UpCloud

High-performance Finnish cloud

Helsinki, Finland · Founded 2011 · Paid
A European alternative to AWS Google Cloud Microsoft Azure Vercel Netlify DigitalOcean Linode (Akamai) Oracle Cloud Vultr IBM Cloud Render Fly.io Heroku Railway

About UpCloud

UpCloud is a Finnish cloud provider headquartered in Helsinki, operating 15 data centres across four continents, including European facilities in Helsinki, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, London, Warsaw and Madrid. Its cloud platform offers VPS, GPU servers, managed databases, Kubernetes and S3-compatible object storage on top of MaxIOPS, a proprietary distributed storage stack delivering up to 100,000 IOPS per server. Plans start at USD 3.50/month with the same fixed pricing in every region, a 99.999% SLA and zero-cost egress under a Fair Transfer policy. EU data centres operate under GDPR.

Quick facts

Pricing model Paid
Free trial Yes
Open source
Self-hostable No
Public API No
Target audience B2B
Company size fit All
DPA available Yes
Data stored in EU Yes
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