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Cleura - The European Cloud
Accelerate growth by building your business in a modern European cloud.
Maximise your data
Use your data to its fullest potential and retain innovations in Europe.
Zero lock-in
Integrate new solutions into cloud technology that doesn’t restrict you to a single provider.
Programmable IaaS
Streamline workflows, reduce manual tasks and coordinate your infrastructure with code.
Pay as you go
Only pay for what you use — pricing that scales with your needs.
Open source at heart
We are committed to a data-sovereign Europe, driving business with sustainable, open-source, and european cloud services. Cleura Cloud is powered by OpenStack.
Our deployment models
IaaS for every need
Our cloud deployment models facilitate and power innovation for regulated industries, developers, SMB and Enterprises.
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Find out how Cleura Public Cloud and Compliant Cloud differ in terms of the platform, terms, security and compliance.
For Cleura Private Cloud, all parameters, including location and compliance can be tailored to your organisation's needs.
For Cleura Private Cloud, all parameters, including location and compliance can be tailored to your organisation's needs.
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Multi-tenant cloud
Cleura Public Cloud and Compliant Cloud are separate multi-tenant, fully scalable clouds. Customers can sign up to Public Cloud online, and the multi-tenancy is shared between those customers. Compliant Cloud requires a dedicated signed agreement and the multi-tenancy is only shared between Compliant Cloud customers.
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Self-service capabilities
Cleura Cloud Management Panel (CCMP) and APIs enable you to easily and programatically use cloud computing resources.
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Vendor-neutral cloud
Our cloud deployment models are based on OpenStack, one of the largest and most active open source projects in the world. This gives you a cloud platform with full flexibility and vendor independence. It allows you to scale out in any other OpenStack-based cloud, connect private clouds and switch providers at will.
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Professional services
Our technicians and architects excel in open source solutions for cloud computing and distributed cloud storage. We can help your organization every step of the way. Whether you need us for various levels of technical support, deployment of an OpenStack cloud environment or a Ceph storage cluster, we have the knowledge and experience to guide you through the entire process.
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Managed services
Our Managed Services team can remotely ensure that your infrastructure and platform services are taken care of 24/7/365. These add-on services can be applied to any part of your Cleura infrastructure and allows you to focus on what you do best while we do the same thing.
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Hybrid cloud ready
Public Cloud: With standard tools.
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Cloud regions
We offer Compliant Cloud, Public Cloud and Private Cloud in multiple cloud regions.
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Stockholm: STO2
Karlskrona: KNA1 Frankfurt: FRA1 |
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Stockholm: STO-COM
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Availability zones
Our availability zones (AZs) are interconnected by high-bandwidth, fully redundant, low-latency fiber networks. This ensures your workloads can seamlessly shift between availability zones without compromising performance.
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Tailored features & services
Need a customised setup or new features? Tailor your cloud experience with our adaptable methods to succeed with your business strategy. We are always open to collaborate and help you achieve your business objectives with Cleura.
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SLA 99.90% - 99.99%
Clear metrics for availability and response times, ensuring reliable service delivery and support.
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Agreement | Standard
Clear, standardised terms enabling you to quickly get started.
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Tailored
An agreement tailored to your needs, taking into account your security and compliance requirements, and a data processing agreement (DPA) adapted to your specific processing activities.
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Support
All Cleura customers have access to Customer service, documentation, and our tutorials free of charge.
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Free & paid
In addition to free customer serice, we offer paid support plans for improved response times and additional technical support.
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Cleura Compliant Cloud always comes with a paid support plan to ensure rapid response times and additional technical support.
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Maintenance schedule | Fixed
Fixed maintenance schedule.
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Flexible
Maintenance schedule can be discussed to minimise impact on your applications.
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ISO 9001 certified
ISO 9001:2015 outlines requirements for organizations to establish systems that drive continuous improvement and customer satisfaction. Its emphasis on risk-based thinking helps organizations optimize performance, enhance product quality, and maintain compliance with industry regulations.
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ISO 14001 certified
ISO 14001:2015 outlines requirements for organizations to manage their environmental responsibilities and reduce their ecological footprint. Its focus on risk management and continual improvement helps organizations proactively address environmental challenges and adapt to regulatory changes.
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ISO 27001:2022 certified
ISO 27001:2022 outlines requirements for information security, cybersecurity, and privacy protection. Its ICT business continuity requirements help organizations prepare for, respond to and recover from disruptive incidents.
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EU data sovereignty
Cleura will never, by its own mandate, transfer data outside of the data center region where the data was first provisioned by the user.
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Dedicated logical access
Compliant Cloud logical access goes through a dedicated secure entry gateway which only accepts the IP ranges you have specified.
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Security & compliance |
Standard
Cleura Public Cloud is provided with a fixed, standard level of security.
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Tailored
Cleura Compliant Cloud is provided with the opportunity to discuss tailored measures like extended reporting, adapted backup schedules, cryptographic requirements or other steps to enable compliance with your unique requirements or specific certifications.
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Data processing agreement |
Standard
Cleura Public Cloud offers a fixed, standard data processing agreement (DPA).
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Tailored
Cleura Compliant Cloud offers a data processing agreement (DPA) tailored to your specific processing activities.
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NIS2 cybersecurity
You have risks, we bring cybersecurity. Our cloud services offer security levels appropriate for different types of risks.
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Standard
Cleura Public Cloud offers a standard level of cybersecurity, which may be appropriate for some uses under NIS2. As a NIS2 entity, you are responsible for assessing whether Cleura Public Cloud offers sufficient security or whether you need a higher level of security, such as the one provided by Cleura Compliant Cloud.
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Extended
Cleura Compliant Cloud offers a higher level of cybersecurity, which may be appropriate for more demanding uses under NIS2. For example, Cleura Compliant Cloud offers availability zones, helping you meet especially stringent business continuity requirements, e.g. under NIS2 Article 21(2)(c). As a NIS2 entity, you are responsible for assessing how you can use Cleura Compliant Cloud.
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Personnel screening
Every team member with physical and/or logical access to our infrastructure is thoroughly screened to ensure a secure, trusted experience.
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Extended
Personnel access to Cleura Compliant Cloud requires a more extensive screening process.
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Physical access controls
Physical access controls protect access to hardware, such as servers and other equipment located in the data centers.
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Standard
Cleura Public Cloud physical access controls include requiring badge identification and authentication, as well as standard CCTV coverage.
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Extended
Cleura Compliant Cloud has extended physical access controls, including data centers with multi-layered security zones, second factor verification (such as biometric or badge+PIN), extended physical security (such as racks with tamper-proof seals), and CCTV covering every angle of Cleura’s IT stack.
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Data centers Cleura uses must meet the following minimum requirements. | Cleura Public Cloud | Cleura Compliant Cloud |
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Multi-layer physical security zones
For Compliant Cloud, we only select data centers with multi-layer physical security zones to prevent unauthorized access.
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MSB Protection Class 3
We only select data centers which meet the Swedish Civil Contingency Agency's (MSB) description of a data center with Protection Class 3 (Skyddsnivå 3) according to MSB629.
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Redundancy | TIER-2
TIER-2 means a single distribution path for power and cooling, with partial reduncancy of certain systems.
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TIER-3
TIER-3 means full N+1 redundancy of all systems, including power supply and cooling distribution paths.
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Security staff | 24/7/365 | 24/7/365 on-site |
Monitoring & surveillance | Standard
CCTV at main entrance, cage entrance and inside cage, with alerts to security staff.
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Extended
Dedicated security control center with on-site staff, and enhanced CCTV detection and alert systems.
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Industry leaders that trusts Cleura

