Best Cloud for Forex Trading Servers

Key requirements: Low latency to broker server (New York, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo), dedicated/guaranteed CPU (not burstable), 99.9%+ uptime SLA, Windows support for MetaTrader.

By location: - New York (NYSE, NASDAQ): AWS us-east-1 (best, most brokers colocate here), Vultr New York (cheaper) - London: AWS eu-west-2, Hetzner Germany (lowest latency EU), Vultr London - Frankfurt (ECB pairs): Hetzner Nuremberg (same area), AWS eu-central-1 - Tokyo (USD/JPY): AWS ap-northeast-1, Vultr Tokyo

For MetaTrader (MT4/MT5): Requires Windows. Providers with Windows support: AWS, Vultr, Hetzner, Kamatera. Recommended: 2–4 vCPU, 4–8GB RAM Windows VPS.

For Python algorithmic trading (ccxt, zipline): Run on Linux. Hetzner CX22 (€3.79/mo) is most cost-effective for non-latency-critical strategies.