Register No. 031

Is Exoscale European?

Not European

No. Exoscale is controlled from Mexico.

Exoscale is a Swiss company, but it belongs to the Austrian telecom group A1, and A1 is controlled by the Mexican group América Móvil, which holds about 61% of it. The Austrian state holds about 28% and has some rights under a shareholders' agreement, but control sits in Mexico.

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Controlled by
América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V.
Control sits in
Mexico
Legal entity
Akenes SA
Company register
Registre du commerce du Canton de Vaud (Zefix) · CHE-423.524.322
Seat
Lausanne, Switzerland
Founded
2011
Last checked

About Exoscale

Exoscale is a cloud platform with virtual machines, managed Kubernetes, object storage, managed databases and GPU servers. It is run by Akenes SA in Lausanne, Switzerland, and has cloud zones in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Bulgaria and Croatia. Developers and companies that want their data kept in Europe use it.

Ownership

Akenes SA (Lausanne) is 100% owned and fully consolidated by the A1 Telekom Austria Group (Telekom Austria AG, Vienna) and sits in its A1 Digital unit. At 31 December 2025 América Móvil held 60.94% of Telekom Austria AG through América Móvil B.V. (Netherlands), and A1's annual report names América Móvil, based in Mexico, as the group's ultimate parent. The Austrian state holding ÖBAG holds 28.42% under a shareholders' agreement renewed in 2023 for ten years.

Evidence 5

  1. Exoscale About Us: trademark of Akenes SA, founded 2011, member of A1 Digital, part of A1 Telekom Austria Groupexoscale.com ↗
  2. A1 Telekom Austria Group annual financial report 2025 (German): Akenes S.A. 100%, América Movil ultimate parent with 60.94%, ÖBAG 28.42%a1.com ↗
  3. Zefix: Akenes SA, Lausanne, CHE-423.524.322zefix.ch ↗
  4. A1 Group investor relations, share page: core shareholders América Movil and ÖBAGa1.com ↗
  5. Exoscale data centres: zones in Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna, Geneva, Zurich, Sofia, Zagreb, Madrid announcedexoscale.com ↗

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Products 5

Exoscale SKS (Scalable Kubernetes Service)

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Instead of
Amazon EKS and Google Kubernetes Engine

Exoscale Object Storage

exoscale.com ↗

S3 compatible object storage from Switzerland

Exoscale Object Storage is the S3 compatible object storage service of the Swiss cloud platform Exoscale. It has a standard tier and a cheaper archival tier for cold data, and it works with the usual S3 clients and libraries.

Instead of
Amazon S3
Pricing
Standard storage costs 0.00002750 EUR per GB per hour and archival storage 0.00000626 EUR per GB per hour. Incoming traffic is free and outgoing traffic costs 0.02 EUR per GB.
Suits
Backups and archives that must stay in European zones

Exoscale

exoscale.com ↗

Cloud computing platform from Switzerland

Exoscale is a cloud computing platform from Switzerland with several server locations within Europe. It offers virtual servers in CPU, memory and storage optimised shapes, GPU instances for heavy computation, S3 compatible object storage, managed Kubernetes, managed databases, DNS and a CDN. The database service covers Apache Kafka and Redis next to MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Suits
Engineering teams that want a full cloud stack in Europe