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SOS: Native Bucket Lifecycle Rules

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Logs, exports and old object versions pile up long after anyone needs them, and you pay for every byte. Bucket lifecycle rules are now available on Simple Object Storage: describe once what to delete and when, and SOS applies it every day.

What you can do with it

Expire objects a set number of days after they are written, or on a fixed date, across a bucket or under a prefix such as logs/
Prune old versions on versioned buckets, a set number of days after they are replaced, and remove leftover delete markers
Abort incomplete multipart uploads, whose parts never show up in a normal listing

Rules cover expiration only: transitions to another storage class are not supported yet.

Rules also apply to objects already in the bucket: anything past the limit is deleted at the next nightly evaluation.

Be careful when applying bucket lifecycle rules to a bucket used for backups. Backup tools such as Veeam manage their own retention, and bucket lifecycle rules might interfere with how these tools work.

Why it matters

Storage stops growing by default. Everything a rule removes is storage you no longer pay for, every month.
Retention becomes a policy, not a chore. “Delete after 90 days” lives in the bucket configuration, which also helps with GDPR data minimization.
Nothing to operate. SOS runs the rules itself: no cron job, no clean-up script to maintain.

Get started with the bucket lifecycle documentation.

Network Load Balancer now supports IPv6

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Network Load Balancers now support IPv6. You can create an IPv6 Network Load Balancer in the Exoscale Portal or with the Exoscale CLI.

An IPv6 Network Load Balancer gets a public IPv6 address and distributes TCP and UDP traffic across the instances in your Instance Pools, just like an IPv4 Network Load Balancer.

Why use it

Lower cost: Elastic IPv6 addresses are free, so you only pay the load balancer fee. An IPv6 Network Load Balancer costs EUR/CHF/USD 0.02083 per hour, about 40% less than the IPv4 version. Check the pricing page for details.
Reach IPv6 users directly: Serve users on IPv6-only and IPv6-first networks, natively and without translation layers.
Go fully IPv6: Your instances already get a free public IPv6 address. Now the load balancer in front of them can be IPv6 too.
Nothing to give up: Same health checks, load balancing strategies and 200 service limit as an IPv4 Network Load Balancer.

Before you start

The target Instance Pool must have IPv6 enabled (dual-stack). Instance Pools are IPv4 only by default, so set public IP assignment to dual-stack. Instances without an IPv6 address won’t receive traffic.

Learn more about Network Load Balancers →

Managed ClickHouse® is now generally available

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Managed ClickHouse® leaves early access and is now generally available in Exoscale European zones, with the full DBaaS SLA and self-service plans from Startup to Premium.

What changes

Create and manage services from the Exoscale Portal, alongside the rest of our managed databases, as well as from the API
Script it from the command line with the exo dbaas commands of the Exoscale CLI from v1.100.0, including ClickHouse users
Manage it as code with the Exoscale Terraform provider from v0.72.0, including ClickHouse users through the exoscale_dbaas_clickhouse_user resource
Self-service from Startup to Premium, with no per-organization activation step; the largest configurations remain available on request
Backed by the DBaaS SLA, 99.95% on Startup and 99.99% on Business and Premium

What has not changed

Everything the service already did: sub-second queries on billions of rows, vector search with the HNSW index, tiered storage to Exoscale Object Storage, federated queries against Managed PostgreSQL, and 100% standard, open-source ClickHouse® with no proprietary fork, billed per second.

Get started with the quick-start guide, learn more on the product page, or compare plans and per-second rates on the pricing page. New to Exoscale? Register and start with free credit.

ClickHouse® is a registered trademark of ClickHouse, Inc. Exoscale is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by ClickHouse, Inc.

New Works with Exoscale Partner: Airlock Microgateway

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Airlock Microgateway by Ergon Informatik AG is now certified as Works with Exoscale, bringing Kubernetes-native application and API protection to workloads running on Exoscale SKS.

Built on open standards, Airlock Microgateway runs directly inside the Kubernetes cluster and combines the Kubernetes Gateway API with Web Application and API Protection (WAAP), identity-aware access control, reporting and monitoring. Routing rules and security policies are managed as code, allowing teams to integrate security directly into existing GitOps and DevSecOps workflows.

Security that fits into Kubernetes

Airlock Microgateway gives platform and application teams a consistent way to manage routing and security without adding a separate security layer outside the cluster:

Kubernetes-native protection: Protect web applications and APIs directly at the cluster entry point.
Security as code: Define routing and security policies declaratively and manage them through existing GitOps workflows.
Identity-aware access: Control access using standards including OIDC, JWT, OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange and mTLS.
Application and API protection: Protect workloads against common web attacks and enforce API specifications with OpenAPI and GraphQL schema validation.
Built on open standards: Use a conformant implementation of the Kubernetes Gateway API together with established technologies including Istio and Cilium.
A path beyond Ingress NGINX: Migrate existing Ingress NGINX resources to Gateway API using the Kubernetes ingress2gateway tool, including its Airlock Microgateway emitter.

Airlock Microgateway can be deployed directly on Exoscale SKS. Its Community Edition provides Kubernetes Gateway API capabilities and reverse proxy capabilities without a license or throughput limit, while advanced security capabilities are available with the Premium Edition.

Protect your Kubernetes workloads →

New on the Marketplace: DigLM, Swiss AI for companies

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000

DigLM is now available on the Exoscale Marketplace. It gives Swiss organisations an AI workspace for drafting, summarising, translating and analysing documents, with customer data hosted in Switzerland.

