Atlas Cloud vs T Cloud Public

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.

T Cloud Public – The cloud platform of Deutsche Telekom AG

T Cloud Public is a cloud computing service operated by Deutsche Telekom AG, formerly known as Open Telekom Cloud.

T Cloud Public has a very broad portfolio of cloud services, from a complete IaaS range over higher-level services such as managed Kubernetes and serverless functions up to data processing and AI services. The cloud product range is one of the most comprehensive ones in Europe.

T Cloud Public has data centres in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Atlas Cloud

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

T Cloud Public

HeadquartersBonn, Germany
Parent companyDeutsche Telekom AG
Cloud since2016
ISINDE0005557508
Websitewww.t-cloud-public.com

Product Comparison

Category	Service	Atlas – Your Icelandic Cloud Provider	T Cloud Public – The cloud platform of Deutsche Telekom AG
Bare Metal	Bare Metal Instance	—	Bare Metal Server (BMS)
Compute	Auto Scaling	—	Auto Scaling (AS)
	Compute Instance	Virtual Machines	Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) Dedicated Host (DeH)
	Image Catalog	—	Image Management Service (IMS)
	Serverless Function	—	FunctionGraph
Containers	Container Registry	—	Software Repository for Container
	Kubernetes	Managed Kubernetes	Cloud Container Engine (CCE)
	Serverless Container	—	Cloud Container Instance (CCI)
	Service Mesh	—	Application Service Mesh (ASM)
Data & AI	Artificial Intelligence	—	Optical Character Recognition (OCR) ModelArts (MA)
	Data Processing	—	DataArts Studio (DARTS) Big Data: Map Reduce (MRS)
	Data Warehouse/Lakehouse	—	Data Warehouse Service (DWS) Data Lake Insight (DLI)
	Ingestion	—	Data Ingestion Service (DIS)
	Managed LLM	—	LLM-Serving
	Search Engine	—	Cloud Search Service (CSS)
Database	Database Migration	—	Data Replication Service (DRS)
	Document Database	—	Document Database Service (DDS) GeminiDB
	Key-Value Store	—	Distributed Cache Service (DCS)
	Messaging	—	Distributed Message Service (DMS) Simple Message Notification (SMN)
	Relational Database	Managed MySQL Managed PostgreSQL	Distributed Database Middleware (DDM) Oracle-optimized Relational Database Service (RDS) GaussDB (für MySQL)
Management	Developer Platform	—	Resource Formation Service (RFS) Cloud Create
	Observability	—	Log Tank Service (LTS) Application Performance Management (APM) Cloud Eye (CES) Cloud Trace Service (CTS) Application Operations Management (AOM)
	Resource Management	—	Tag Management Service (TMS) Resource Management Service (RMS)
Network	Anti DDoS	—	Anti-Distributed Denial-of-Service (Anti-DDoS)
	API Gateway	—	API Gateway (APIG)
	Direct Connect	—	Direct Connect
	DNS	—	Domain Name Service (DNS)
	Elastic IP	—	Elastic IP (EIP)
	Firewall	—	Web Application Firewall (WAF) Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) Cloud Firewall (CFW)
	Gateway	—	NAT Gateway (CDN)
	Load Balancer	—	Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
	Private Network	—	VPC Endpoint (VCPEP) Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
	Router	—	Enterprise Router
	VPN	—	Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Security & Identity	Host Security	—	Host Security Service (HSS)
	IAM	—	Identity & Access Management (IAM)
	Secret Manager	—	Key Management Service (KMS)
	Security Posture Management	—	Database Security Service (DBSS)
Storage	Backup	—	Volume Backup Service (VBS) Cloud Backup and Recovery (CBR) Cloud Server Backup Service (CSBS)
	Block Storage	Block Storage	Elastic Volume Service (EVS)
	Disaster Recovery	—	Storage Disaster Recovery Service (SDRS)
	File Storage	—	Scalable File Service (SFS)
	Object Storage	Object Store	Object Storage Service (OBS)

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

T Cloud Public

77.8 %

SEAL 2

Sovereignty Comparison

Data Centres

Country	City	Atlas Cloud	T Cloud Public
Germany	Biere	—	TCP
Germany	Magdeburg	—	TCP
Iceland	Reykjavík	Atlas DC	—
Netherlands	Aalsmeer	—	TCP
Netherlands	Almere	—	TCP
Switzerland	Bern	—	TCP
Switzerland	Zollikofen	—	TCP

Certifications

Certification	Description	Atlas Cloud	T Cloud Public
BSI C5	German cloud security catalogue	—	✓
DIN EN 50600	European standard for data centers	—	✓
ENS	National Security Framework, applicable to the entire Public Sector in Spain	—	✓
ISO 27001	World's best-known standard for information security management systems (ISMS)	—	✓
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	—	✓
TISAX	Assessment mechanism concerning secure processing of information in automotive	—	✓