Exoscale key facts
Last updated- Headquarters
- Switzerland (CH)
- Ownership
- Independent
- Data hosting
- Austria, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Germany, Croatia
- Deployment
- SaaS
- Open source
- No
- US Cloud Act exposure
- Low (no US parent)
- Certifications
- ISO27001, Cloud Security Alliance, ISO27018
- Replaces
- Amazon Web Services (AWS), DigitalOcean
About Exoscale
Exoscale is a European cloud infrastructure platform known as a Swiss cloud provider with additional data centers in Austria, Germany, Bulgaria and Croatia. It offers compute instances, managed Kubernetes (SKS), databases as a service, object and block storage, GPU servers, networking, virtual private cloud, DNS and CDN services. The service emphasizes GDPR compliance, strict Swiss data privacy laws, and in-country data residency guarantees (e.g., workloads created in Austria remain in Austria, and those in Germany remain in Germany). Exoscale highlights simple interfaces, team-friendly IAM/organization management, predictable pay‑as‑you‑go pricing with free internal traffic, and certifications including ISO27001 and ISO27018, alongside recognition by the Cloud Security Alliance.
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