Exoscale

Platform

Products

name: Standard Instances; category: virtual_machine; cpu isolation: shared; description: General-purpose KVM virtual machines from 1 vCPU and 512 MiB RAM to 24 vCPU and 225 GiB RAM, with separately metered local SSD storage; available in every Exoscale zone., name: CPU Optimized Instances; category: virtual_machine; cpu isolation: shared; description: KVM virtual machines for CPU-intensive workloads, from 8 vCPU/16 GiB to 40 vCPU/128 GiB; available in every Exoscale zone., name: Memory Optimized Instances; category: virtual_machine; cpu isolation: shared; description: KVM virtual machines for RAM-intensive workloads, from 2 vCPU/16 GiB to 12 vCPU/128 GiB; available in every Exoscale zone., name: Storage Optimized Instances; category: virtual_machine; cpu isolation: shared; description: KVM virtual machines with 1–15 TB of separately metered dense local SSD capacity; current public instance-type availability excludes DE-MUC-1 but includes the other in-scope zones., name: GPU Instances; category: gpu_virtual_machine; cpu isolation: shared_or_dedicated_by_size; description: Screened-access NVIDIA GPU KVM families: V100 in AT-VIE-1; A40 in DE-FRA-1; A5000 and RTX 3080 Ti in AT-VIE-2; and RTX Pro 6000 in DE-FRA-1 and HR-ZAG-1. Selected large GPU sizes require dedicated hypervisors., name: Dedicated Hypervisor Deploy Targets; category: dedicated_virtual_machine_host; cpu isolation: dedicated; description: Compute instances and instance pools can be assigned to a dedicated hypervisor through a deploy target; public self-service pricing for a dedicated target was not found.

Operating systems

Arch Linux Rolling, CentOS Stream 9, CentOS Stream 10, Debian 12 (Bookworm), Debian 13 (Trixie), Fedora CoreOS 43, Fedora CoreOS 44, OpenBSD 7.8, OpenBSD 7.9, OpenSUSE Leap 16.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 BYOL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.8 BYOL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 BYOL, Rocky Linux 9, Rocky Linux 10, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.10, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2025, Windows Server 2022 or 2025 with SQL Server 2022, Custom KVM-compatible QCOW2 images, snapshots and custom ISO-built templates

Virtualization

KVM managed hypervisor platform for Compute Instances

CPU isolation

Ordinary Compute Instances run on shared physical infrastructure, Dedicated hypervisor deploy targets are available for instances and instance pools, Some large GPU instance types are restricted to dedicated hypervisors

Features

• App installation name: Exoscale Marketplace VM templates; current public examples: BunkerWeb 1.6.11, Cisco ASAv 9.16.3 BYOL, FortiGate 7.4.8 and 7.6.2 BYOL, IPFire 2.29 Core Update 197, Palo Alto Networks Firewall 10.2.1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7, VyOS 1.5.0; deployment interfaces: Marketplace, Portal, API
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• Templates & images types: frequently updated official public OS templates, vendor Marketplace templates, private custom KVM-compatible QCOW2 templates imported by URL, Packer-built templates, instance snapshots registered as templates, custom ISO-built templates; scope: Custom templates are registered separately in each zone.
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• Network orchestration interfaces and tooling: Exoscale Portal, zone-local V2 API, exo CLI, official Terraform provider, official Crossplane providers, language SDKs, Pulumi integration for SKS; services: Instance Pools with automatic desired-size maintenance, Managed Kubernetes (SKS) and node pools, managed or manual private L2 networks, Elastic IPs with health checks, anti-affinity groups, private instances, VPC beta
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• Firewall name: Security Groups; type: hypervisor-managed Layer 2, Layer 3 and Layer 4 ingress and egress filtering; defaults: all ingress denied and all egress allowed until an egress rule is defined; interfaces: Portal, API, CLI, Terraform
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• Load balancer name: Network Load Balancer; type: managed Layer 4 TCP/UDP load balancer for same-zone Instance Pools; strategies: round robin, source hash, Maglev consistent hash; capabilities: integrated health checks, automatic backend updates as an Instance Pool scales, up to 10 independently configured services per NLB, automatic provisioning from Kubernetes LoadBalancer services
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• DNS management name: Exoscale DNS; scope: subscription-based authoritative zone hosting built with DNSimple; interfaces: Portal, API, CLI, Terraform; record types: A, AAAA, CAA, CNAME, HINFO, MX, NAPTR, NS, SPF, SRV, SSHFP, TXT, URL, POOL, ALIAS; domain registration: not_applicable — Exoscale explicitly states that it does not register domains
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• Git integrations providers: GitLab.com; capabilities: official recipe for autoscaled GitLab CI/CD runners on SKS using Karpenter, GitLab group-runner token and official GitLab Helm chart workflow; GitHub: not_found; integration type: documented self-managed CI runner integration; no native source-to-deployment service was found
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• Container registry providers: Docker Hub; capabilities: the official GitLab Runner-on-SKS recipe runs CI jobs from the Docker Hub alpine:latest image, SKS provides a CNCF-certified Kubernetes environment for container workloads; native exoscale container registry: not_found
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