PHOENIQS Cloud
Swiss OpenShift-based cloud with managed Kubernetes, GPU compute and object storage.
- Swiss CompanyThe operating company is headquartered and legally incorporated in Switzerland.
- 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.
- Self-hostableCan be installed on your own servers or on-premises.
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Overview
PHOENIQS Cloud, previously marketed as kvant by Phoenix Systems, is an infrastructure-as-a-service platform built on Red Hat OpenShift. Customers buy vCPUs, memory, storage and GPUs individually through a self-service portal and use them in OpenShift namespaces or dedicated hosted clusters. The service includes NVIDIA H100 GPU nodes, OpenShift AI, S3-compatible object storage and confidential computing with hardware-based trusted execution environments. An on-premises variant and an AI model service are offered separately.
According to the documentation, the data centre is in Basel and managed by PHOENIQS without a third-party operator, and backups are stored at Mount10 in the Swiss Alps. Earlier material described two regions with four availability zones in Basel and Zurich.
Resources are billed monthly in CHF per requested unit: CHF 5.50 per vCPU, CHF 6.00 per GB of RAM and CHF 0.03 per GB of storage, with GPU pricing on request. In 2026 Phoenix Technologies AG merged its subsidiary Phoenix Systems AG into itself and adopted the PHOENIQS brand.
Why it may be a Swiss alternative
PHOENIQS Cloud is operated by Phoenix Technologies AG, which is headquartered in Freienbach, Schwyz. 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
- Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services, Inc. · USCovers Kubernetes-based compute, GPUs and S3-compatible storage; much smaller service catalogue.
- Microsoft AzureMicrosoft Corporation · USCovers Kubernetes-based compute, GPUs and S3-compatible storage; much smaller service catalogue.
- Google CloudGoogle LLC · USCovers Kubernetes-based compute, GPUs and S3-compatible storage; much smaller service catalogue.
- Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat, Inc. · USOffered as managed OpenShift namespaces or dedicated hosted clusters on PHOENIQS infrastructure.
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?
- Freienbach, Schwyz (SZ), SwitzerlandVerified[1]
Further offices are at uptownBasel in Arlesheim and in Zurich.
- Legal jurisdiction
- OwnershipIs the company ultimately Swiss-owned?
- Unknown / not verified
The shareholder structure is not published. Co-founder Thomas Taroni, a Swiss citizen, is president of the board and executive chairman; the board also includes a German national living in Germany. QAI Ventures, linked to the uptownBasel campus, announced an investment in 2024. No acquisition by another group was found in reporting up to October 2026.
- DevelopmentIs the product developed in Switzerland?
- YesInferred[6]
Phoenix Systems held the swiss made software label, which requires at least 60% of production costs to be incurred in Switzerland. The platform is built on Red Hat OpenShift and other open-source software, and PHOENIQS states that the infrastructure is operated and supported only by employees resident in Switzerland.
- HostingIs customer data hosted in Switzerland?
- Yes — SwitzerlandVendor claim[1]
PHOENIQS states that live workloads and backups stay in Switzerland. The data centre is in Basel and managed by PHOENIQS itself; backups are kept at Mount10 in the Swiss Alps.
- InfrastructureIs the hosting infrastructure operated by a Swiss-owned provider?
- Unknown / not verified
PHOENIQS states that no third-party operator handles the infrastructure. Whether the company is ultimately Swiss-owned is not published. Data-centre facility: Basel; backups at Mount10
Features & platforms
- Platforms
- Deployment
- Made for
- Interface languages
- Unknown / not verified
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
- None listed
Pricing
- 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 16 Oct 2026. Always confirm on the vendor’s site. Pricing page ↗
Open source
- Open source
- NoInferred
The service runs on open-source components such as Red Hat OpenShift; the PHOENIQS platform and portal are not published as open source.
Company
Swiss sovereign cloud and AI provider based in Freienbach SZ, operating under the PHOENIQS brand since 2026, with its data centre in Basel.
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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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