Exoscale vs UpCloud
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.
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.
- HeadquartersLausanne, Switzerland
- Parent companyA1 Digital International GmbH & Co KG
- Cloud since2013
- ISINAT0000720008
- Websitewww.exoscale.com
- HeadquartersHelsinki, Finland
- Parent companyUpCloud is privately owned
- Cloud since2011
- ISINnot publicly listed
- Websiteupcloud.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
UpCloud
67.0 %
SEAL 2
Data Centres
| Country | City | Exoscale | UpCloud |
|---|---|---|---|
 Australia | Sydney | — | AU-SYD1 |
 Austria | Vienna |
| — |
 Bulgaria | Sofia | BG-SOF-1 | — |
 Croatia | Zagreb | HR-ZAG-1 | — |
 Denmark | Copenhagen | — | DK-CPH1 |
 Finland | Helsinki | — |
|
 Germany | Frankfurt | DE-FRA-1 | DE-FRA1 |
| Munich | DE-MUC-1 | — | |
 Netherlands | Amsterdam | — | NL-AMS1 |
 Norway | Stavanger | — | NO-SVG1 |
 Poland | Warsaw | — | PL-WAW1 |
 Singapore | Singapore | — | SG-SIN1 |
 Spain | Madrid | — | ES-MAD1 |
 Sweden | Stockholm | — | SE-STO1 |
 Switzerland | Geneva | CH-GVA-2 | — |
| Zurich | CH-DK-2 | — | |
 United Kingdom | London | — | UK-LON1 |
 United States | Chicago | — | US-CHI1 |
| New York | — | US-NYC1 | |
| San Jose | — | US-SJO1 |
Certifications
| Certification | Description | Exoscale | UpCloud |
|---|---|---|---|
 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 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 | ✓ | — |
 SOC 2 | Controls for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, or privacy | ✓ | — |
 TISAX | Assessment mechanism concerning secure processing of information in automotive | ✓ | — |