What you can do with it

Draft, summarise and analyse documents without sending user content to an external AI provider
Translate business content between French, German, English and Italian
Use 13 built-in skills for Swiss law, HR, finance, strategy, sales, marketing, IT and translation
Share conversations and company context across a team, with role-based administration
Upload documents directly into a conversation for contextual analysis
Integrate DigLM into existing workflows through an OpenAI-compatible API

Why it matters

For Swiss SMEs and regulated professions, AI adoption often creates a trade-off between productivity and control over sensitive data. DigLM brings both together with an accessible AI interface that can be deployed in minutes, using open-source models running on DigLM servers hosted on Exoscale infrastructure in Geneva and Zurich.

Customer data is isolated per client, encrypted in transit and at rest, and is not used to train models. The API is stateless, so prompts and responses are not stored.

Explore DigLM on the Exoscale Marketplace

New on the Marketplace: SOKKAN, an AI-development cockpit built on Exoscale

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000

SOKKAN by Geneva-based Ninabot Sàrl is now available on the Exoscale Marketplace.

SOKKAN is an open-source cockpit for teams developing with AI agents. It brings parallel Claude Code sessions, persistent project memory, a dynamic Kanban and human-in-the-loop approvals into one environment, helping teams work with AI agents while keeping developers in control.

Available as both an open-source self-hosted setup and a fully managed cloud service, SOKKAN Cloud runs on Exoscale infrastructure in Geneva, with a dedicated environment for each customer.

What SOKKAN brings to development teams

SOKKAN is designed around a simple principle: AI agents work better when they understand what came before and humans remain responsible for what happens next.

Persistent project context: Project memory carries knowledge across tasks and sessions, so new agent sessions can start with the context they need.
Parallel AI workflows: Run multiple Claude Code sessions at the same time and manage work from a dynamic Kanban.
Human control: Sensitive actions can require explicit approval before an agent proceeds.
Dedicated environments: Each SOKKAN Cloud customer gets a dedicated VM and private network on Exoscale.
Automated infrastructure: Terraform handles provisioning and the infrastructure lifecycle, with optional Managed PostgreSQL. Daily snapshots of each environment are stored in Exoscale Object Storage in Geneva, so customer data stays in Switzerland.
Open source and self-hostable: Run SOKKAN on your own infrastructure or choose the fully managed Swiss-hosted service.

With Exoscale as its infrastructure foundation, SOKKAN Cloud can provision complete customer environments in minutes while keeping each tenant isolated and the underlying infrastructure simple to operate.

Explore SOKKAN on the Exoscale Marketplace

SKS: Kubernetes 1.37 Now Available

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:45:00 +0000

Kubernetes 1.37 is now available on Exoscale Scalable Kubernetes Service (SKS) for new and existing clusters.

Named Garhwal, Kubernetes 1.37 includes 67 enhancements, with 16 features graduating to Stable. The release strengthens established Kubernetes APIs and improves the foundations for secure workloads and reliable cluster upgrades.

Key benefits

A stable resource Metrics API: The metrics.k8s.io/v1 API now carries Kubernetes’ Stable API guarantees. This gives tooling that uses pod and node CPU and memory metrics a more durable integration target. Existing v1beta1 clients remain supported during the transition, and using the new API requires a compatible metrics provider.
Stronger foundations for workload identity: Pod Certificates and Cluster Trust Bundles are now Stable, providing standard Kubernetes building blocks for issuing X.509 certificates and distributing trust material to workloads. This can simplify TLS and mutual TLS integrations when used with a compatible certificate signer.
Safer mixed-version operation: Node Declared Features are now Stable. Control-plane components can identify the features available on each node, improving behavior when clusters temporarily contain different node versions during upgrades.
Continued security and reliability improvements: Upgrading keeps clusters on an actively supported Kubernetes release and provides the latest upstream fixes and improvements included in Kubernetes 1.37.

Upgrade notes

Existing SKS clusters are not upgraded automatically.
Review the Kubernetes 1.37 release announcement and test the upgrade in a non-production environment before upgrading production clusters.
Upgrade the control plane and node pools using the Exoscale Portal, CLI, or API. Kubernetes minor versions must be upgraded sequentially.

Learn how to upgrade and manage the Kubernetes version of an SKS cluster

New partner: CC-Interactive joins Works with Exoscale

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000

CC-Interactive is joining the Works with Exoscale partner ecosystem with SmartBoard, its AI-powered business intelligence platform built on a Data Lakehouse.

What you can do with it

Consolidate data from your finance, operational and business systems into one validated foundation, instead of exporting a spreadsheet from each of them
Replace recurring manual reporting with reports generated in one click, with a full audit trail for submission to authorities or compliance platforms
Ask why a number moved and get the root cause and a written summary back, rather than digging through dashboards yourself
Forecast each KPI from historical patterns and external variables, and test what-if scenarios before committing to a decision
Give stakeholders secure role-based access to the current version of a dashboard, so reporting stops travelling by email attachment
Connect the sources yourself from the admin panel, through REST APIs, webhooks or direct PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL connections, with incremental loading configured per data point and no custom code

Why it matters

ESG, finance and compliance reporting keeps growing while the teams producing it do not, and most of that effort goes into collecting and reconciling data rather than interpreting it. SmartBoard moves that work to a single structured foundation, which shortens the path from raw data to a decision and makes each figure traceable back to its source.

SmartBoard runs on Exoscale infrastructure in European data centers, which matters when the data being reported on is financial, personal or regulated.

Explore the CC-Interactive partner page

New partner: Lombiq joins Works with Exoscale

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Lombiq is joining the Works with Exoscale partner ecosystem. Lombiq specializes in Orchard Core, the open-source content management framework for .NET, and takes part in developing Orchard Core itself.

