Exoscale

Exoscale offers European cloud hosting with data centers in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, and Switzerland, providing a solid alternative for cloud-native teams. It features powerful concepts with simple interfaces, designed for ease of use by teams of any size. Key functionalities include anti-affinity groups for high availability across different data centers and security groups for managing firewall rules. Access control is managed through organizations, keypairs, and multi-factor authentication.

Exoscale emphasizes data security, GDPR compliance, and adherence to strict data privacy laws, ensuring workloads started in specific countries remain within those borders. The pricing model is transparent and predictable, with instance sizes for various workloads, from small clusters to powerful big-data nodes. It offers a simple hourly price, prorated to the second, with a competitive price-performance ratio and true pay-per-use billing. Traffic pricing is cluster-friendly, with free internal traffic and generous allowances for inbound and outbound data transfer.