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Exoscale
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Exoscale is the company blog at exoscale.com, writing about systems and web. Since 2018, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “European Cloud Hosting with Exoscale”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Exoscale as a Swiss/European cloud provider, often as a non-US alternative for object storage, managed Kubernetes or VMs. The linked pages are mainly product and pricing pages plus a CLOUD Act vs GDPR post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Exoscale is a European cloud provider for compute, storage, networking, Kubernetes, databases and AI workloads. GDPR-compliant, with zero lock-in.
Most-linked posts?
- European Cloud Hosting with Exoscale4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-02-25
- /object-storage/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-20
- Java for Serverless: Ahead-of-Time Compilation with Micronaut and GraalVM2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-04
What Hacker News says?
I do understand that, my point was that the pieces needed to provide it as a managed service are much easier to come up with in comparison to what AWS had to do with Fargate. - https://www.scaleway.com/en/kubernetes-kapsule/ - https://www.exoscale.com/syslog/introducing-scalable-kuberne...
Comment linking /syslog/introducing-scalable-kubernetes-service/
on “Moving away from US cloud services”Submitted Microservices Circuit-Breaker Pattern Implementation: Istio vs. Hystrix as a story · 86 points
HN discussion> It's not just AWS. I think there are only two types of cloud providers: The ones like AWS and DigitalOcean that shift the risk to the customer and the ones that offer shady "unlimited" and "unmetered" plans. Actually there is a third category, those who care. I will grant you it is a rare category but it is there. One example name: Exoscale[1] Swiss cloud provider, they offer: (a) hard spend limits via account pre…
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on “I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100”Submitted Clojure tutorial: build an application from scratch as a story · 9 points
HN discussionIf you are connecting from Europe, maybe you could consider exoscale.com 's S3 storage offering? It's 100% european (with Swiss and German regions), and priced pretty aggressively. https://www.exoscale.com/object-storage/ Disclaimer: I now work for exoscale, but was a happy user before that.
Comment linking /object-storage/
on “Show HN: B2blaze – A Backblaze B2 library for Python”Submitted Docker Logging, a Hitchhiker's Guide as a story · 7 points
HN discussionExoscale | Cloud provider | Fully Remote (EU) | Full-Time | https://www.exoscale.com/ Exoscale is a Swiss/European cloud service provider. We offer not only virtual machines but also storage (Object & Block), managed k8s and databases etc... We're looking for multiple SWEs & SREs either in Switzerland or remotely across Europe! Join a dynamic working environment with a cutting-edge distributed team. Exoscale strives…
Comment linking /jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)”Submitted What is devOps: a 2018 perspective as a story · 7 points
HN discussionExoscale | Cloud provider | Fully Remote (EU timezone) | Full-Time | https://www.exoscale.com/ Exoscale is a Swiss/European cloud service provider. We offer not only virtual machines but also storage (Object & Block), managed k8s and databases etc... We're looking for multiple SWEs & SREs either in Switzerland or remotely across Europe! Join a dynamic working environment with a cutting-edge distributed team. Exoscal…
Comment linking /jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)”Submitted European Cloud Hosting with Exoscale as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Now it is affordable to train a useful network on the cloud I honestly don't see how anything changed significantly in past 2 years. Benchmarks indicate that a V100 is barely 2x the performance of an RTX 2080 Ti [1] and a V100 is • $2.50/h at Google [2] • $13.46/h (4xV100) at Microsoft Azure [3] • $12.24/h (4xV100) at AWS [4] • ~$2.80/h (2xV100, 1 month) at LeaderGPU [5] • ~$3.38/h (4xV100, 1 month) at Exoscale [6…
Comment linking /gpu/
on “The cost to train an AI system is improving at 50x the pace of Moore’s Law”Submitted Circuit Breaker Pattern: Migrating from Hystrix to Resilience4J as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSwiss https://www.exoscale.com/ also needs an obligatory mention here.
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on “European Cloud, Global Reach”Submitted How to Integrate Spring with Micronaut as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInstead of arguing back and forth, how about a test case instead? Pretraining BERT takes 44 minutes on 1024 V100 GPUs [1] This requires dedicated instances, since shared instances won't be able to get to peak performance if only because of the "noisy neighbour"-effect. At GCP, a V100 costs $2.48/h [2], so Microsoft's experiment would've cost $2,539.52. Smaller providers offer the same GPU at just $1.375/h [3], so a…
Comment linking /syslog/new-tesla-v100-gpu-offering/
on “Analyzing the performance of Tensorflow training on M1 Mac Mini and Nvidia V100”Submitted Java for Serverless: Ahead-of-Time Compilation with Micronaut and GraalVM as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://www.exoscale.com/
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on “U.S. Cloud Act is raising concern about extraterritoriality”Submitted Java for Serverless with Ahead-of-Time Compilation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere is pithos [1] from the Exoscale [2] and powers the production system. A new version of the open source project with API signature v4 and other updates is due out soon. [1] http://pithos.io/ [2] https://www.exoscale.com/object-storage/
Comment linking /object-storage/
on “Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean”Submitted Kubernetes zero downtime deployment: when theory meets the database as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAny of this should work. https://ramnode.com/vps.php (kvm) https://www.vultr.com/pricing/ https://www.exoscale.com/compute/ https://openbsd.amsterdam/ https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices
Comment linking /compute/
on “Falling in love with OpenBSD again”Submitted Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline Using CircleCI and Docker as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIndeed. I also fail to see how the existence of the CLOUD act, and thus use of any US company, is compatible with GDPR. See https://www.exoscale.com/blog/cloudact-vs-gdpr/ ( Though note exoscale, as a European provider has skin in the game here ).
Comment linking /blog/cloudact-vs-gdpr/
on “Danish Gov agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence”Submitted Integrate Evolutionary Database Design in Your Continuous Integration Pipeline as a story · 1 points
HN discussion(Disclaimer: founder of Exoscale) To address your partiality to Swiss products, check out Exoscale for a similar (5$) simple experience with advanced features in Datacenters in Geneva, Zurich, Vienna and Frankfurt. https://www.exoscale.com
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on “Best Alternative to DigitalOcean?”Submitted A guide to the hybrid cloud networking landscape as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> You probably want to try renting some time on a dedicated box with roughly the specs you’re considering and running the open models You don't even need to go that far. For example, with Exoscale Dedicated Inference[1] you just point it at the Hugging Face for the model and quantisation you want to test and it automagically spits out an OpenAI-compatible API endpoint. [1] https://www.exoscale.com/ai-cloud-infrastru…
Comment linking /ai-cloud-infrastructure/dedicated-inference/
on “Two Qwen3 models on one DGX Spark: the residency math”