Exoscale
🇨🇭 CH
3.3/5· 8 reviews across 3 portals
Swiss cloud infrastructure with EU data centres, ISO 27001 and predictable per-gigabyte pricing.
Features
Compute Services
- High-performance SSD cloud servers
- Self-sustained zones for resilient deployments
- Snapshots and custom templates for instances
- Instance Pools for managing groups of machines
- Anti-affinity groups for workload distribution
- IAM and organization management
AI Workloads
- Dedicated NVIDIA GPUs for AI workloads
- Production-ready inference API endpoints
- Managed vector databases for RAG and semantic search
- OpenAI-compatible APIs without vendor lock-in
- Fully managed inference on dedicated, isolated hardware
Kubernetes
- Scalable Kubernetes Service
- Kubernetes clusters ready in 120 seconds
- Scale worker nodes up and down
- Full control plane lifecycle management
- Support for CLI, API, portal, and Terraform
- Deep integration with Network Load Balancer
Database as a Service
- Fully managed database services
- Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache Kafka, OpenSearch, and Valkey
- Managed Grafana for monitoring
- Databases ready in minutes
- End-to-end GDPR compliance
Storage
- Highly available multi-redundancy object storage
- Low-latency, high-bandwidth HTTP(s) access (public or private)
- S3-compatible API for tool integration
- Same-zone and cross-zone bucket replication
- Ultra-low latency for high-performance workloads
- Multiple volumes per instance attachable
- Highly available NVMe-based architecture with data replication
Networking & Security
- Dual 25 Gbps secure private networking
- Security groups for firewall rule management
- Network Load Balancer for traffic distribution
- Elastic IP addresses
- IPv6 support for instances
Pricing
Exoscale operates on a pay-as-you-go model with no long-term commitments. Prices are calculated per second and vary by resource usage (e.g., compute instances, storage, traffic). Use the official pricing calculator for exact costs.
EU Trust Profile
What we verified against public sources, last checked 2026-10-02. Every point links to its evidence.
- Evidence →EU data residency
All Exoscale zones are located exclusively within the European Economic Area (EEA).
- Evidence →Data Processing Agreement (DPA)
Public DPA template available and electronically signable in the customer portal.
- Evidence →Public sub-processor list
Detailed subprocessor information (e.g., Equinix, A1 Telekom Austria Group, Aiven Oy) is publicly available.
- Evidence →Trust center / security page
Public compliance overview and authenticated Compliance Center accessible from the Exoscale Portal.
- Evidence →ISO 27001ISO/IEC 27001:2022
- Evidence →ISO/IEC 27017ISO/IEC 27017:2015
- Evidence →ISO/IEC 27018ISO/IEC 27018:2019
- Evidence →BSI C5BSI C5 Type 2
- Evidence →TISAXLevel 2
- Evidence →SOC 2SOC 2 Type 2
- Evidence →Documented data export
Dedicated guide and policy on data portability and export, including technical guides for VM snapshots and object storage.
We list only what we could verify against a public source on the check date. A point that is absent was not established either way — it is not a finding against the vendor. The vendor's own information prevails.
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Reviews
Recurring themes, synthesized from public reviews across portals.
What users value
- Intuitive, user-friendly interface that simplifies cloud management and reduces onboarding time
- High performance and reliability with SSD-powered servers and robust infrastructure for mission-critical workloads
- Strong GDPR compliance and data sovereignty with data centers in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and other European locations
- Transparent pay-as-you-go pricing with no hidden fees, ensuring cost efficiency
- Competent and responsive customer support via phone and ticketing, with quick resolution times
- Comprehensive cloud services including scalable compute instances, managed Kubernetes, databases, and integrated Akamai CDN
- Automation-friendly with support for APIs, CLI tools, and Terraform for DevOps workflows
Where users see room to improve
- · Limited volume of public user reviews, reducing the breadth of available feedback
- · Initial setup and onboarding could be improved with more streamlined guidance
- · No live chat or social media support channels, which some users find restrictive
Ratings across portals
Linked facts, we bring ratings from every portal together in one place.
Integrations
Exoscale: frequently asked questions
- Which tools does Exoscale integrate with?
- Exoscale connects with Terraform, Kubernetes, OpenAI-compatible APIs, S3-compatible API, CLI tools, SDKs and Grafana.
- Where does Exoscale store its data?
- All Exoscale zones are located exclusively within the European Economic Area (EEA). Public DPA template available and electronically signable in the customer portal.
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Feature, pricing and integration details are based on web research (as of 2026-06-21), without guarantee, errors are possible. The vendor's website prevails.