What you can do with them

Have an enterprise content platform, customer portal or e-commerce site built on Orchard Core, with custom modules and themes instead of off-the-shelf compromises
Hand over an existing Orchard Core project for long-term maintenance, including applications that have to keep running for a decade or more
Get immediate help when a production Orchard Core instance breaks, rather than waiting for a generalist agency to ramp up
Ship web applications that meet WCAG 2.2 Level AA, verified by automated accessibility tests with their UI Testing Toolbox
Train your own developers and editors on Orchard Core so your team can take the project forward itself
Start on DotNest, their Orchard Core SaaS, when you would rather not operate the platform yourself

Why it matters

Orchard Core is a capable open-source CMS, but the pool of teams with genuine depth in it is small, and content platforms tend to outlive the agency that built them. Lombiq covers the whole life of a project, from the first module to troubleshooting a decade later, and their open-source contributions go back into the framework itself.

Their solutions are designed to run on Exoscale infrastructure, in European data centers, alongside Exoscale compute, networking, managed databases and object storage.

Explore the Lombiq partner page

Managed ClickHouse®: Real-Time Analytics, Fully Managed in Europe

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Real-time analytics shouldn't mean running your own database cluster. Managed ClickHouse® brings the fastest open-source column-oriented (OLAP) database to Exoscale as a fully managed service: run sub-second SQL queries on billions of rows while provisioning, scaling, backups, monitoring and upgrades are handled for you, on GDPR-compliant European infrastructure.

What you get

Sub-second queries on billions of rows, a vectorized, columnar engine built for dashboards, observability and user-facing analytics
Vector search built in, approximate nearest-neighbor search with the HNSW index, generally available as a ClickHouse 25.8 feature, for RAG pipelines, recommendations and semantic search
Tiered storage, recent data stays on fast local disk while historical data moves to S3-compatible Exoscale Object Storage in the same European zone, keeping long-term retention affordable
Federated queries, read from Managed PostgreSQL and query S3-compatible Object Storage directly in SQL, and build dashboards with Managed Grafana
Fully managed and highly available, automated operations with replication, failover and a 99.99% uptime SLA on Business and Premium plans
European and open source, 100% standard ClickHouse® running the 25.8 LTS release, no proprietary fork, in the country of your chosen zone, billed per second

Managed ClickHouse® is in early access in Exoscale European zones. Startup and Business plans are self-service; larger and Premium plans are enabled per organization on request. Create your service via the Exoscale CLI or API by following the quick-start guide; Portal integration arrives with general availability. New to Exoscale? Register and start with free credit.

How it fits your stack

Spin up a cluster in minutes and put your data to work. Learn more on the Managed ClickHouse® product page, read the documentation, or compare plans and per-second rates on the pricing page.

ClickHouse® is a registered trademark of ClickHouse, Inc. Exoscale is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by ClickHouse, Inc.

New on the Marketplace: BunkerWeb Community

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000

BunkerWeb Community is now available on the Exoscale Marketplace. It is an open-source, cloud-native Web Application Firewall (WAF) and reverse proxy from Bunkerity that you put in front of your websites, applications and APIs.

What you can do with it

Add a security layer in front of an existing application without touching its code, by routing traffic through BunkerWeb as a reverse proxy
Block the common attack classes of the OWASP Top 10 before they reach your application
Slow down credential stuffing, scraping and brute-force attempts with rate limiting, bot protection, IP filtering and GeoIP filtering
Serve everything over HTTPS with automated certificate issuance and renewal instead of managing TLS by hand
Protect Linux, Docker, Swarm and Kubernetes workloads with the same tool, configured from a web interface or driven by API
Extend it with plugins and wire it into your existing deployment and automation pipelines

Why it matters

Internet-facing applications need a filtering layer, and the usual choice is between a managed service that routes your traffic through a third party and a WAF you assemble yourself. BunkerWeb Community is a ready-to-run alternative that stays inside your own Exoscale environment, in the zone you choose, with no traffic leaving to an external provider and no per-request pricing.

It is licensed under the AGPLv3, so only the instance it runs on is billed. If you later need tailored SLAs, BunkerWeb PRO is available from Bunkerity via subscription.

To get started, point a DNS A record to the IP address of your instance, then open the setup wizard at your fully qualified domain name.

Explore BunkerWeb Community on the Exoscale Marketplace

New on the Marketplace: Anapaya EDGE for secure SCION connectivity

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Anapaya EDGE is now available on the Exoscale Marketplace, bringing secure and resilient SCION connectivity directly to workloads running on Exoscale.

Anapaya EDGE is a virtual network appliance that connects existing networks and services to the SCION Internet. Standard IP traffic is carried over SCION without requiring changes to applications or end-user devices, making it possible to introduce SCION into existing infrastructure without redesigning the application environment.

More control over critical network paths

For organizations where network availability, security, and control matter, Anapaya EDGE adds capabilities that go beyond traditional Internet connectivity:

Resilient connectivity: Multipath routing provides sub-second failover to alternative network paths in case of disruption.
End-to-end path control: Traffic paths can be selected based on criteria such as latency, provider preference, cost, or geopolitical boundaries.
Controlled access: Critical services can be restricted to trusted groups of peers, reducing their exposure to the public Internet.
EDGE-to-EDGE encryption: Traffic between locations can be encrypted and authenticated without introducing a traditional VPN setup.
Integration with existing environments: Existing applications and end-user devices can continue using standard IP connectivity.

Anapaya EDGE is available across all Exoscale zones as a Bring Your Own License (BYOL) Marketplace appliance. A 30-day try-and-buy period is available before a license is required.

Note

SCION connectivity through a SCION-enabled network service provider is required.

Explore Anapaya EDGE on the Exoscale Marketplace

SKS: GPU MIG partitioning support

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Exoscale SKS now supports GPU MIG partitioning for MIG-capable GPU nodepools.

