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Exoscale Compute

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Spec score 7.4 #6 of 18 in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Software

Spec sheet

What it does
Compute Instances are cloud virtual machines with CPU, memory, and storage for deploying applications and workloads without managing physical servers.Read 10 Oct 2026 · exoscale.com
Intended users
Exoscale describes Compute Instances for developers, startups, enterprises, and teams running workloads such as applications, CI/CD pipelines, analytics, and GPU workloads.Read 10 Oct 2026 · exoscale.com
Integrations
Exoscale lists integrations including Kubernetes, Terraform, Packer, Vault, Pulumi, and Crossplane.Read 10 Oct 2026 · exoscale.com
Support
Free Built-In support is included for all customers; paid plans add guaranteed response times, and Enterprise includes 24/7 support with a dedicated Customer Success Manager.Read 10 Oct 2026 · exoscale.com
Headquarters
Lausanne, SwitzerlandRead 28 Sep 2026 · exoscale.com
Founded
2011Read 28 Sep 2026 · exoscale.com
Instance families
The product page lists Standard, CPU Optimized, Memory Optimized, Storage Optimized, and GPU instance families.Read 10 Oct 2026 · exoscale.com
Instance range
Predefined configurations range from 1 core and 512 MB RAM to 248 cores and 960 GB on specific GPU instances.Read 10 Oct 2026 · exoscale.com
Network traffic
The Compute page states that inbound and internode traffic between virtual machines is free, as is traffic across zones.Read 10 Oct 2026 · exoscale.com
Operating systems
Supported systems include Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, OpenSUSE, SLES, Windows Server, and OpenBSD.Read 10 Oct 2026 · exoscale.com
Provisioning and access
Instances can be started through the user interface, CLI, or API, and Exoscale says setup takes a few seconds.Read 10 Oct 2026 · exoscale.com
Resilience features
The product supports anti-affinity groups to spread instances across physical hosts, snapshots, and live migration during maintenance.Read 10 Oct 2026 · exoscale.com
Scaling and images
Users can resize instances, deploy instance pools, and upload custom preconfigured images.Read 10 Oct 2026 · exoscale.com
Security and compliance
The maker describes its compute instances as running in ISO-certified European data centers and says users can keep data under sovereign control with GDPR compliance.Read 10 Oct 2026 · exoscale.com
Storage and encryption
Instances use local SSDs, often NVMe, and new instances receive an encrypted root volume with AES-256-XTS encryption at the hypervisor layer by default.Read 10 Oct 2026 · exoscale.com

Plans and prices

Compute Instances Price not published Pay-as-you-go; instances billed by the second. Pricing depends on instance type and size; local SSD and block storage are billed separately. Standard, CPU Optimized, Memory Optimized, Storage Optimized, and GPU instance families Read 10 Oct 2026 · exoscale.com

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