Exoscale vs Scalingo
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.
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.
- HeadquartersLausanne, Switzerland
- Parent companyA1 Digital International GmbH & Co KG
- Cloud since2013
- ISINAT0000720008
- Websitewww.exoscale.com
- HeadquartersStrasbourg, France
- Parent companyScalingo SAS
- Cloud since2015
- ISINprivately owned
- Websitescalingo.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
60.7 %
SEAL 1
Scalingo
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Data Centres
| Country | City | Exoscale | Scalingo |
|---|---|---|---|
 Austria | Vienna |
| — |
 Bulgaria | Sofia | BG-SOF-1 | — |
 Croatia | Zagreb | HR-ZAG-1 | — |
 Germany | Frankfurt | DE-FRA-1 | — |
| Munich | DE-MUC-1 | — | |
 Switzerland | Geneva | CH-GVA-2 | — |
| Zurich | CH-DK-2 | — |
Certifications
| Certification | Description | Exoscale | Scalingo |
|---|---|---|---|
 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 | ✓ | — |
 SecNumCloud | French certification framework for cloud service providers. Recognized as one of the most demanding qualification frameworks in Europe. | — | ✓ |
 SOC 2 | Controls for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, or privacy | ✓ | — |
 TISAX | Assessment mechanism concerning secure processing of information in automotive | ✓ | — |