Cloud Hosting · Switzerland (CH)
Exoscale
Swiss-engineered IaaS for Europe.
The switch
DigitalOcean→Exoscalealso replaces AWS
About
Compute, storage and Kubernetes across six EU/CH zones with Swiss data-protection guarantees and ISO 27001 certification.
Why we recommend it
- 6 EU zones
- ISO 27001
- Swiss legal jurisdiction
EU vs USA
Exoscale vs DigitalOcean
Side-by-side on jurisdiction, data residency, and the rules that decide who can actually read your data.
Criteria
🇪🇺 Exoscale
🇺🇸 DigitalOcean
Headquarters
Lausanne, Switzerland
New York, USA
Jurisdiction
Switzerland
USA
Data location
Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria
Global
GDPR-native
Yes
No
CLOUD Act / FISA exposed
No
Yes
Ad tracking
No
No
End-to-end encryption
No
No
Open source
No
No
Ownership
Akenes SA
DigitalOcean Holdings
Founded
2011
2011
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