With Multi-Instance GPU (MIG), customers can split a supported physical GPU into multiple isolated GPU instances, each with dedicated compute and memory resources. This makes it easier to run several smaller GPU workloads on the same SKS node instead of assigning a full GPU to each workload.

Availability and setup

MIG partitioning is available for Exoscale A30, RTX Pro 6000 and B300 GPUs.
Standard SKS nodepools can be configured with MIG profiles through the Exoscale Portal, CLI, or Terraform provider.
Karpenter-managed GPU nodepools can use MIG through the ExoscaleNodeClass configuration.

Why use MIG?

Run multiple smaller GPU workloads on one physical GPU.
Improve GPU utilization and reduce underused capacity.
Keep workloads isolated at the GPU partition level.
Better accommodate AI inference, development and testing, and smaller batch workloads.

Note: Existing nodes must be cycled before a changed MIG profile takes effect. Billing is based on the selected GPU node instance type, not on individual MIG partitions.

For setup instructions, see:

Configure GPU MIG partitioning on SKS

Archival Storage: Cold Data at 77% Below Standard Pricing

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Cold data shouldn't cost the same as hot data. Archival Storage stores cold data on Simple Object Storage (SOS) at €0.0042 per GB per month, 77% below Standard pricing, with free retrieval, on the same S3-compatible infrastructure you already use. It is built for genuine archival workloads: cold archives, long-term backups, and retention data you rarely access.

How it works

Request activation through the activation form, one request per bucket, reviewed case by case
Once approved, your usage is billed at the Standard rate, then the difference down to the Archival rate is credited as a discount in the following billing period
Same buckets, same API, same European zone, nothing changes for your applications

Sizing: each bucket is billed for at least 10 TB. A bucket on Archival Storage is billed for a minimum of 10 TB per month, metered as 9,313 GiB since Object Storage bills in GiB, even if it holds less. That is €42 per month, against €184 for the same 10 TB on Standard. Archival becomes cheaper than Standard from roughly 2.3 TB in a bucket, so it fits large, genuinely cold datasets rather than small ones. Estimate yours in the storage calculator.

Key conditions

At least 10 TB billed per bucket, whatever the bucket actually holds
No object lock or retention on enrolled buckets: both arrive with the Cold Storage Class
When the Warm and Cold Storage Classes launch in early 2027, a 30-day window is open to move each bucket to the Class of your choice. Cold Storage keeps the same €0.0042 per GB per month, without the 10 TB minimum. Buckets not migrated within the window return to Standard pricing

Timeline Overview

If you keep large, rarely-accessed datasets on Standard storage, Archival pricing can substantially lower their cost. See the full details on the Storage Classes page, request activation for your buckets, or estimate your savings with the storage calculator.

Exoscale Key Management Service (KMS) is now available

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Exoscale Key Management Service (KMS) is now available, bringing centralized management to encryption keys across cloud workloads, applications, and integrations.

This fully managed service enables organizations to create keys, control their lifecycle, replicate them across zones, and perform cryptographic operations.

What’s new

Create and manage cryptographic keys and use them for your cryptographic workloads.
Control key lifecycle, including **rotation schedules, deletion schedules and key status.
Replicate keys across Exoscale zones for multi-zone deployments.
Benefit from predictable per-key pricing, with all operations included.

What this means in practice

Exoscale KMS gives you greater control over how encryption keys are secured and utilized across sensitive workloads. It helps meet compliance requirements, satisfy internal security policies, and protect regulated workloads through centralized lifecycle management. This also introduces expanded options and flexibility for choosing and managing the exact keys used for Encryption-at-Rest across your Exoscale environment.

Explore Exoscale KMS

New on the Marketplace: Anantis TrapEye

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Anantis TrapEye is now available on the Exoscale Marketplace. It adds deception-based threat detection to environments running on Exoscale.

Trapeye works differently from traditional security tools. Instead of hunting for threats hidden in billions of events, it deploys controlled decoys inside your infrastructure. Any interaction with these decoys is malicious by design, resulting in high-fidelity alerts with near-zero false positives.

What does this mean in practice?

Detect attackers at their first interaction and reduce detection time (Mean Time to Detect, MTTD) significantly
High-confidence alerts with almost no false positives
Visibility into lateral movement and attacker behavior
Works across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments

Why this matters?

Modern attackers don’t cause immediate visible damage and often remain undetected for months. By the time they are discovered, it’s often too late.

TrapEye shifts the power balance back to the defender by turning your infrastructure into a hostile environment for intruders, exposing them instantly as they move through your network.

Explore deployment details and launch Anantis Trapeye directly from the Marketplace

Manage Exoscale infrastructure with Crossplane

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Exoscale now offers two official Crossplane providers, so platform teams can manage Exoscale infrastructure declaratively from Kubernetes. Two official Crossplane providers are now available, both built with Upjet:

provider-exoscale: compute instances, SKS clusters, managed databases (DBaaS), IAM, and networking.
provider-exoscale-sos: S3-compatible SOS object storage, covering buckets, versioning, ACLs, CORS, and cross-zone replication.

Crossplane runs as a controller and reconciles continuously: it detects configuration drift and brings resources back to their declared state, where a Terraform plan only checks when a run is triggered.

Get started with Crossplane

AI: Dedicated Inference is Now Generally Available

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Dedicated Inference is now generally available.

Deploy AI models on dedicated NVIDIA GPUs through managed inference endpoints hosted in European data centers, without managing Kubernetes clusters, inference frameworks, or supporting infrastructure.

With this release:

Dedicated Inference is covered by a 99.95% SLA.
Documentation has been expanded with deployment scaling guidance, updated CLI references, service boundaries, and model compatibility requirements.
Support and operational processes are now part of the standard Exoscale service lifecycle.

