cloudscale
Self-service cloud servers, object storage and load balancers hosted in Switzerland.
- Swiss CompanyThe operating company is headquartered and legally incorporated in Switzerland.
- Swiss OwnedThe ultimate controlling owner is Swiss (Swiss persons, companies, foundations or public bodies).
- Swiss DevelopedThe product is primarily developed by a team operating from Switzerland.
- Hosted in SwitzerlandCore customer data and workloads are hosted in Switzerland by default.
- Swiss InfrastructureHosted in Switzerland on infrastructure operated by a Swiss-owned provider (or the company itself) — not a foreign hyperscaler.
cloudscale.ch
Overview
cloudscale is an infrastructure-as-a-service platform from cloudscale.ch AG in Zurich, generally available since 2016. It provides virtual servers with shared or dedicated CPUs, GPU servers, SSD and bulk volumes, private networks, floating IPs, load balancers and S3-compatible object storage. The platform is built on OpenStack and Ceph and can be managed via a web control panel, REST API, CLI, Terraform and Ansible.
All resources run in two data centres in Switzerland, in Lupfig (Aargau) and Rümlang (Zurich), which can be combined for geo-redundant setups. cloudscale.ch AG holds ISO 27001, 27017 and 27018 certifications. Billing is per second from prepaid credit in CHF; the object storage price per GB rises from 1 January 2027.
cloudscale does not operate managed Kubernetes or managed databases itself; partners offer such services on its infrastructure through a marketplace. Swiss managed service provider Cyberlink holds 40% of the company.
Why it may be a Swiss alternative
cloudscale is operated by cloudscale.ch AG, which is headquartered in Zürich. Swiss-headquartered, Swiss-owned company; product developed (wholly or largely) in Switzerland.
According to the information we found, core customer data is hosted in Switzerland.
May replace
- Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services, Inc. · USCovers virtual servers, volumes, object storage and load balancers only; no managed databases or Kubernetes from cloudscale itself.
- DigitalOceanDigitalOcean, LLC · USNo managed Kubernetes or managed databases from cloudscale itself; partner services are offered via its marketplace.
- Amazon S3Amazon Web Services, Inc. · USVia the S3-compatible cloudscale object storage.
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 native. Swiss-headquartered, Swiss-owned company; product developed (wholly or largely) in Switzerland.
- HeadquartersIs the operating company headquartered in Switzerland?
- Zürich, Zurich (ZH), SwitzerlandVerified[5]
- Legal jurisdiction
- OwnershipIs the company ultimately Swiss-owned?
- YesInferred[3]
Swiss managed service provider Cyberlink AG acquired 40% of the shares in December 2024. The remaining shareholders are not published; in 2019 the founder and CEO stated that only Swiss private individuals had invested in the company. No foreign shareholder has been reported.
- DevelopmentIs the product developed in Switzerland?
- HostingIs customer data hosted in Switzerland?
- Yes — SwitzerlandVendor claim[3]
All cloud infrastructure is operated in two data centres in Switzerland (Lupfig AG and Rümlang ZH).
- InfrastructureIs the hosting infrastructure operated by a Swiss-owned provider?
- Yes — cloudscale.ch AG (own hardware in colocation) · SwitzerlandVendor claim[3]
Data-centre facility: Green Datacenter AG (Lupfig) and NTT Global Data Centers Switzerland AG (Rümlang)
Features & platforms
- Platforms
- Deployment
- Made for
- Interface languages
- Unknown / not verified
- Launched
- 2016
Privacy & security
- Encryption at rest
- Yes
- Single sign-on (SAML/OIDC)
- Yes
- Public API
- Yes
- Not verified
- End-to-end encryption, Encryption in transit, Multi-factor authentication, SCIM provisioning and Data export
- Certifications
Pricing
Paid plans fromCHF 1.10 · usage-basedFlex-4-1 server (1 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 10 GB SSD), CHF 1.10 per 24 hours, billed per second from prepaid credit
- 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[9]
Built on OpenStack and Ceph; the CLI, Terraform provider and Kubernetes integrations are open source, while the control panel is proprietary.
- Licence
- MIT · OSI-approved licence
- Source code
- github.com/cloudscale-ch
- GitHub
- 87 public repositories
- last commit
Statistics from GitHub, fetched 15 Oct 2026.
Company
Zurich-based infrastructure-as-a-service provider founded in 2014 that runs its cloud platform in two data centres in Switzerland.
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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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