Exoscale: European Public Cloud
Simple. Sovereign. Sustainable
Who is Exoscale?
Exoscale was founded in 2011, is headquartered in Switzerland, and is member of A1 Digital - part of the A1 Group. The cloud provider empowers businesses and engineers to run their workloads and applications securely in the cloud. The user-friendly, reliable, and high-performing platform makes Exoscale an ideal partner for cloud-native deployments. With the rigorous focus on security and data protection, Exoscale ensures safe, GDPR-compliant cloud usage at every step.
What is Exoscale's European public cloud?
Your trusted cloud partner. Exoscale is a European cloud provider offering secure, reliable, and GDPR-compliant cloud services. Based in Switzerland and with data centers in Vienna, Exoscale, together with A1, offers a secure and sustainable cloud infrastructure that complies with European data protection standards.
Transparent and simple pricing: You always know exactly what you're paying for. Resources are billed by the second – with no hidden costs.
Free support: Support in German and free consultation hours to kick-start your project.
Sustainability: Exoscale is committed to keeping the CO₂ footprint of its infrastructure as low as possible, for example, by using innovative cooling methods, and offers reports that analyze these.
Exoscale Services
Services
Everything for your Cloud Native Workloads
Comprehensive cloud computing services:
- Compute instances
- Object storage
- Block storage
- Database-as-a-service (DBaaS)
- Managed Kubernetes (SKS)
- GPU servers
- DNS
- And many more
AI
High-performance GPU servers for AI applications
✓ State-of-the-art data center managed by A1.
✓ Sustainable operation thanks to liquid cooling.
✓ GDPR compliant: Data remains in Austria.
Exoscale's European public cloud is ideal for:
- Complex AI training and deep learning.
- High-performance computing tasks and advanced simulations.
- GPUs: NIVIDA RTX 3080 T, NIVIDA RTX A5000, NVIDIA A30, NVIDIA A40, and other models.
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Research & Education
Sovereign Public Cloud for Research & Education
- Highest performance and availability for compute-intensive applications.
- Data storage and processing exclusively in Europe.
- Flexible and secure infrastructure for educational and research projects.
- Access to state-of-the-art cloud technology with easy booking.
Exoscale is part of the Open Clouds for Research Environments (OCRE) catalog and offers European educational and research institutions a powerful, GDPR-compliant cloud platform.
The OCRE initiative provides institutions with simple and cost-effective access to cloud services – without a competitive bidding process.
FAQs
Can I try Exoscale for free?
When you register a new account on Exoscale, you may be entitled to free credit to test the platform. To receive the credit, we ask you to save your credit card during the registration process by accessing our platform in postpaid billing mode. When you save your credit card, Exoscale reserves an amount of €20 on it. The card will not actually be charged; the amount is only pre-authorized and will be released by your credit card provider according to their own rules (usually 30 days or at the end of the month). After successful registration, €20 will be immediately credited to your account, and you can try our services for free.
When you save your credit card, your account will be switched to postpaid billing. If you use more than the free allowance, your credit card will be charged accordingly. Otherwise, you will not be charged, and you can choose to leave or close your account at any time without incurring any fees.
Exoscale reserves the right to withhold free credit for multiple registrations and to allow the offered credit to expire.
How is Exoscale billed?
Unless otherwise noted, most resources are billed to the second based on exact usage. Credit is updated hourly.
Whitepaper: Cloud Act vs. GDPR
In this whitepaper, Dennis G. Jansen, an expert in international IT and data protection law, explains the contradictory regulations and fundamentally different motivations of the US-CLOUD Act and EU-GDPR. This helps decision-makers to identify cloud providers that enable a smooth and compliant partnership.