What is Exoscale?
Exoscale is a European cloud infrastructure provider. The brand is a trademark of Akenes SA, a private company founded in 2011, and the service started in Switzerland before expanding into Austria, Germany, Bulgaria and Croatia. Exoscale is a member of A1 Digital and presents itself as a European alternative to the large American cloud providers.
The platform covers SSD-backed compute instances, GPU servers with one to eight NVIDIA cards per instance, managed Kubernetes where Exoscale runs the control plane, S3-compatible object storage across eight European zones, block storage, managed databases and networking such as virtual private clouds. Managed database engines named on the site include PostgreSQL, MySQL, OpenSearch, Valkey, Kafka and ClickHouse. The site also lists Concrete AI, an AI infrastructure suite from GPUs to inference endpoints.
Resources are billed by the second at a flat rate across all zones, with no up-front costs and no long-term commitments.
Key capabilities
- SSD-backed compute instances billed by the second.
- GPU servers with 1 to 8 NVIDIA cards per instance.
- Managed Kubernetes, with the control plane run by Exoscale.
- S3-compatible object storage across 8 European zones, plus block storage with reattachable volumes.
- Managed databases, including Kafka for event streaming.
- Networking with virtual private clouds, subnets, routing and security groups.
Where Exoscale fits
- Compute instances and GPU servers.
- Managed Kubernetes.
- Object, block and archival storage in European zones.
- Managed databases (DBaaS) for open-source engines.
- Networking: virtual private cloud, subnets and routing.
- Security: key management service you control and IAM.
- Concrete AI for GPU and inference workloads.
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