Atlas Cloud vs Exoscale
Atlas – Your Icelandic Cloud Provider
Atlas was founded to solve a critical gap in Iceland's tech ecosystem: the lack of locally-hosted, sovereign cloud infrastructure. Atlas comes out of the Startup SuperNova accelerator and is operated from green Icelandic data centers.
The Atlas Cloud is built based on CloudStack, with the service portfolio currently being built up. Basic primitives such as VMs, and storage are in place.
Exoscale – a solid European cloud hosting alternative
Exoscale offer a full range of IaaS services. Especially noteworthy are the DBaaS services for managed Apache Kafka, managed OpenSearch and managed Grafana.
Exoscale are operating 7 data centers across Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Croatia and Bulgaria.
Exoscale is owned by A1, the Austrian telecommunication company.
- HeadquartersReykjavík, Iceland
- Parent companyprivately owned
- Cloud since2025
- ISINnot publicly listed
- Websiteatlascloud.is
- HeadquartersLausanne, Switzerland
- Parent companyA1 Digital International GmbH & Co KG
- Cloud since2013
- ISINAT0000720008
- Websitewww.exoscale.com
Product Comparison
| Category | Service | Atlas – Your Icelandic Cloud Provider | Exoscale – a solid European cloud hosting alternative |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compute | Compute Instance |  Virtual Machines |  Compute Instances |
| GPU Instance | — |  GPU2 ServerGPU1 ServerGPU3 Server3080ti ServerA5000 Server | |
| Containers | Kubernetes |  Managed Kubernetes |  Scalable Kubernetes Service |
| Data & AI | Data Warehouse/Lakehouse | — |  Managed ClickHouse® |
| Search Engine | — |  Managed OpenSearch | |
| Database | Key-Value Store | — |  Managed Valkey |
| Messaging | — |  Managed Apache Kafka | |
| Relational Database |  Managed MySQLManaged PostgreSQL |  Managed MySQL Managed PostgreSQL | |
| Management | Observability | — |  Managed Grafana |
| Network | CDN | — |  CDN |
| Direct Connect | — |  Private Connect | |
| DNS | — |  DNS | |
| Elastic IP | — |  Elastic IP | |
| Firewall | — |  Security Groups | |
| Load Balancer | — |  Network Load Balancer | |
| Private Network | — |  Private Networks | |
| Storage | Block Storage |  Block Storage |  Block Storage |
| Cold Storage | — |  Archival Storage | |
| Object Storage | Object Store | Object Storage |
Sovereignty
Sovereignty assessment side by side, following the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework with its 8 objectives. Higher is better; the area shows each provider's coverage across all objectives.
Disclaimer: this assessment is conducted as an outside-in analysis, based on public information and, for some questions, educated guessing. The results may be factually wrong and in no way replace your own due diligence.
Atlas Cloud
56.7 %
SEAL 1
Exoscale
60.7 %
SEAL 1
Data Centres
| Country | City | Atlas Cloud | Exoscale |
|---|---|---|---|
 Austria | Vienna | — |
|
 Bulgaria | Sofia | — | BG-SOF-1 |
 Croatia | Zagreb | — | HR-ZAG-1 |
 Germany | Frankfurt | — | DE-FRA-1 |
| Munich | — | DE-MUC-1 | |
 Iceland | Reykjavík | Atlas DC | — |
 Switzerland | Geneva | — | CH-GVA-2 |
| Zurich | — | CH-DK-2 |
Certifications
| Certification | Description | Atlas Cloud | Exoscale |
|---|---|---|---|
 BSI C5 | German cloud security catalogue | — | ✓ |
 CSA STAR | Cloud Security Alliance Assurance Registry | — | ✓ |
 HDS | French certification required for Health Data Hosting. Requires data management features such as high availability, automatic backups and encryption. | — | ✓ |
 ISO 27001 | World's best-known standard for information security management systems (ISMS) | — | ✓ |
| ISO 27017 | Information security controls for cloud services | — | ✓ |
| ISO 27018 | Guidance for protecting PII data in public clouds | — | ✓ |
 SOC 2 | Controls for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, or privacy | — | ✓ |
 TISAX | Assessment mechanism concerning secure processing of information in automotive | — | ✓ |