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Key people at EXOscalr.
Based in Lausanne, Switzerland, EXOscalr provides European sovereign cloud hosting services, including virtual machines, managed Kubernetes, object storage, and database infrastructure for developers and businesses. The company operates on a pay-per-use business model and generates approximately $3.5 million in annual revenue with a workforce of 51 to 100 employees. Operating as a subsidiary of the A1 Telekom Austria Group, the cloud platform is also a member of A1 Digital International GmbH and is officially owned by Akenes SA. The infrastructure emphasizes General Data Protection Regulation compliance and data security, serving small to medium-sized enterprises across the European Union that require alternatives to United States-based providers. To support its cloud-native applications and scalable storage solutions, the firm has expanded its physical data center footprint into Austria, Germany, Bulgaria, and Croatia. EXOscalr was founded in 2011.
Key people at EXOscalr.
Exoscale is a European sovereign cloud hosting provider specializing in high-performance, GDPR-compliant infrastructure for cloud-native applications, particularly targeting EU businesses and developers.[2][5] It offers services like virtual machines (VMs), Managed Kubernetes (SKS), Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, OpenSearch, and Valkey, plus object storage with S3-compatible APIs, all emphasizing privacy, open source, simplicity, and automation.[4][5] Founded as a subsidiary of Akenes SA (established 2011) and launched in 2013, Exoscale serves application developers, SaaS companies, and industries like healthcare and finance by solving scalability, security, and data sovereignty challenges in a market dominated by U.S. hyperscalers.[1][3][8] Its growth includes expansion across Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and Bulgaria data centers, with acquisitions like by A1 Telekom Austria Group, enabling mission-critical workloads with features like anti-affinity groups, security groups, and live migrations.[3][5][6]
Exoscale emerged from IT operations veterans' frustrations with existing setups like CentOS at scale, traditional hosting, and early IaaS like AWS, aiming to create a middle-ground automation-focused public cloud for application developers.[1][2] Akenes SA was founded in 2011 in Lausanne, Switzerland, with Exoscale launching in 2013 from a lightweight platform of VMs and persistent storage, quickly evolving by adding object storage, DNS, private networks, and elastic IPs.[2][3][4] A pivotal early moment involved leveraging a secure data center in a Swiss mountain bunker, reinforcing its privacy focus amid scaling challenges.[1] Backed by investors like Swisscom Ventures and later acquired by A1 Telekom Austria Group, Exoscale accelerated post-2021 with Managed Kubernetes (SKS) and DBaaS, maintaining ease of use via portal, CLI, and API while prioritizing GDPR compliance and European data centers.[4][5][6]
Exoscale rides the wave of European digital sovereignty and cloud-native adoption, addressing data privacy concerns amid GDPR, rising U.S. hyperscaler scrutiny, and demand for non-American alternatives.[2][5][8] Timing aligns with accelerating EU regulations and hybrid/multi-cloud shifts, favoring localized, compliant providers for mission-critical workloads in AI, data science, HPC, and real-time analytics.[4][7][9] Market forces like environmental sustainability (circular economy focus) and cost transparency boost its edge, while partnerships (e.g., Equinix for interconnection, Intel) enable pan-European scalability.[3][5][7] It influences the ecosystem by empowering hundreds of European teams to migrate/scale production apps, fostering trust in sovereign clouds and reducing vendor lock-in.[1][5]
Exoscale's trajectory points to deepened managed services expansion (e.g., more DBaaS like Kafka for real-time innovation) and further data center growth, capitalizing on EU sovereignty mandates and AI/ML demands.[4][7][9] Trends like regulatory pressures, sustainable computing, and container orchestration will propel it, potentially amplifying influence via acquisitions or ecosystem integrations. As a privacy-first European mainstay, Exoscale solidifies its role in building trustworthy infrastructure for the next decade of cloud-native Europe—starting from that 2013 spark in the Swiss mountains.[1][2]
