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Exoscale

European privacy‑focused cloud platform offering compute, Kubernetes, DBaaS, and storage services.

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About Exoscale

Exoscale is a privacy‑minded European cloud hosting platform offering on‑demand compute, Kubernetes, DBaaS, object storage, block storage, and GPU servers across multiple European zones. It emphasizes data sovereignty and GDPR compliance, backed by certifications such as ISO27001, CSA, and ISO27018, with data residency guaranteed by zone. The platform provides a simple UI and API access with pay‑as‑you‑go pricing billed by the second, plus DevOps tooling integrations for cloud‑native workloads.

Key features

  • Compute: High‑performance SSD cloud servers with scalable instance sizes
  • Kubernetes: Scalable Kubernetes Service with quick cluster startup
  • DBaaS: Fully managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, OpenSearch, Apache Kafka, Valkey, and Grafana
  • Storage: Object Storage (SOS) with S3‑compatible API; Block Storage; Local NVMe storage
  • GPU: GPU servers with multiple configurations for AI/ML and HPC
  • Networking: Private networking, security groups, Network Load Balancer, Elastic IPs, IPv6, Virtual Private Cloud
  • Data safety: Snapshots, anti‑affinity groups, IAM, organization management
  • Tools & APIs: Web UI, CLI, REST API, Terraform integration
  • Compliance & reliability: 99.95% SLA, GDPR compliance, ISO27001/CSA/ISO27018 certifications

Why choose Exoscale?

  • Strong European footprint with data centers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland to meet data residency needs
  • GDPR compliance and ISO certifications for data security and privacy
  • Transparent, pay‑as‑you‑go pricing with per‑second metering and no long‑term commitments
  • Easy scalability and DevOps integrations (API, Terraform) for cloud‑native workloads
  • Proactive, engineer‑led support and a broad set of managed services (DBaaS, Kubernetes, Grafana)

Pricing

  • Pricing is on a fully on‑demand, per‑second basis with no upfront costs or long‑term commitments
  • Inbound traffic and 1 TB of outbound traffic per instance per month are free; additional traffic is billed per GiB
  • Spot pricing and volume discounts available through longer commitments (volume discount overview mentioned in docs)
  • Windows licensing and various add‑on services (Elastic IPs, NLB, Private Connect, etc.) are billed separately as described in the pricing pages
  • GPU instances have dedicated pricing per size with notes on zone availability and account validation