UpCloud
High-performance Finnish cloud with industry-leading disk I/O — an alternative to DigitalOcean and Linode.
About
UpCloud is a Finnish cloud provider founded in 2012, offering IaaS infrastructure with a strong focus on storage performance and reliability. Its MaxIOPS storage technology consistently benchmarks as the fastest block storage in Europe, making it particularly well-suited for database workloads. UpCloud operates data centres in Helsinki, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and several other locations globally — with EU data residency available across all primary EU zones. It offers VMs, private cloud, object storage, managed load balancers, and a clean API. UpCloud is certified ISO 27001 and signs a GDPR DPA for all customers, making it a strong choice for Finnish and Nordic companies with performance-critical applications.
Details
- Founded
- 2012
- Headquarters
- Helsinki, Finland