UpCloud is a Finnish (Helsinki-founded, 2011) European cloud-infrastructure provider offering high-performance IaaS cloud servers, managed Kubernetes, managed databases, and S3-compatible object storage. It targets performance-sensitive developers and SaaS businesses with fixed, predictable pricing and zero-cost data egress on all plans. Its differentiators are a 100% MaxIOPS storage architecture and an unusually strong 99.999% uptime SLA. It is ISO 27001 certified, GDPR-compliant, and a CISPE member, with a datacenter footprint of roughly 15 sites across 12 countries on four continents. A startup-credit program supports early-stage companies.
europeanhigh-performancefree-egresslow-cost
Overview
- Founded
- 2011
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Cloud infrastructure
- Starting price
- $3/mo
- Regions
- 12
- SLA uptime
- 99.999%
- Managed Kubernetes
- Yes
- Helm support
- Yes
- Free tier
- No
- Vendor lock-in
- Low
- Open standards
- Yes
- Easy data export
- Yes
- Multi-cloud friendly
- Yes
- Org size
- Midsize
- Support tier
- Standard
- Ease of use
- 4/5
Categories & compliance
Categories
Compliance
ISO27001GDPR