Exoscale vs Nine

Exoscale – a solid European cloud hosting alternative

Exoscale offer a full range of IaaS services. Especially noteworthy are the DBaaS services for managed Apache Kafka, managed OpenSearch and managed Grafana.

Exoscale are operating 7 data centers across Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Croatia and Bulgaria.

Exoscale is owned by A1, the Austrian telecommunication company.

Nine – Swiss-made Cloud Mastery

Nine is an application platform by Nine Internet Solutions in Switzerland. While Nine Internet Solutions offers classic colocation and managed hosting solutions, the distinctive product is the Deploio application engine.

Nine is currently brought to the world from two data centers in the Zürich region in Switzerland.

Exoscale

Product Comparison

CategoryServiceExoscale – a solid European cloud hosting alternativeNine – Swiss-made Cloud Mastery
ComputeCompute InstanceCompute InstancesCompute InstancesManaged ServersManaged Servers
Root ServersRoot Servers
GPU InstanceGPU2 ServerGPU2 Server
GPU1 ServerGPU1 Server
GPU3 ServerGPU3 Server
3080ti Server3080ti Server
A5000 ServerA5000 Server		GPU ServerGPU Server
ContainersContainer Registry—Container RegistryContainer Registry
KubernetesScalable Kubernetes ServiceScalable Kubernetes ServiceManaged GKEManaged GKE
Nine Kubernetes EngineNine Kubernetes Engine
Data & AIData Warehouse/LakehouseManaged ClickHouse®Managed ClickHouse®—
Search EngineManaged OpenSearchManaged OpenSearchManaged SolrManaged Solr
Managed OpenSearchManaged OpenSearch
DatabaseKey-Value StoreManaged ValkeyManaged ValkeyManaged CacheManaged Cache
Managed RedisManaged Redis
MessagingManaged Apache KafkaManaged Apache Kafka—
Relational DatabaseManaged MySQLManaged MySQL
Managed PostgreSQLManaged PostgreSQL		Managed MySQLManaged MySQL
Managed PostgreSQLManaged PostgreSQL
Managed ServicesApplication Runtime—DeploioDeploio
ManagementObservabilityManaged GrafanaManaged Grafana—
NetworkCDNCDNCDNCloudflareCloudflare
Direct ConnectPrivate ConnectPrivate Connect—
DNSDNSDNSDNSDNS
Elastic IPElastic IPElastic IP—
FirewallSecurity GroupsSecurity Groups—
Load BalancerNetwork Load BalancerNetwork Load Balancer—
Private NetworkPrivate NetworksPrivate NetworksSubnetsSubnets
Security & IdentityIAM—Managed ShibbolethManaged Shibboleth
StorageBlock StorageBlock StorageBlock Storage—
Cold StorageArchival StorageArchival Storage—
Object StorageObject StorageObject StorageObject 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.

Exoscale

59.8 %

SEAL 1

Nine

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Sovereignty Comparison

Data Centres

CountryCityExoscaleNine
AustriaVienna
  • AT-VIE-1
  • AT-VIE-2
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BulgariaSofiaBG-SOF-1—
CroatiaZagrebHR-ZAG-1—
GermanyFrankfurtDE-FRA-1—
MunichDE-MUC-1—
SwitzerlandGenevaCH-GVA-2—
ZurichCH-DK-2—
UnknownUnknown—
  • Nine - Zurich, Switzerland
  • Nine - Zurich, Switzerland

Certifications

CertificationDescriptionExoscaleNine
BSI C5German cloud security catalogue✓—
CSA STARCloud Security Alliance Assurance Registry✓—
HDSFrench certification required for Health Data Hosting. Requires data management features such as high availability, automatic backups and encryption.✓—
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 9001Standard for Quality Management—✓
SOC 2Controls for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, or privacy✓—
TISAXAssessment mechanism concerning secure processing of information in automotive✓—
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