Dedicated Inference is designed for production AI workloads, including LLMs, embeddings, RAG applications, AI agents, and custom inference APIs running on dedicated GPU resources.

Get started with Dedicated Inference

New on the Marketplace: Zephior AI and its AI Agent Ziva

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:30:00 +0000

We’re happy to welcome Zephior to the Exoscale Marketplace.

Zephior helps proposal, procurement, legal, compliance, and sales teams handle RFPs, security questionnaires, public tenders, and complex procurement workflows in one workspace.

Teams can monitor public procurement portals such as SIMAP and EU Tender, score opportunities against their company profile, review strengths and gaps, and convert a qualified opportunity into a response project.

The platform combines:

Tender discovery and fit scoring across selected public procurement portals
AI-assisted drafting for RFPs, questionnaires, and procurement documents
Cited responses generated from approved company knowledge
Traceable review, approval, and version history

For organizations with stricter sovereignty or compliance requirements, Zephior offers a Switzerland-based deployment option on Exoscale infrastructure.

Explore Zephior on the Exoscale Marketplace

Block Storage is now available in Munich

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Exoscale Block Storage is now available in our Munich zone (DE-MUC-1).

You can attach durable, high-performance block volumes to your Compute instances in Munich, enabling applications that require persistent data storage, production-grade databases, and durable volumes for containerized environments.

With this release, Block Storage is now available in all Exoscale zones. This also completes our Scalable Kubernetes Service (SKS) setup across all data centers, with integrated persistent storage support in every location.

As in other zones, Block Storage volumes in DE-MUC-1 can be created, attached, detached, and managed via the Exoscale Portal, API, CLI, and Infrastructure as Code tooling.

For more information, refer to our Block Storage documentation.

SKS: Karpenter autoscaling integration is now Generally Available

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

We’re happy to announce that the Karpenter autoscaling integration for Exoscale Scalable Kubernetes Service (SKS) is now Generally Available.

With this release, Exoscale becomes the first European cloud provider to offer a fully integrated Karpenter experience for managed Kubernetes, enabling modern, workload-aware autoscaling for production environments.

Check it out: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/karpenter?tab=readme-ov-file#karpenter-implementations

Why move beyond traditional autoscaling?

Karpenter doesn’t just scale, it optimizes, provisioning the exact compute resources needed in real time.

Simplified autoscaling: No manual node pool configuration.
Continuous auto-healing: Automatic replacement of unhealthy nodes.
Cost efficiency: Reduced overprovisioning and lower cloud costs.

This provides a powerful, sovereign foundation for elastic workloads like AI pipelines, CI/CD, and high-traffic applications, all while keeping your data strictly within European infrastructure.

Ready to streamline your Kubernetes operations?

Check out our documentation to get started with Karpenter on SKS today

Compute: Windows VSS Support for Application Consistent Snapshot

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:31:09 +0000

Exoscale Snapshot now support application consistent backups for Windows instances using Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).

When application consistent snapshots are enabled, Windows safely prepares the system before the snapshot is created. This means the data is properly written to disk, ensuring clean, reliable backups.

Instead of basic crash-consistent snapshots, you now get application consistent backups that are ready to restore for Microsoft workloads like SQL Server, Exchange, and file services.

Why this matters

Reliable restores for critical Windows applications.
Higher data integrity with reduced risk of corruption.
Production-ready backups for business-critical systems.
Improved security and resilience for compliance.

Application consistent snapshots for Windows instances are available via the Exoscale CLI, API, and Portal.

For configuration details and technical requirements, check the documentation

DBaaS: Managed Thanos Is Now Available (all zones)

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:30:18 +0000

Long-term Prometheus metrics storage and global querying.

Managed Thanos enhances Prometheus by keeping metrics available for longer periods, providing a unified query view across environments, and ensuring high availability. It is intended for teams that rely on monitoring to understand system performance, detect issues, and analyze trends over time.

Exoscale manages the operational side of the service. Deployment, scaling, updates, and backups are automated. Teams can concentrate on interpreting their monitoring data rather than maintaining the underlying platform.

What this enables

Keep monitoring history longer
View everything in one place
Work with familiar tools
Increase service resilience
Maintain consistent performance
Reduce maintenance effort

Getting started

Learn more about Managed Thanos

GPU: NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 now available + A40 (GPU3) price reduction

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:33:06 +0000

We’re expanding our GPU portfolio with the launch of NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 instances and reducing A40 (GPU3) prices by 30% to give you more choice and better value.

What’s new?

NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 GPUs

RTX Pro 6000 instances are now available in Zagreb, Frankfurt, and Zurich. They are designed for demanding AI, inference, and high-end graphics workloads that require more memory and compute. Secure your access now during the initial availability phase before capacity runs out.

A40 (GPU3) price reduction

The price of A40 (GPU3) will be reduced by 30%, effective February 1, 2026. Existing instances continue to run unchanged and automatically benefit from the new pricing.

You now have more flexibility when choosing GPUs on Exoscale - lower prices for proven A40 workloads, and a new high-performance option with RTX Pro 6000 for more demanding use cases.

Learn more about all available GPU options on Exoscale

SKS: Kubernetes 1.35 Now Available

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 12:00:15 +0000

We’re happy to announce that Kubernetes 1.35 is now available on Exoscale SKS.

Just a few days after the upstream release, the Timbernetes (The World Tree Release) was rolled out on Exoscale on December 22, 2025.

Kubernetes 1.35 brings improvements to resource management and node requirements and continues the cleanup of legacy components, helping keep Kubernetes clusters efficient and future-ready.

Key benefits

Improved workload availability: With Kubernetes 1.35, workloads can be vertically scaled without restarts, improving availability and resource efficiency.
Simpler model distribution for AI workloads: OCI images can now be mounted as read-only volumes, making it easier to ship and run models without additional storage layers.

