Outscale Cloud Compute
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What is Outscale Cloud Compute
Outscale Cloud Compute is an infrastructure-as-a-service offering that provides on-demand virtual machines, networking, and storage to run applications and workloads in the cloud. It targets IT teams and developers that need elastic compute capacity for web applications, enterprise systems, and development/test environments. The service is positioned around operating in European jurisdictions and supporting regulated or sovereignty-focused deployments, alongside standard IaaS primitives and APIs.
Core IaaS building blocks
The product provides the foundational components expected from an IaaS platform, including virtual compute instances, virtual networking, and storage services. This supports common workload patterns such as lift-and-shift, scalable web tiers, and batch processing. It fits teams that want infrastructure control without managing physical hardware.
Sovereignty and compliance focus
Outscale emphasizes operation in Europe and alignment with sovereignty-oriented requirements, which can matter for public sector and regulated industries. This can simplify vendor selection when data residency and jurisdiction are primary constraints. It is a practical differentiator versus more globally standardized IaaS footprints.
API-driven infrastructure operations
Outscale Cloud Compute is designed for programmatic provisioning and lifecycle management of infrastructure resources. This supports infrastructure-as-code practices and repeatable environment creation for development and operations teams. API-driven control also helps integrate the platform into CI/CD and automation workflows.
Smaller global service footprint
Compared with the largest hyperscale IaaS providers, Outscale typically offers fewer regions and availability zones. This can limit options for ultra-low-latency global deployments and complex multi-region architectures. Organizations with worldwide user bases may need additional design work or complementary providers.
Ecosystem and managed services depth
IaaS platforms vary widely in the breadth of higher-level managed services (e.g., fully managed databases, analytics, and AI services) and third-party marketplace integrations. If a workload strategy depends heavily on a large catalog of managed services, teams may need to rely more on self-managed components. This can increase operational responsibility compared with platforms that bundle extensive managed offerings.
Skills and portability considerations
Even when APIs resemble common cloud patterns, operational details, tooling support, and service limits can differ across IaaS providers. Teams may need to validate compatibility with existing automation, monitoring, and security tooling. Migration planning should include testing for API parity, networking behavior, and image/instance availability.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go (on-demand); per-second billing (prices shown per hour on public price lists).
Free tier/trial: No permanent free tier or general free trial is listed on the official OUTSCALE pricing pages. The OUTSCALE Marketplace supports free/open-source OMI offers where only OUTSCALE VM rates apply.
Example costs (selected, Europe - eu-west-2 region, from official price list):
- GiB RAM unit – €0.005 per hour.
- vCore unit (v7 CPU generation) – €0.034 per hour.
- vCore unit (v6 CPU generation) – €0.031 per hour.
- Dedicated VM usage – €2.00 per hour.
- NVIDIA A100 (80GB) GPU – €3.60 per hour.
- Public IP use – €0.005 per hour.
- NAT Gateway – €0.05 per hour.
- Load Balancer Unit (LBU) – €0.030 per hour.
- VPN connection – €0.03 per hour.
- Object Storage (OOS) – €0.025 per GiB per month.
- DirectLink (1 Gbit/s) – Setup fee €1,000; Monthly commitment €400 (per official table).
Pricing notes & variability:
- Prices vary by Region and by hardware generation (tables provide per-region values for EU / US / ASIA, etc.).
- Pricing is consumption-based (unit prices for vCore and GiB RAM used to calculate custom VM hourly price); OUTSCALE bills per second.
- For machine-image (OMI) marketplace offers, software pricing depends on the seller; free/open-source OMIs incur no additional product rate (you only pay the OUTSCALE VM rate).
Discounts / committed-use options:
- OUTSCALE offers resource reservations (1 month, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years) with discounts up to 60% off on-demand VM pricing depending on commitment length and payment terms (up to 60% with upfront 3-year).
- Reservation discount table and commitment/payment options are published on the OUTSCALE website.
(Prices and examples taken directly from OUTSCALE official pricing and documentation pages.)
Seller details
OUTSCALE SAS (Dassault Systèmes)
Saint-Cloud, France
2010
Subsidiary
https://www.outscale.com/
https://x.com/outscale
https://www.linkedin.com/company/outscale/
