Atlas Cloud vs UpCloud
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.
UpCloud – Global Cloud, European Excellence
UpCloud is a European cloud provider headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. UpCloud are operating 15 data centres across 4 continents.
The service portfolio of UpCloud is not the broadest, focusing on the basic cloud primitives such as managed Kubernetes, storage and managed databases, but developer tooling around UpCloud is rich and covers all the typical developer use cases.
- HeadquartersReykjavík, Iceland
- Parent companyprivately owned
- Cloud since2025
- ISINnot publicly listed
- Websiteatlascloud.is
- HeadquartersHelsinki, Finland
- Parent companyUpCloud is privately owned
- Cloud since2011
- ISINnot publicly listed
- Websiteupcloud.com
Product Comparison
| Category | Service | Atlas – Your Icelandic Cloud Provider | UpCloud – Global Cloud, European Excellence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compute | Compute Instance |  Virtual Machines |  Cloud Servers Private Cloud |
| GPU Instance | — | GPU Servers | |
| Containers | Kubernetes |  Managed Kubernetes |  Kubernetes |
| Data & AI | Search Engine | — |  OpenSearch |
| Database | Key-Value Store | — |  Valkey |
| Relational Database |  Managed MySQLManaged PostgreSQL |  PostgreSQL MySQL | |
| Network | CDN | — |  Content Delivery Network |
| Elastic IP | — |  Floating IP | |
| Firewall | — | Firewall | |
| Gateway | — | NAT Gateway | |
| Load Balancer | — |  Managed Load Balancer | |
| Private Network | — | SDN Private NetworkUtility Network | |
| VPN | — | VPN Gateway | |
| Storage | Backup | — |  Simple Backup |
| Block Storage |  Block Storage |  Block Storage | |
| File Storage | — |  File Storage | |
| Object Storage | Object Store |  Managed 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
UpCloud
67.0 %
SEAL 2
Data Centres
| Country | City | Atlas Cloud | UpCloud |
|---|---|---|---|
 Australia | Sydney | — | AU-SYD1 |
 Denmark | Copenhagen | — | DK-CPH1 |
 Finland | Helsinki | — |
|
 Germany | Frankfurt | — | DE-FRA1 |
 Iceland | Reykjavík | Atlas DC | — |
 Netherlands | Amsterdam | — | NL-AMS1 |
 Norway | Stavanger | — | NO-SVG1 |
 Poland | Warsaw | — | PL-WAW1 |
 Singapore | Singapore | — | SG-SIN1 |
 Spain | Madrid | — | ES-MAD1 |
 Sweden | Stockholm | — | SE-STO1 |
 United Kingdom | London | — | UK-LON1 |
 United States | Chicago | — | US-CHI1 |
| New York | — | US-NYC1 | |
| San Jose | — | US-SJO1 |
Certifications
| Certification | Description | Atlas Cloud | UpCloud |
|---|---|---|---|
 ISO 14001 | Standard for environmental management systems (EMS) | — | ✓ |
| ISO 27001 | World's best-known standard for information security management systems (ISMS) | — | ✓ |