Upgrade notes

Existing SKS clusters are not upgraded automatically.
We recommend testing upgrades in a non-production environment before upgrading production clusters.
You can upgrade your clusters using the Exoscale Portal, CLI, or API.

SKS upgrade and lifecycle management

SKS: Karpenter Autoscaling Integration (Public Preview)

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:03:02 +0000

We’re bringing next-generation Kubernetes autoscaling to Exoscale, now in Public Preview.

Our new Karpenter integration brings advanced, real-time autoscaling to Exoscale Kubernetes clusters. It automatically provisions and removes compute or GPU nodes as demand changes, improving efficiency and reducing idle costs.

Source: Karpenter

The integration extends Exoscale’s existing autoscaling to full node lifecycle management, delivering hyperscaler-level scalability within a sovereign European cloud.

Karpenter automatically selects the optimal instance type for each workload, supports GPU-based AI and ML use cases, and scales clusters down to zero when idle, so users pay only for the resources they use.

Based on the open source Karpenter project, this add-on is included in SKS PRO Cluster at no additional cost.

Note: Karpenter is currently in Public Preview. Some features may change before General Availability, and you may encounter bugs. If you experience any issues, please open a support ticket in the Exoscale Portal.

For more details, check out our blog: https://www.exoscale.com/blog/sks-karpenter/

Learn how to enable Karpenter

New on the Marketplace: Panop Unified Security Posture Management

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Swiss security platform providing complete visibility into your infrastructure's security from an attacker's perspective. Runs entirely on Exoscale infrastructure, available in all zones.

Key Features:

External Attack Surface Management (EASM): Discovers all internet-facing assets including forgotten subdomains, shadow IT, and unknown public services. Agent-less.
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM): Identifies misconfigurations like publicly accessible storage, permissive security groups, and compliance violations across multi-cloud.
Offensive Security Testing: Simulates attacks to validate defenses. Continuous vulnerability scanning and penetration testing.

Key Benefits:

Asset inventory automation, continuous assessment, CVE prioritization, dark web monitoring
IaC integration, webhooks, automated remediation, SIEM/ticketing integration
Compliance monitoring (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, SOC 2), unified multi-cloud visibility

SKS: Kubernetes Audit Webhook Support

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:01:50 +0000

We’ve introduced Kubernetes Audit Webhook support for SKS clusters. With this feature, you can now enable and configure Kubernetes Auditing on your cluster and forward audit events directly from the kube-apiserver to your own backend web server.

What’s changed?

You can enable/disable Kubernetes auditing at the cluster level.
Configuration is available via the Exoscale Portal. CLI and Terraform implementations are coming soon.
Auditing parameters can be defined, including:
- Endpoint URL
- Authentication via bearer token (with rotation support)
- Initial backoff

Key advantages

This functionality gives you complete visibility into Kubernetes API activity in your cluster, enabling integration with security and monitoring tools such as Falco or SIEM platforms. You gain:

Centralized auditing of API calls
Easier compliance reporting
Flexible configuration to match your security workflows

Check our documentation for details

SKS: Kubernetes 1.34 Now Available

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 07:08:38 +0000

We've made Kubernetes 1.34.0 available in our Scalable Kubernetes Service (SKS) for all customers just 24 hours after the upstream open-source release, enabling them to stay up to date as soon as possible. This update reinforces our commitment to providing a secure, up-to-date, and reliable managed Kubernetes platform.

What’s new

Kubernetes 1.34.0 is now available for both new and existing SKS clusters.
Enhanced GPU Node Support: nvidia-device-plugin should not be manually installed anymore when using these Kubernetes node versions: 1.31.12, 1.32.8, 1.33.4, 1.34.0

Key Benefits

Faster Innovation: Immediate access to the latest Kubernetes features and security fixes.
Simplified GPU Setup: Streamlined configuration with automated plugin deployment.
Reduced Operations: Lower operational overhead and minimized risk of misconfiguration.

For detailed information about GPU support in SKS, refer to our documentation

New on Exoscale Marketplace – SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:08:52 +0000

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is now available as an official template on the Exoscale Marketplace. This addition allows you to quickly deploy enterprise-grade Linux environments with built-in updates, hourly pay-as-you-go licensing, and full data sovereignty on Exoscale’s European cloud.

This strategic partnership with SUSE brings enterprise-grade Linux to our sovereign European cloud, combining security, compliance, proven open-source innovation, and performance for mission-critical workloads.

Key Benefits:

- Fully Sovereign European Solution: Deploy SLES on Exoscale and keep your data under European jurisdiction.

- Effortless Provisioning: Launch SLES virtual machines directly from our Marketplace, with preconfigured templates and immediate access to updates and security patches.

- Flexible Pay-As-You-Go Pricing: Consume SLES hourly, without the complexity of managing repositories or subscriptions.

This integration empowers businesses to run secure enterprise workloads, cloud-native stacks, and development environments on a platform designed for stability, scalability, and innovation.

Try it today and launch your server!

GPU1 Instances Retrofit: Upgrading from NVIDIA P100 to A30 in Geneva

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0000

We're excited to announce an upgrade to our GPU offering: instances equipped with NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs in our Geneva zone are retrofitted with more powerful NVIDIA A30 GPUs.

The NVIDIA A30 GPU represents a significant leap from the P100, featuring a newer Ampere architecture with improved tensor cores and 24 GB of HBM2 memory, along with 933 GB/s of memory bandwidth, enabling faster mixed-precision AI workloads and improved energy efficiency.

This upgrade allows our customers to take advantage of the newer architecture and better throughput without changing anything in their deployment.

💶 Check the GPU A30 pricing.

