Nine vs UpCloud

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.

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.

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UpCloud

Product Comparison

CategoryServiceNine – Swiss-made Cloud MasteryUpCloud – Global Cloud, European Excellence
ComputeCompute InstanceManaged ServersManaged Servers
Root ServersRoot Servers		Cloud ServersCloud Servers
Private CloudPrivate Cloud
GPU InstanceGPU ServerGPU ServerGPU ServersGPU Servers
ContainersContainer RegistryContainer RegistryContainer Registry—
KubernetesManaged GKEManaged GKE
Nine Kubernetes EngineNine Kubernetes Engine		KubernetesKubernetes
Data & AISearch EngineManaged SolrManaged Solr
Managed OpenSearchManaged OpenSearch		OpenSearchOpenSearch
DatabaseKey-Value StoreManaged CacheManaged Cache
Managed RedisManaged Redis		ValkeyValkey
Relational DatabaseManaged MySQLManaged MySQL
Managed PostgreSQLManaged PostgreSQL		PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
MySQLMySQL
Managed ServicesApplication RuntimeDeploioDeploio—
NetworkCDNCloudflareCloudflareContent Delivery NetworkContent Delivery Network
DNSDNSDNS—
Elastic IP—Floating IPFloating IP
Firewall—FirewallFirewall
Gateway—NAT GatewayNAT Gateway
Load Balancer—Managed Load BalancerManaged Load Balancer
Private NetworkSubnetsSubnetsSDN Private NetworkSDN Private Network
Utility NetworkUtility Network
VPN—VPN GatewayVPN Gateway
Security & IdentityIAMManaged ShibbolethManaged Shibboleth—
StorageBackup—Simple BackupSimple Backup
Block Storage—Block StorageBlock Storage
File Storage—File StorageFile Storage
Object StorageObject StorageObject StorageManaged Object StorageManaged Object 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.

Nine

46.4 %

SEAL 1

UpCloud

67.0 %

SEAL 2

Sovereignty Comparison

Data Centres

CountryCityNineUpCloud
AustraliaSydney—AU-SYD1
DenmarkCopenhagen—DK-CPH1
FinlandHelsinki—
  • FI-HEL1
  • FI-HEL2
GermanyFrankfurt—DE-FRA1
NetherlandsAmsterdam—NL-AMS1
NorwayStavanger—NO-SVG1
PolandWarsaw—PL-WAW1
SingaporeSingapore—SG-SIN1
SpainMadrid—ES-MAD1
SwedenStockholm—SE-STO1
United KingdomLondon—UK-LON1
United StatesChicago—US-CHI1
New York—US-NYC1
San Jose—US-SJO1
UnknownUnknown
  • Nine - Zurich, Switzerland
  • Nine - Zurich, Switzerland
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Certifications

CertificationDescriptionNineUpCloud
ISO 14001Standard for environmental management systems (EMS)—✓
ISO 27001World's best-known standard for information security management systems (ISMS)✓✓
ISO 9001Standard for Quality Management✓—
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