Atlas Cloud vs OVHcloud

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.

OVHcloud – European cloud with a worldwide presence

OVHcloud is a mature cloud provider with 43 data centers across 9 countries, including Canada and Singapore.

OVHcloud are offering public cloud services, including higher-level services, e.g. for data platform, web hosting packages and Hosted Private Cloud and a global CDN.

Atlas Cloud
OVHcloud

Product Comparison

CategoryServiceAtlas – Your Icelandic Cloud ProviderOVHcloud – European cloud with a worldwide presence
Bare MetalBare Metal Instance—Metal InstancesMetal Instances
ComputeCompute InstanceVirtual MachinesVirtual MachinesGeneral Purpose InstancesGeneral Purpose Instances
Memory Optimised InstancesMemory Optimised Instances
Storage Optimised InstancesStorage Optimised Instances
Compute Optimised InstancesCompute Optimised Instances
Discovery InstancesDiscovery Instances
GPU Instance—Cloud GPUCloud GPU
Image Catalog—Public Image CatalogPublic Image Catalog
Private Image CatalogPrivate Image Catalog
ContainersContainer Registry—Managed Private RegistryManaged Private Registry
KubernetesManaged KubernetesManaged KubernetesManaged Rancher ServiceManaged Rancher Service
Managed Kubernetes ServiceManaged Kubernetes Service
Data & AIArtificial Intelligence—NVIDIA NGC PlatformNVIDIA NGC Platform
AI DeployAI Deploy
AI TrainingAI Training
Data Warehouse/Lakehouse—Data PlatformData Platform
ClickHouseClickHouse
Managed LLM—AI EndpointsAI Endpoints
Notebooks—AI NotebooksAI Notebooks
Search Engine—OpenSearchOpenSearch
DatabaseDocument Database—MongoDBMongoDB
Key-Value Store—ValkeyValkey
Messaging—Kafka ConnectKafka Connect
KafkaKafka
Kafka MirrorMakerKafka MirrorMaker
Relational DatabaseManaged MySQLManaged MySQL
Managed PostgreSQLManaged PostgreSQL		PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
MySQLMySQL
Managed ServicesWeb Hosting—Web HostingWeb Hosting
ManagementObservability—Logs Data PlatformLogs Data Platform
Managed DashboardsManaged Dashboards
NetworkAnti DDoS—Anti-DDoSAnti-DDoS
Direct Connect—OVHcloud connnectOVHcloud connnect
Elastic IP—Floating IPFloating IP
Gateway—GatewayGateway
Load Balancer—Load BalancerLoad Balancer
Private Network—Private NetworkPrivate Network
Quantum ComputingQuantum Computing—EmulatorsEmulators
QPUsQPUs
StorageBackup—Instance BackupInstance Backup
Block StorageBlock StorageBlock StorageBlock StorageBlock Storage
Cold Storage—Cold ArchiveCold Archive
File Storage—File StorageFile Storage
Object StorageObject StoreObject StoreObject StorageObject 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

OVHcloud

78.3 %

SEAL 1

Sovereignty Comparison

Data Centres

CountryCityAtlas CloudOVHcloud
AustraliaSydney—SYD1
CanadaBeauharnois—BHS5
FranceGravelines—GRA
Paris—EU-WEST-PAR
Roubaix—RBX-A
Strasboug—SBG
GermanyFrankfurt—DE1
IcelandReykjavíkAtlas DC—
IndiaMumbai—AP-SOUTH-MUM-1
ItalyMilan—EU-SOUTH-MIL
PolandWarsaw—WAW1
SingaporeSingapore—SGP1
United KingdomLondon—UK1

Certifications

CertificationDescriptionAtlas CloudOVHcloud
BSI C5German cloud security catalogue—✓
CSA STARCloud Security Alliance Assurance Registry—✓
ISO 27001World's best-known standard for information security management systems (ISMS)—✓
ISO 27017Information security controls for cloud services—✓
ISO 27018Guidance for protecting PII data in public clouds—✓
ISO 27701Requirements for Privacy Information Management System—✓
ISO 50001Standard for Energy Management System—✓
PCI DSSStandard regulating protection of payment account data—✓
SecNumCloudFrench certification framework for cloud service providers. Recognized as one of the most demanding qualification frameworks in Europe.—✓
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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