APPUiO
Managed Red Hat OpenShift container platform running in Swiss cloud zones.
- Swiss CompanyThe operating company is headquartered and legally incorporated in Switzerland.
- Hosted in SwitzerlandCore customer data and workloads are hosted in Switzerland by default.
appuio.ch
Overview
APPUiO is a container platform based on Red Hat OpenShift, operated by VSHN AG in
Zurich. Customers deploy containerised applications into projects on a shared
OpenShift cluster via the web console, the oc command-line tool or the
Kubernetes API. Backups with K8up, databases, support plans and dedicated
managed OpenShift clusters are offered as additional services.
APPUiO Cloud runs in zones on cloudscale and Exoscale infrastructure, which VSHN states are located in Switzerland. VSHN does not operate its own data centres: cloudscale is Swiss-owned, while Exoscale belongs to the Austrian A1 Group. Billing is per minute based on reserved or used memory and storage in CHF; the price list excludes VAT.
VSHN states that it holds ISO 27001 certification and an ISAE 3402 Type 2 report. The platform was launched in 2016 together with Puzzle ITC, from which VSHN acquired it in 2024.
Why it may be a Swiss alternative
APPUiO is operated by VSHN AG, which is headquartered in Zürich. Swiss-headquartered company. Ownership is mixed or not fully verified, or development happens mainly abroad.
According to the information we found, core customer data is hosted in Switzerland.
May replace
- Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat, Inc. · USAPPUiO is itself built on Red Hat OpenShift; it replaces Red Hat's hosted OpenShift services, not the software.
- HerokuSalesforce, Inc. · USApplications are deployed as OpenShift/Kubernetes workloads rather than Heroku dynos.
- Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services, Inc. · USOnly as an alternative to managed Kubernetes and container hosting (EKS, ECS).
- Google CloudGoogle LLC · USOnly as an alternative to managed Kubernetes and container hosting (GKE, Cloud Run).
- Microsoft AzureMicrosoft Corporation · USOnly as an alternative to managed Kubernetes and container hosting (AKS, Azure Red Hat OpenShift).
Foreign products with overlapping functionality. An alternative is not necessarily a one-to-one replacement.
Swiss footprint
Five independent questions. A Swiss company is not automatically Swiss-hosted — and vice versa. How the footprint is assessed
Swiss company. Swiss-headquartered company. Ownership is mixed or not fully verified, or development happens mainly abroad.
- HeadquartersIs the operating company headquartered in Switzerland?
- Zürich, Zurich (ZH), SwitzerlandVerified[3]
- Legal jurisdiction
- OwnershipIs the company ultimately Swiss-owned?
- Unknown / not verified
The shareholders are not published. Co-founders Aarno Aukia and Patrick Mathers moved to the board of directors in 2021. No acquisition or foreign shareholder has been reported. VSHN also has an office in Vancouver, Canada.
- DevelopmentIs the product developed in Switzerland?
- PartlyInferred[5]
VSHN operates the platform from Zurich and develops its portal, billing and tooling, but the core platform is Red Hat OpenShift, developed by US company Red Hat. APPUiO was created in 2016 by VSHN together with Puzzle ITC; VSHN took it over fully in 2024.
- HostingIs customer data hosted in Switzerland?
- Yes — SwitzerlandVendor claim[2]
APPUiO Cloud is offered in zones on cloudscale and Exoscale infrastructure; VSHN states that data is stored in ISO 27001-certified data centres in Switzerland.
- InfrastructureIs the hosting infrastructure operated by a Swiss-owned provider?
- Partly — cloudscale.ch AG and Exoscale (Akenes SA)Vendor claim[3]
APPUiO runs on third-party IaaS. cloudscale is a Swiss-owned provider; Exoscale is operated by Lausanne-based Akenes SA, which belongs to Austria's A1 Telekom Austria Group.
Features & platforms
- Platforms
- Deployment
- Made for
- Interface languages
- Unknown / not verified
- Launched
- 2016
Privacy & security
- Public API
- Yes
- Not verified
- End-to-end encryption, Encryption at rest, Encryption in transit, Multi-factor authentication, Single sign-on (SAML/OIDC), SCIM provisioning and Data export
- Certifications
Pricing
Paid plans fromCHF 0.001135 · usage-basedPer GiB of RAM per minute on cloudscale Flex or Exoscale Standard nodes (about CHF 49 per GiB per 30 days), excl. VAT; storage extra
- Pricing model
- Usage-based
- Free plan
- Unknown / not verified
- Free trial
- Unknown / not verified
- Enterprise plan
- Unknown / not verified
- Billing in CHF
- Yes
Prices checked 15 Oct 2026. Always confirm on the vendor’s site. Pricing page ↗
Open source
- Open source
- PartlyVendor claim[7]
The APPUiO Cloud portal and control API and VSHN's K8up backup operator are open source; Red Hat OpenShift itself is a commercial subscription product.
- Licence
- Apache-2.0 · OSI-approved licence
- Source code
- github.com/appuio
- GitHub
- 215 public repositories
- last commit
Statistics from GitHub, fetched 15 Oct 2026.
Company
Zurich-based DevOps and managed services company founded in 2014 that operates the APPUiO container platform and managed Kubernetes services.
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Sources & verification
Every claim on this page is marked as verified, vendor claim or inferred. Unknown means we could not confirm it — not that the answer is “no”.
- Verified Confirmed by an independent or official source such as the commercial register.
- Vendor claim Stated by the vendor in its own documentation, website or legal terms.
- Inferred Derived by the editors from indirect evidence — see the note.
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