UpCloud Managed Kubernetes Data plane, € 18.00/mo. on Linux Cloud

Managed Kubernetes Data plane has been added on May 25, 2026

💪 CPU/Cores :	1-8 CPU core(s), 1-8 Kubernetes worker node(s)
🔋 RAM :	2000 MB
🔌 Hosted domains :	1
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPal
🔨 Control Panel :	[In-house]
🔧 Category :	Fully Managed
✍️ Support Options :	EmailLive ChatAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	Australia Denmark Finland Germany Netherlands Norway Poland Singapore Spain Sweden United Kingdom United States
⚑ Targeting :	FI SG UK US
💰 Money-back guarantee :	30 days
🚀 Uptime :	99.999 %

See also initial Managed Kubernetes Data plane plan location on their website!

*📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

UpCloud is a Finnish, European-owned cloud infrastructure provider headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, with roots going back to 2011. The company is strongly connected with founder and CTO Joel Pihlajamaa, who came from the Finnish hosting industry before UpCloud became a separate cloud infrastructure brand. Today, UpCloud is best understood as an IaaS / cloud platform, not as a classic shared hosting provider.

This is not the right company for customers looking for traditional shared hosting, cPanel hosting, cheap bundled domains, or beginner website-builder hosting. UpCloud’s real strength is infrastructure: Cloud Servers, GPU Servers, Private Cloud, Private Cloud GPUs, Managed Kubernetes, Managed Databases, Block Storage, File Storage, Object Storage, Simple Backup, Software Defined Networking, Load Balancer, NAT Gateway, VPN Gateway, and zero-cost egress services.

Their cloud servers work well for developers, SaaS platforms, agencies, hosting resellers, application operators, eCommerce projects, and businesses that want direct control over compute, storage, networking, backups, scaling and automation. Plans include cost-focused starter cloud servers, higher-performance premium servers, cloud-native compute, and GPU servers using NVIDIA L4, L40S, H100 and B200 options for AI, machine learning, rendering, inference and other accelerated workloads.

A major advantage is the European sovereign-cloud positioning. UpCloud is based in Finland, has a strong EU compliance profile, and offers European data-center choices for companies that care about GDPR, data locality, vendor independence and avoiding excessive dependency on the largest hyperscale clouds. For technical customers, the combination of API access, Terraform/OpenTofu tooling, CLI support, private networking, managed databases and object storage makes the platform more complete than a basic VPS host.

The website is modern, responsive and available in English. It does not look like an old, narrow-width hosting site from the "old days." Prices are available in EUR, with USD also supported on the pricing interface.