Nine vs T Cloud Public

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.

T Cloud Public – The cloud platform of Deutsche Telekom AG

T Cloud Public is a cloud computing service operated by Deutsche Telekom AG, formerly known as Open Telekom Cloud.

T Cloud Public has a very broad portfolio of cloud services, from a complete IaaS range over higher-level services such as managed Kubernetes and serverless functions up to data processing and AI services. The cloud product range is one of the most comprehensive ones in Europe.

T Cloud Public has data centres in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Nine

HeadquartersZurich, Switzerland
Parent companyNine Internet Solutions AG
ISIN100% employee-owned
Websitenine.ch

T Cloud Public

HeadquartersBonn, Germany
Parent companyDeutsche Telekom AG
Cloud since2016
ISINDE0005557508
Websitewww.t-cloud-public.com

Product Comparison

Category	Service	Nine – Swiss-made Cloud Mastery	T Cloud Public – The cloud platform of Deutsche Telekom AG
Bare Metal	Bare Metal Instance	—	Bare Metal Server (BMS)
Compute	Auto Scaling	—	Auto Scaling (AS)
	Compute Instance	Managed Servers Root Servers	Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) Dedicated Host (DeH)
	GPU Instance	GPU Server	—
	Image Catalog	—	Image Management Service (IMS)
	Serverless Function	—	FunctionGraph
Containers	Container Registry	Container Registry	Software Repository for Container
	Kubernetes	Managed GKE Nine Kubernetes Engine	Cloud Container Engine (CCE)
	Serverless Container	—	Cloud Container Instance (CCI)
	Service Mesh	—	Application Service Mesh (ASM)
Data & AI	Artificial Intelligence	—	Optical Character Recognition (OCR) ModelArts (MA)
	Data Processing	—	DataArts Studio (DARTS) Big Data: Map Reduce (MRS)
	Data Warehouse/Lakehouse	—	Data Warehouse Service (DWS) Data Lake Insight (DLI)
	Ingestion	—	Data Ingestion Service (DIS)
	Managed LLM	—	LLM-Serving
	Search Engine	Managed Solr Managed OpenSearch	Cloud Search Service (CSS)
Database	Database Migration	—	Data Replication Service (DRS)
	Document Database	—	Document Database Service (DDS) GeminiDB
	Key-Value Store	Managed Cache Managed Redis	Distributed Cache Service (DCS)
	Messaging	—	Distributed Message Service (DMS) Simple Message Notification (SMN)
	Relational Database	Managed MySQL Managed PostgreSQL	Distributed Database Middleware (DDM) Oracle-optimized Relational Database Service (RDS) GaussDB (für MySQL)
Managed Services	Application Runtime	Deploio	—
Management	Developer Platform	—	Resource Formation Service (RFS) Cloud Create
	Observability	—	Log Tank Service (LTS) Application Performance Management (APM) Cloud Eye (CES) Cloud Trace Service (CTS) Application Operations Management (AOM)
	Resource Management	—	Tag Management Service (TMS) Resource Management Service (RMS)
Network	Anti DDoS	—	Anti-Distributed Denial-of-Service (Anti-DDoS)
	API Gateway	—	API Gateway (APIG)
	CDN	Cloudflare	—
	Direct Connect	—	Direct Connect
	DNS	DNS	Domain Name Service (DNS)
	Elastic IP	—	Elastic IP (EIP)
	Firewall	—	Web Application Firewall (WAF) Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) Cloud Firewall (CFW)
	Gateway	—	NAT Gateway (CDN)
	Load Balancer	—	Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
	Private Network	Subnets	VPC Endpoint (VCPEP) Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
	Router	—	Enterprise Router
	VPN	—	Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Security & Identity	Host Security	—	Host Security Service (HSS)
	IAM	Managed Shibboleth	Identity & Access Management (IAM)
	Secret Manager	—	Key Management Service (KMS)
	Security Posture Management	—	Database Security Service (DBSS)
Storage	Backup	—	Volume Backup Service (VBS) Cloud Backup and Recovery (CBR) Cloud Server Backup Service (CSBS)
	Block Storage	—	Elastic Volume Service (EVS)
	Disaster Recovery	—	Storage Disaster Recovery Service (SDRS)
	File Storage	—	Scalable File Service (SFS)
	Object Storage	Object Storage	Object Storage Service (OBS)

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.

Nine

46.4 %

SEAL 1

T Cloud Public

77.8 %

SEAL 2

Sovereignty Comparison

Data Centres

Country	City	Nine	T Cloud Public
Germany	Biere	—	TCP
Germany	Magdeburg	—	TCP
Netherlands	Aalsmeer	—	TCP
Netherlands	Almere	—	TCP
Switzerland	Bern	—	TCP
Switzerland	Zollikofen	—	TCP
Unknown	Unknown	Nine - Zurich, Switzerland Nine - Zurich, Switzerland	—

Certifications

Certification	Description	Nine	T Cloud Public
BSI C5	German cloud security catalogue	—	✓
DIN EN 50600	European standard for data centers	—	✓
ENS	National Security Framework, applicable to the entire Public Sector in Spain	—	✓
ISO 27001	World's best-known standard for information security management systems (ISMS)	✓	✓
ISO 9001	Standard for Quality Management	✓	—
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	—	✓