This change ensures our infrastructure keeps pace with the evolving demands of compute-intensive workloads while maintaining Exoscale's commitment to performance, transparency, and data sovereignty.

More details about our NVIDIA A30 offering

TPM 2.0 Support for Virtual Machines

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 06:35:56 +0000

We’ve added TPM 2.0 (Trusted Platform Module) support for Windows and Linux instances on Exoscale, significantly enhancing data protection and system integrity for these operating systems.

Why is it Important?

With rising demands for data security and compliance, TPM 2.0 introduces a hardware-based foundation, designed for workloads that require robust encryption and secure key handling.

It enables:

BitLocker drive encryption support for Windows Server
Improved key handling and secure storage for LUKS-encrypted block devices on Linux
Enhanced system integrity and data-at-rest protection

Availability

TPM 2.0 is available when creating new Windows or Linux instances, and can be enabled via:

Portal
CLI
API

For configuration details, check our documentation.

General Availability – Liquid-Cooled A5000 & 3080 Ti GPU Instances

Wed, 28 May 2025 14:30:00 +0000

We are excited to announce the general availability of our liquid-cooled NVIDIA RTX A5000 and 3080 Ti GPU instances. Following a successful public preview phase, these powerful GPU instances are fully integrated into our platform, featuring SLA-backed availability to ensure optimal performance and reliability.

Please note that as of June 1, 2025, these instances will transition from complimentary to billed usage, following our standard pricing guidelines. These GPUs are specifically designed to support compute-intensive workloads, including AI and ML training, rendering, and scientific simulations.

For detailed pricing information, please visit our pricing page: https://exoscale.com/pricing/#gpua5000-instances

Discover the benefits of our advanced liquid-cooling technology

CPU-Optimized PostgreSQL Plans

Tue, 13 May 2025 08:00:23 +0000

We’ve introduced new CPU-optimized variants to our Managed PostgreSQL service.

These plans are tailored for compute-intensive workloads where raw CPU performance matters. Ideal for:

Real-time analytics or large aggregations
High-concurrency applications with many parallel client connections
Bursting workloads with frequent CPU spikes (e.g., background processing, data transformations)

They pack 50 % more CPU cores for only ~ 20 % extra cost compared to the equivalent standard plan. No need to pay double to jump to the next tier.

You can explore these plans and their pricing using our Advanced Calculator or check them out directly on the Pricing Page.

Need to switch to a CPU-optimized plan?

See our Lifecycle Management guide to walk you through scaling operations

Rancher Integration for SKS Management

Fri, 09 May 2025 13:26:14 +0000

Our SKS product is now natively integrated with Rancher, the leading multicloud Kubernetes management platform. Thanks to our new cluster driver, Rancher users can now easily manage Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments, including Exoscale.

Manage Exoscale SKS clusters through Rancher’s centralized interface
Native integration with Exoscale — no additional Exoscale charges
Simplified cluster lifecycle management: provisioning, scaling, updating
Unified UI with RBAC-based access control for streamlined Kubernetes operations

Exoscale Pricing Calculator 2.0

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:00:16 +0000

A stand‑alone estimator that delivers an instantaneous Exoscale pricing indication.

Example: Switch to CHF/EUR/USD → add three Medium instances + 500 GB Block Storage → click “Share” to get a Link to your indication or to contact our sales team.

See our new calculator

Valkey is now available via CLI & Terraform

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 08:00:38 +0000

The DBaaS Valkey service is now fully supported via Exoscale CLI (https://github.com/exoscale/cli) and the Exoscale Terraform provider (https://registry.terraform.io/providers/exoscale/exoscale/latest/docs).

Existing Exoscale for Caching (formerly Redis®) customers must migrate toValkey by April 30, 2025. Manual migration is available via the Portal;any remaining instances will be transitioned automatically after this date.

For more details, see the Managed Valkey documentation.

New Feature: Bucket Replication (SOS)

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:07:40 +0000

We’re excited to introduce Bucket Replication for Simple Object Storage (SOS) – a powerful, automated solution designed to enhance data resilience, disaster recovery, same-zone and cross-zone synchronization.

What Makes It Great?

Same-Zone & Cross-Zone Replication – Seamlessly duplicate your data where you need it.
Automated & Asynchronous – New objects and updates are replicated effortlessly, ensuring eventual consistency.
Customizable Filtering – Use prefix-based rules to replicate only what matters.
Terraform Integration – Automate deployment and management with ease.
Built-in Compliance & Protection – Strengthen backup strategies and failover readiness.

Portal: Configuring replication

This feature is completely free to enable, though keep in mind that replication doubles storage usage and costs accordingly.

With SOS Bucket Replication, Exoscale continues to provide simple, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions for businesses that need secure and resilient storage infrastructure.

Learn more: Bucket Replication Documentation

Block Storage Now Available in Sofia & Vienna-2

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 08:15:00 +0000

We're expanding our Block Storage availability!

You can now deploy high-performance, scalable block storage in our Sofia (BG-SOF-1) and Vienna-2 (AT-VIE-2) zones. This addition ensures more flexibility for your workloads while maintaining the same reliability, durability, and seamless integration with Exoscale Compute as in other zones.

📖 Read the full documentation

Learn more about Block Storage

Valkey is now available on Exoscale!

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 13:44:04 +0000

We’re introducing Valkey, now available as a managed database service on Exoscale via the web portal (CLI & Terraform coming soon).

What is Valkey?

Valkey is an open-source, in-memory key-value database designed as a drop-in replacement for Redis®. It was created in response to Redis Ltd.’s license change, ensuring the continued availability of a truly open-source solution under the BSD license, backed by the Linux Foundation.

Why Choose Valkey?

