Exoscale

US alternative: Amazon Web Services

Swiss cloud infrastructure platform offering compute, Kubernetes, managed databases, storage, networking and GPU services.

Fully European

Overview

Exoscale is an infrastructure-as-a-service platform for deploying and operating cloud workloads. It provides virtual machines, managed Kubernetes, managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, OpenSearch and Valkey, object and block storage, GPU servers, networking, load balancing and a CDN. Developers can manage services through the web console, APIs, CLI and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.

Why it is listed

Replaces

Amazon Web Services

European signal

Reviewed as strongly European-aligned

Privacy and hosting notes

Official materials identify Akenes SA in Switzerland and describe Swiss-operated services; processing and data residency depend on the selected Exoscale zone and service.

Funding and ownership

Official materials state that Exoscale is backed by A1 Telekom Austria Group; no additional funding round was required for this draft.