Exoscale vs OVHcloud
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.
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.
- HeadquartersLausanne, Switzerland
- Parent companyA1 Digital International GmbH & Co KG
- Cloud since2013
- ISINAT0000720008
- Websitewww.exoscale.com
- HeadquartersRoubaix, France
- Cloud since2011
- ISINFR0014005HJ9
- Websiteovhcloud.com
Product Comparison
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
OVHcloud
78.3 %
SEAL 1
Data Centres
| Country | City | Exoscale | OVHcloud |
|---|---|---|---|
 Australia | Sydney | — | SYD1 |
 Austria | Vienna |
| — |
 Bulgaria | Sofia | BG-SOF-1 | — |
 Canada | Beauharnois | — | BHS5 |
 Croatia | Zagreb | HR-ZAG-1 | — |
 France | Gravelines | — | GRA |
| Paris | — | EU-WEST-PAR | |
| Roubaix | — | RBX-A | |
| Strasboug | — | SBG | |
 Germany | Frankfurt | DE-FRA-1 | DE1 |
| Munich | DE-MUC-1 | — | |
 India | Mumbai | — | AP-SOUTH-MUM-1 |
 Italy | Milan | — | EU-SOUTH-MIL |
 Poland | Warsaw | — | WAW1 |
 Singapore | Singapore | — | SGP1 |
 Switzerland | Geneva | CH-GVA-2 | — |
| Zurich | CH-DK-2 | — | |
 United Kingdom | London | — | UK1 |
Certifications
| Certification | Description | Exoscale | OVHcloud |
|---|---|---|---|
 BSI C5 | German cloud security catalogue | ✓ | ✓ |
 CSA STAR | Cloud Security Alliance Assurance Registry | ✓ | ✓ |
 HDS | French certification required for Health Data Hosting. Requires data management features such as high availability, automatic backups and encryption. | ✓ | — |
 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 | ✓ | ✓ |
| ISO 27701 | Requirements for Privacy Information Management System | — | ✓ |
| ISO 50001 | Standard for Energy Management System | — | ✓ |
 PCI DSS | Standard regulating protection of payment account data | — | ✓ |
 SecNumCloud | French certification framework for cloud service providers. Recognized as one of the most demanding qualification frameworks in Europe. | — | ✓ |
 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 | ✓ | — |