Cherry Servers through Cycle use bare metal cloud infrastructure, avoiding the maintenance and provisioning responsibilities of owning physical servers outright. The Cherry Servers integration is available now to all Cycle customers.
About Cycle
Cycle is a unified control plane built to support more than just day one operations, giving teams a platform that provisions infrastructure, streamlines deployments and does not require a dedicated operations team. Learn more at Cycle.io.
About Cherry Servers
Cherry Servers is a European bare metal and cloud hosting provider offering dedicated bare metal servers and VPS cloud infrastructure across data centers in Lithuania, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Stockholm, as well as global locations in Chicago, Singapore, and Tokyo. Cherry Servers provides a full API, CLI, and infrastructure-as-code tooling for teams that want programmatic control over their infrastructure, backed by 24/7 human support. Learn more at cherryservers.com.
Media Contacts
Media Contact: pr@cycle.io