UpCloud key facts
Last updated- Legal entity
- UpCloud Oy
- Headquarters
- Finland (FI)
- Ownership
- Independent
- Founded
- 2011
- Data hosting
- Finland, Singapore
- Infrastructure
- Self-hosted (owns and operates its own cloud platform)
- Deployment
- SaaS
- Open source
- No
- US Cloud Act exposure
- Low (no US parent)
- Replaces
- Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr
About UpCloud
UpCloud is a Finnish cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider headquartered in Helsinki. Founded in 2011, the company positions itself as a high-performance alternative to global hyperscalers, emphasizing its proprietary MaxIOPS block storage technology and a 99.999% uptime Service Level Agreement. The service caters primarily to B2B clients, including e-commerce platforms and developers seeking cloud-native infrastructure. Their product suite includes elastic cloud servers, managed databases, and Kubernetes orchestration. As a European company, UpCloud emphasizes data sovereignty and full GDPR compliance, maintaining a strong presence in the European market while operating data centers globally.
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