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Exoscale

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European cloud hosting provider offering compute, storage and managed Kubernetes

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Exoscale ships Managed ClickHouse and deepens Kubernetes Karpenter support as European cloud buildout accelerates.

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◆Current state
Exoscale is a European cloud provider shipping across three active tracks: managed databases, Kubernetes infrastructure, and marketplace ecosystem. The headline addition this cycle is Managed ClickHouse—a GDPR-compliant OLAP service—marking a meaningful expansion of their managed data tier. Concurrently, Kubernetes 1.37 landed on SKS and the Karpenter integration received container registry mirroring and CPU Manager policy support, targeting teams running large-scale or latency-sensitive workloads.
◆Where it's heading
Exoscale is building a broad European cloud alternative with a tight focus on compliance and managed services. Each new managed database (ClickHouse follows their earlier Kafka and PostgreSQL offerings) reduces the operational overhead they expect customers to carry themselves. The Karpenter feature cadence and GPU MIG partitioning hint at a deliberate AI infrastructure push: smaller teams that want to run GPU workloads without owning bare-metal now have a path on Exoscale. The marketplace is accumulating AI-adjacent tools alongside traditional partner integrations.
◆Prediction
A managed vector database or AI-focused storage tier is likely next, fitting the pattern of each managed-service launch targeting a category where operators currently run their own nodes. GPU MIG support for SKS and marketplace additions like SOKKAN reinforce this direction.

◆Recent moves

  1. 8d ago

    Marketplace: SOKKAN AI development cockpit now on Exoscale

    SOKKAN—an AI development cockpit for teams running parallel Claude Code sessions with persistent memory and human-in-the-loop approvals—is now available on the Exoscale Marketplace. Its presence signals Exoscale's marketplace expanding into AI developer tooling, and SOKKAN Cloud runs on Exoscale infrastructure in Geneva.

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  2. 16d ago

    SKS: Kubernetes 1.37 Now Available

    Kubernetes 1.37 (Garhwal) is now available on SKS, bringing 67 enhancements including a stable metrics API, stable Pod Certificates and Cluster Trust Bundles for workload identity, and stable Node Declared Features for safer mixed-version cluster upgrades. These stabilities matter for teams that build tooling on top of these APIs.

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  3. 23d ago

    New partner: CC-Interactive joins Works with Exoscale

    CC-Interactive and its SmartBoard AI BI platform join the Works with Exoscale ecosystem. A partner announcement with no product capability change for existing Exoscale customers.

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  4. 26d ago

    New partner: Lombiq joins Works with Exoscale

    Lombiq, a .NET Orchard Core CMS specialist, joins the Works with Exoscale partner ecosystem. Partner ecosystem expansion with no new Exoscale platform capability.

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  5. 27d ago

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

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    Managed ClickHouse arrives on Exoscale as a fully managed OLAP database service on GDPR-compliant European infrastructure. This adds a new category to Exoscale's managed data tier—fast columnar analytics at scale without operating a cluster—and is the most significant new service launch in this period.

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  6. 28d ago

    SKS: Container registry mirroring for Karpenter nodes

    SKS now supports OCI registry mirror configuration in ExoscaleNodeClass for Karpenter-provisioned nodes, enabling faster image pulls, reduced egress costs, and better supply-chain control. This is the operational detail that large-scale Karpenter deployments need to reduce dependency on public registry availability.

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