Architecture

Exoscale DBaaS provisions dedicated virtual machines per service; no compute resources are shared across organizations, and the servers never appear in your public instance list — they live behind a managed endpoint that Exoscale operates for you. Each plan changes how many of those isolated nodes are launched (single-node for Hobbyist/Startup, multi-node clusters for Business/Premium).

Under the hood, a European control plane (powered by our partner Aiven) orchestrates day-to-day operations: creation, daily backups, automated fail-over, rolling upgrades, and health checks. Traffic between nodes and to the object storage is encrypted, and all data remains inside the zone-country you selected.

Because every service has dedicated VMs, you can resize, fork, or terminate it without affecting any other customer. After internal fail-over, the endpoint’s DNS name stays the same, so clients only need basic reconnect logic.

NOTE
Use the plan naming scheme (<tier>-<nodes>x?-<memory>) to know instantly how many dedicated nodes and RAM each deployment receives.