Defense
"The cooperation is strong proof that our cloud serivces meet the highest requirements regarding security, compliance, and innovation"

Public Sector
"As a municipality, it was naturally of the outmost importance to protect our citizens' information and ensure that sensitive information was not transferred to a third country"

AI
"It is a big advantage that boost.ai offers its service via the Swedish cloud service Cleura, which has built-in regulatory compliance and will not expose personal data to third countries"

Media
"Our core business is news, and part of our responsibility lies in safeguarding the privacy of our readers and sources. Sweden has the world’s toughest requirements for source confidentiality."

MedTech
"A critical part of the solution involves ensuring that patient data is managed and stored in a secure and compliant manner according to the strict rules and regulations typical for the healthcare sector"
Newsroom & press
Latest news

Press releases
Cleura launches new generation Compliant Cloud
March 17, 2025

Perspectives
Trump, the rule of law and the adequacy decision
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News
Let the US presidential election be the start of a digital readiness initiative in Sweden.
November 26, 2024

Press releases
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October 8, 2024

Guides
GDPR and the cloud – an introduction
September 19, 2024

Perspectives
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March 27, 2024

Perspectives
Comment on the Swedish Tax Agency’s memorandum on M365 and Teams
March 26, 2024

Perspectives
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March 18, 2024

Articles
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March 14, 2024

Press releases
Strong growth for Swedish cloud company Cleura
March 7, 2024

Reports
What your organisation needs to know about the third adequacy decision
February 29, 2024

Articles
Introducing our new range of Compute Instances: Tailored VM profiles for Diverse Computing Needs
December 12, 2023
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