ELASTX

Swedish infrastructure for sensitive data

For organisations that must keep sensitive data in Sweden, ELASTX runs cloud infrastructure from its own Swedish data centres. Clients can keep their whole setup with one provider in the country, which matters to healthcare and other regulated businesses that cannot easily send information abroad. Prorenata, a healthcare documentation company, is one client that stores its data in Sweden. The company holds ISO 27001 and ISO 14001 certification, and it states that its platform stays clear of US Cloud Act requests and meets GDPR requirements.

Managed OpenStack, Kubernetes and databases

The core service is infrastructure as a service on OpenStack, with virtual machines, storage and networking that clients can build on. For teams that prefer a managed layer, ELASTX runs Kubernetes as a container service, so customers deploy containerised applications while the provider looks after the cluster. A separate database service covers MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL and Valkey, with automated provisioning and high availability. A platform-as-a-service offering built on Virtuozzo lets teams start an application quickly, and a content delivery network based on Varnish Cache serves content from Swedish sites.

Three availability zones and security tools

The platform is built across three availability zones. Each is a separate data centre about 20 km from the others, so services can keep running from the other two if one site has a problem. Security services cover protection against distributed denial-of-service attacks, a firewall built for web applications, and encrypted storage with a hardware security module, plus threat intelligence. The company says it starts troubleshooting within 15 minutes, and monitoring is available for clients who want it. Other offers include VPN, colocation and mail relay.

Green power and an AI platform

ELASTX says its electricity comes from 100 per cent renewable sources, and it presents that as part of its environmental commitment. Its newer AI offer supplies GPU capacity to clients developing artificial intelligence workloads in Swedish facilities, and GPUs are also available on its OpenStack and Kubernetes services for clients who want to build the stack themselves.