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Exoscale

European cloud provider for compute, storage, networking, Kubernetes, databases, and AI

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Exoscale is a European cloud provider offering on-demand infrastructure for compute, storage, networking, databases, and AI workloads. It addresses the need for cloud services operated exclusively within European data centers and legal frameworks, with an emphasis on data sovereignty, GDPR alignment, and avoiding vendor lock-in through open standards and standards-based APIs.

The platform includes Compute instances, Managed Kubernetes, Object Storage with an S3-compatible API, Block Storage, and networking services such as Virtual Private Cloud, Network Load Balancer, Private Connect, DNS, and CDN. Database services cover Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache Kafka, OpenSearch, Valkey, ClickHouse, and Grafana. AI infrastructure includes GPU servers with NVIDIA cards, managed vector databases, and OpenAI-compatible inference APIs. Tooling includes a web portal, CLI, API, Terraform provider, Kubernetes integrations, SDKs, and a Marketplace of templates and managed third-party services.

Exoscale is aimed at developers, data engineers, and organizations running production workloads in Europe. It offers a free account to get started, with usage-based, per-second billing and no hidden fees. Infrastructure is available across European zones in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Croatia, and Spain.

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