ELASTX vs Scalingo

ELASTX – The Swedish Cloud Provider

ELASTX is a Swedish cloud provider operating three data centers located within the Stockholm metropolitan area.

Their service portfolio includes core Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings such as compute, storage, database, and networking solutions. In addition, ELASTX provides a managed Kubernetes service to support containerized applications.

What sets ELASTX apart is their commitment to delivering tailored, bespoke solutions in close collaboration with their clients.

Scalingo – Deploy at lightning speed

Scalingo is a European cloud provider offering both Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solutions.

Founded in France, the company delivers a fully managed platform that enables organizations to deploy, operate, and scale applications and data without managing underlying infrastructure.

Elastx

HeadquartersStockholm, Sweden
Parent companyElastx seems to be owned by Southrock Asset Management
Cloud since2012
Websiteelastx.se

Product Comparison

Category	Service	ELASTX – The Swedish Cloud Provider	Scalingo – Deploy at lightning speed
Compute	Auto Scaling	—	Scaling & Auto-scaler
	Compute Instance	OpenStack IaaS	—
	GPU Instance	GPU	—
Containers	Container Registry	—	Scalingo Docker Image Addon
Containers	Kubernetes	Kubernetes CaaS	—
Data & AI	Artificial Intelligence	AI services	—
Data & AI	Search Engine	—	knn (for Opensearch®) ML (for Opensearch®) Managed OpenSearch® hosting
Database	Key-Value Store	Valkey	Managed in-memory NoSQL database
Database	Relational Database	MSSQL DBaaS PostgreSQL DBaaS MariaDB DBaaS MySQL DBaaS	Managed PostgreSQL® hosting pgvector (for PostgreSQL®) Managed MySQL® hosting
Managed Services	Application Runtime	Virtuozzo PaaS	Review Apps Buildpacks
Managed Services	E-Mail	Mail Relay	—
Management	Developer Platform	—	CI/CD Rollback One Click Deploy
	Job Scheduler	—	Custom Clock Processes Scalingo Scheduler
	Observability	Application Monitoring	Logs & Log Drains Application Metrics
Network	Anti DDoS	DDoS Protection	—
	CDN	Varnish CDN	—
	Direct Connect	Cloud Exchange Cloud Connect	—
	Firewall	Web Application Firewall	WAF
	Gateway	—	TCP Gateway Addon
	Private Network	—	Private Networking
	VPN	Cloud VPN	Scalingo VPNC IPSec Addon Scalingo OpenVPN Addon
Security & Identity	Security Posture Management	Threat Intelligence	—
Storage	Backup	The Vault Object Storage	—
	Block Storage	Block Storage	—
	Object Storage	Swift 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.

ELASTX

70.1 %

SEAL 1

Scalingo

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Sovereignty Comparison

Data Centres

Country	City	ELASTX	Scalingo
Sweden	Stockholm	Elastx STO2 Elastx STO1 Elastx STO3	—

Certifications

Certification	Description	ELASTX	Scalingo
HDS	French certification required for Health Data Hosting. Requires data management features such as high availability, automatic backups and encryption.	—	✓
ISO 14001	Standard for environmental management systems (EMS)	✓	—
ISO 27001	World's best-known standard for information security management systems (ISMS)	✓	✓
ISO 27017	Information security controls for cloud services	✓	—
ISO 27018	Guidance for protecting PII data in public clouds	✓	—
SecNumCloud	French certification framework for cloud service providers. Recognized as one of the most demanding qualification frameworks in Europe.	—	✓