Cloud Hosting · Finland (FI)
UpCloud
Finnish high-performance cloud
The switch
DigitalOcean→UpCloudalso replaces AWS EC2
About
Fast EU-based cloud infrastructure with strong SLA.
Why we recommend it
- Made in Finland
- Fast NVMe
- EU data
EU vs USA
UpCloud vs DigitalOcean
Side-by-side on jurisdiction, data residency, and the rules that decide who can actually read your data.
Criteria
🇪🇺 UpCloud
🇺🇸 DigitalOcean
Headquarters
Helsinki, Finland
New York, USA
Jurisdiction
Finland (GDPR)
USA
Data location
EU
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
UpCloud Ltd
DigitalOcean Holdings
Founded
2011
2011
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