Fully open-source with no licensing restrictions.
Compatible with Redis® 7.2.4, ensuring minimal migration effort.
Community-driven development with planned optimizations, such as multi-threading.

Exoscale Portal – Valkey Instance Setup Screen

Existing Exoscale for Caching customers (formerly Redis®) must migrate to Exoscale for Valkey by April 30, 2025.

A migration option is available in the web portal under the top-right menu in the service detail view.
Customers who do not migrate manually by April 30, 2025 will be migrated automatically.

Read our Valkey documentation

Block Storage: Minimum Volume Size Now 1 GiB

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:00:40 +0000

We’ve reduced the minimum block storage volume size from 10 GiB to 1 GiB, simplifying smaller workloads, aligning with multi-cloud environments, and ensuring easier Kubernetes Helm Chart compatibility.

Key highlights:

No immediate changes to billing; usage remains proportional to size (1 GiB -> 1 GiB)
Seamless resizing possible from 1 GiB onward

Valkey is Coming Soon to Exoscale: The Future of NoSQL Caching

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0000

We’re excited to announce that Valkey, a fully open-source, drop-in replacement for Redis®, will soon be available on Exoscale!

Why Valkey?

Valkey, maintained by the Linux Foundation, is fully backward-compatible with Redis 7.2.4.

It offers caching, message queues, and persistent key-value storage, with planned optimizations to improve performance and scalability.

What’s Next?

The full release of Valkey on Exoscale is planned for early 2025.
A detailed migration guide will ensure a smooth transition from Redis to Valkey.

Introducing External Integrations for DBaaS

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 09:01:16 +0000

Users can now forward database logs and metrics to external providers, enhancing monitoring, analytics, and operational insights.

As a first step, Datadog is now supported for seamless database monitoring and analytics.

Set up and manage Datadog integration directly in the Exoscale Portal via the new Endpoints tab.
Easily configure endpoints and manage settings, including API keys and Kafka-related options, for effortless integration.

What’s Next?

Additional third-party integrations will be rolled out soon, including:

Rsyslog
Prometheus
Opensearch
Elasticsearch

This marks the beginning of broader external integration support, enabling users to connect their databases to tools that suit their needs.

Learn more about DBaaS integrations

Block Storage now available in Zurich!

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:41:16 +0000

Block Storage is now generally available in the Zurich (CH-DK-2) zone, providing high-performance and reliable storage tailored to low-latency and local data residency needs. All Swiss zones are now covered.

More about Block Storage

SOS now supports conditional writes!

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 06:00:00 +0000

SOS now supports conditional writes, enabling operations that create objects to check the existence of an object before creating it.

Conditional writes enable distributed applications to synchronize over the same dataset, removing the need for an external consensus system.

This feature allows applications to prevent accidental overwrites in concurrent write scenarios, ensuring better data consistency in workloads.

Upcoming Feature: Bucket Replication is currently in development to enhance data redundancy and availability.

Explore the use cases for Conditional Writes

Portal Now Internationalized [EN, Partial FR, DE planned]

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 07:30:50 +0000

The Exoscale web portal now supports internationalization, with full English availability and partial French translations (approximately 75% complete) and German translation planned for early 2025. This enhancement reduces barriers for non-English-speaking users and aligns with HDS certification requirements for French health data.

Key Developments:

A translation management system is in place for efficient updates and handling of translation strings.
Ongoing work will continue to expand French translation coverage, ensuring a seamless user experience.
German translation is actively in development and will be launched in early 2025, enhancing accessibility for German-speaking users.
The portal's structure allows for expansion to additional languages based on demand, ensuring future scalability for multi-language capabilities.

Conditional Writes Now Supported in SOS

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:54:16 +0000

Details:

SOS now supports conditional writes, allowing operations that create objects to first verify the existence of an object before creation. This feature helps distributed applications synchronize over the same dataset without relying on an external consensus system and prevents accidental overwrites in concurrent write scenarios, ensuring improved data consistency in workloads.

Upcoming Feature:

Bucket Replication: Currently in development to enhance data redundancy and availability.

Exoscale obtains BSI C5 attestation

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 08:50:39 +0000

Following the recent SOC 2 Type 2 attestation, Exoscale obtained its BSI C5 attestation this month solidifying its compliance for the German market and beyond.

C5, which stands for Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue, was established by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in Germany. This German government-backed attestation scheme introduced in 2016 and recently updated provides an additional complement to ISO 27018 and other international cloud security standards.

As is most often the case, all of Exoscale's zones and products are fully covered under this framework and the attestation is available for download in the Compliance Center.

Block Storage now in Frankfurt

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 08:14:48 +0000

The block storage volumes can now be added to virtual machine instances in the Frankfurt zone as well. This completes our country presence with this product and its native CSI driver for SKS, Exoscale's managed Kubernetes service.

Next up is the rollout in the Zurich and Vienna 2 zones, bringing full coverage for Switzerland and Austria zone pairs.

SOC-2 Type 2 attestation

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 12:32:23 +0000

Exoscale has now obtained its SOC-2 Type 2 attestation, a continuation from last year's SOC-2 Type 1 achievement.

Unlike a one-time audit, This external audit involves a rigorous evaluation of the organization's systems and processes over a period of time, ensuring that they meet the stringent criteria for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.

Exoscale's self-service compliance center

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To achieve this, the company implemented robust security controls, conducted regular internal audits, and engaged an independent third-party auditor to verify that these controls were effectively enforced and consistently monitored. The successful attainment of SOC-2 Type 2 attestation provides cloud customers and stakeholders with assurance that Exoscale is dedicated to safeguarding their data and maintaining a trustworthy operational environment.

Our next milestone is like for SOC-2, to achieve BSI C5 attestation this fall.

Find our SOC-2 Type 2 report in our compliance center