# UpCloud

> <p><strong>Ownership:</strong> Privately held<br><strong>Pricing:</strong> 1 core / 1 GB RAM instances from €7/month. Pay-as-you-go.<br><strong>Known for:</strong> Finnish cloud platform with high-IOPS block storage. Virtual servers, VPC, managed databases, managed Kubernetes, object storage. Data centres across Europe, US, and APAC. The performance bet. Their I/O numbers genuinely beat AWS on equivalent specs. Pick this for database-heavy or memory-intensive workloads.<br><a href="https://upcloud.com">https://upcloud.com</a></p>

https://upcloud.com