Atlas Cloud vs IONOS

Atlas – Your Icelandic Cloud Provider

Atlas is the Icelandic regional sovereign cloud. Based on CloudStack and operated from green data centers in Iceland.

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
IONOS

Product Comparison

CategoryServiceAtlas – Your Icelandic Cloud ProviderIONOS – Future-proof cloud infrastructure from Germany
Bare MetalBare Metal Instance—Bare Metal ServersBare Metal Servers
ComputeCompute InstanceVirtual MachinesVirtual MachinesCompute EngineCompute Engine
CubesCubes
GPU Instance—GPU ServersGPU Servers
ContainersContainer Registry—Private Container RegistryPrivate Container Registry
KubernetesManaged KubernetesManaged KubernetesManaged KubernetesManaged Kubernetes
Data & AIData Warehouse/Lakehouse—Managed Stackable Data PlatformManaged Stackable Data Platform
Managed LLM—AI Model HubAI Model Hub
DatabaseDocument Database—MongoDB Database as a ServiceMongoDB Database as a Service
Key-Value Store—Redis Database as a ServiceRedis Database as a Service
Messaging—Event Streams for Apache KafkaEvent Streams for Apache Kafka
Relational DatabaseManaged MySQLManaged MySQL
Managed PostgreSQLManaged PostgreSQL		PostgreSQL Database as a ServicePostgreSQL Database as a Service
Managed Database ServicesManaged Database Services
ManagementObservability—Monitoring as a ServiceMonitoring as a Service
Flow LogsFlow Logs
NetworkAnti DDoS—DDoS ProtectDDoS Protect
API Gateway—API GatewayAPI Gateway
CDN—Content Delivery Network (CDN)Content Delivery Network (CDN)
DNS—Cloud DNSCloud DNS
Gateway—Managed NAT GatewayManaged NAT Gateway
Load Balancer—Managed Application Load BalancerManaged Application Load Balancer
Managed Network Load BalancerManaged Network Load Balancer
VPN—VPN GatewayVPN Gateway
StorageBackup—Backup ServiceBackup Service
Block StorageBlock StorageBlock StorageBlock StorageBlock Storage
File Storage—Network File Storage (NFS)Network File Storage (NFS)
Object StorageObject StoreObject StoreIONOS Object StorageIONOS 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

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IONOS

77.2 %

SEAL 2

Sovereignty Comparison

Data Centres

CountryCityAtlas CloudIONOS
FranceParis—IONOS
GermanyBerlin—IONOS
Frankfurt—
  • IONOS
  • IONOS
SpainLogroño—IONOS
United KingdomLondon—IONOS
Worcester—IONOS
United StatesLas Vegas—IONOS
Lenexa—IONOS
Newark—IONOS
UnknownUnknownAtlas DC—

Certifications

CertificationDescriptionAtlas CloudIONOS
BSI C5German cloud security catalogue—✓
ISO 20000International standard for IT service management—✓
ISO 27001World's best-known standard for information security management systems (ISMS)—✓
ISO 50001Standard for Energy Management System—✓
ISO 9001Standard for Quality Management—✓
PCI DSSStandard regulating protection of payment account data—✓
SOC 1Validation of internal controls over financial reporting—✓
SOC 2Controls for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, or privacy—✓
SOC 3Controls for security, availability, integrity, confidentiality and privacy for distribution—✓
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