Atlas Cloud vs IONOS

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.

IONOS – Future-proof cloud infrastructure from Germany

IONOS is a German hosting and domain provider that is offering more and more cloud computing products.

The company was formerly known as 1&1 Internet. It was rebranded to reflect the development from a pure hosting provider to a service provider with a broad portfolio.

The public cloud service encompasses the typical building blocks around VPCs, managed database, managed Kubernetes, etc.

Atlas Cloud

HeadquartersReykjavík, Iceland
Parent companyprivately owned
Cloud since2025
ISINnot publicly listed
Websiteatlascloud.is

IONOS

HeadquartersMontabaur, Deutschland
Parent companyUnited Internet AG
Cloud since2020
ISINDE000A3E00M1
Websitewww.ionos.de

Product Comparison

Category	Service	Atlas – Your Icelandic Cloud Provider	IONOS – Future-proof cloud infrastructure from Germany
Bare Metal	Bare Metal Instance	—	Bare Metal Servers
Compute	Compute Instance	Virtual Machines	Compute Engine Cubes
Compute	GPU Instance	—	GPU Servers
Containers	Container Registry	—	Private Container Registry
Containers	Kubernetes	Managed Kubernetes	Managed Kubernetes
Data & AI	Data Warehouse/Lakehouse	—	Managed Stackable Data Platform
Data & AI	Managed LLM	—	AI Model Hub
Database	Document Database	—	MongoDB Database as a Service
	Key-Value Store	—	Redis Database as a Service
	Messaging	—	Event Streams for Apache Kafka
	Relational Database	Managed MySQL Managed PostgreSQL	PostgreSQL Database as a Service Managed Database Services
Management	Observability	—	Monitoring as a Service Flow Logs
Network	Anti DDoS	—	DDoS Protect
	API Gateway	—	API Gateway
	CDN	—	Content Delivery Network (CDN)
	DNS	—	Cloud DNS
	Gateway	—	Managed NAT Gateway
	Load Balancer	—	Managed Application Load Balancer Managed Network Load Balancer
	VPN	—	VPN Gateway
Storage	Backup	—	Backup Service
	Block Storage	Block Storage	Block Storage
	File Storage	—	Network File Storage (NFS)
	Object Storage	Object Store	IONOS 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

IONOS

77.2 %

SEAL 2

Sovereignty Comparison

Data Centres

Country	City	Atlas Cloud	IONOS
France	Paris	—	IONOS
Germany	Berlin	—	IONOS
Germany	Frankfurt	—	IONOS IONOS
Iceland	Reykjavík	Atlas DC	—
Spain	Logroño	—	IONOS
United Kingdom	London	—	IONOS
United Kingdom	Worcester	—	IONOS
United States	Las Vegas	—	IONOS
	Lenexa	—	IONOS
	Newark	—	IONOS

Certifications

Certification	Description	Atlas Cloud	IONOS
BSI C5	German cloud security catalogue	—	✓
ISO 20000	International standard for IT service management	—	✓
ISO 27001	World's best-known standard for information security management systems (ISMS)	—	✓
ISO 50001	Standard for Energy Management System	—	✓
ISO 9001	Standard for Quality Management	—	✓
PCI DSS	Standard regulating protection of payment account data	—	✓
SOC 1	Validation of internal controls over financial reporting	—	✓
SOC 2	Controls for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, or privacy	—	✓
SOC 3	Controls for security, availability, integrity, confidentiality and privacy for distribution	—	✓