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We heard you, introducing zero-cost and unlimited egress
Businesses troubled with unpredictable & high egress costs leads to us completely removing Internet transfer costs. “Egress fees have been the last headache and source of uncertainty for customers transitioning to the cloud. Now, they are a thing of the past.” UpCloud founder & CTO Joel Pihlajamaa HELSINKI, Finland – April 1, 2024 – In […]
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Mitigating the Leaky Vessels Container Escape vulnerabilities
On January 31st 2024, the Snyk Security Labs team identified multiple vulnerabilities, now called “Leaky Vessels”, affecting software components used on Kubernetes infrastructure to run and manage containers. Our users’ security is our top priority, and we take this matter very seriously. These vulnerabilities can be used for container escapes – to gain access to […]
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Developing solutions for modern audiences – Launching UpCloud Managed Kubernetes
The use of Kubernetes is growing year after year, and the system is now the go-to tool for container orchestration. We’re proud to launch UpCloud Managed Kubernetes, to help businesses enjoy all the benefits of using Kubernetes without any of the headaches of maintaining it. Every year, more and more businesses are adopting Kubernetes – […]
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UpCloud joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation
In the past year, we have been working on many products and services like Managed Load Balancer, Hot Resizing, and Managed Redis Databases, that help customers to be more productive in their core business. Simplifying cloud infrastructure setup and management has been a large part of our development plans, not the least of which, Managed […]
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Building better user experience – Launching Managed Databases for Redis
Long response times or slow login experience in your webshop or application can drastically reduce sales. And as many would agree from personal experience, If the content is not delivered in a timely manner users will go elsewhere. To help improve your application performance in one go, we’ve been developing little something. Today I am […]
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New modern operating systems with improved security out of the box
Password strength has always been a concern for all internet-connected systems. Doubly so for any cloud servers with open service ports. If you’ve ever had a look at your Syslogs after deployment, many servers are immediately subjected to brute-force attacks straight from creation. For the longest time, the best advice has been to disable password […]
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Announcing new Cloud Server plans, improvements and pricing adjustments
Streamlining currency changes for customers Starting from January 1st 2023, we are changing our pricing currency from US Dollars (USD) to Euros (EUR) to bring our customers more benefits and reduce uncertainty. The majority of our current customers use Euro as a payment currency. We decided to make this change to bring three vital advantages […]
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Introducing Managed Load Balancer to simplify the complexities of resilience
Load balancing is a true and tested method of building resilience and improving system throughput. However, it might not be quite that easy to implement or maintain for everyone, until now. To help anyone create a state-of-art frontend for their cloud services, we are excited to unveil a new carefree way to build resilience. Today we […]
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Our year in retrospect: UpCloud’s 2021 highlights
The past year kept us busy developing new features, forming exciting partnerships, and welcoming new talent to our continuously growing team at UpCloud. Luckily, even in the middle of the globally rocky circumstances, we were able to launch multiple services and therefore make things a bit simpler for our users, who, just like us, are […]
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