Scalingo vs UpCloud

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.

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.

UpCloud

Product Comparison

CategoryServiceScalingo – Deploy at lightning speedUpCloud – Global Cloud, European Excellence
ComputeAuto ScalingScaling & Auto-scalerScaling & Auto-scaler—
Compute Instance—Cloud ServersCloud Servers
Private CloudPrivate Cloud
GPU Instance—GPU ServersGPU Servers
ContainersContainer RegistryScalingo Docker Image AddonScalingo Docker Image Addon—
Kubernetes—KubernetesKubernetes
Data & AISearch Engineknn (for Opensearch®)knn (for Opensearch®)
ML (for Opensearch®)ML (for Opensearch®)
Managed OpenSearch® hostingManaged OpenSearch® hosting		OpenSearchOpenSearch
DatabaseKey-Value StoreManaged in-memory NoSQL databaseManaged in-memory NoSQL databaseValkeyValkey
Relational DatabaseManaged PostgreSQL® hostingManaged PostgreSQL® hosting
pgvector (for PostgreSQL®)pgvector (for PostgreSQL®)
Managed MySQL® hostingManaged MySQL® hosting		PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
MySQLMySQL
Managed ServicesApplication RuntimeReview AppsReview Apps
BuildpacksBuildpacks		—
ManagementDeveloper PlatformCI/CDCI/CD
RollbackRollback
One Click DeployOne Click Deploy		—
Job SchedulerCustom Clock ProcessesCustom Clock Processes
Scalingo SchedulerScalingo Scheduler		—
ObservabilityLogs & Log DrainsLogs & Log Drains
Application MetricsApplication Metrics		—
NetworkCDN—Content Delivery NetworkContent Delivery Network
Elastic IP—Floating IPFloating IP
FirewallWAFWAFFirewallFirewall
GatewayTCP Gateway AddonTCP Gateway AddonNAT GatewayNAT Gateway
Load Balancer—Managed Load BalancerManaged Load Balancer
Private NetworkPrivate NetworkingPrivate NetworkingSDN Private NetworkSDN Private Network
Utility NetworkUtility Network
VPNScalingo VPNC IPSec AddonScalingo VPNC IPSec Addon
Scalingo OpenVPN AddonScalingo OpenVPN Addon		VPN GatewayVPN Gateway
StorageBackup—Simple BackupSimple Backup
Block Storage—Block StorageBlock Storage
File Storage—File StorageFile Storage
Object Storage—Managed 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.

Scalingo

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UpCloud

67.0 %

SEAL 2

Sovereignty Comparison

Data Centres

CountryCityScalingoUpCloud
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

Certifications

CertificationDescriptionScalingoUpCloud
HDSFrench certification required for Health Data Hosting. Requires data management features such as high availability, automatic backups and encryption.✓—
ISO 14001Standard for environmental management systems (EMS)—✓
ISO 27001World's best-known standard for information security management systems (ISMS)✓✓
SecNumCloudFrench certification framework for cloud service providers. Recognized as one of the most demanding qualification frameworks in Europe.✓—
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