Swirl.SWIRL CLOUD
Four ways to run your company’s IT. Compared on facts.
A hyperscaler, a Kubernetes distribution you assemble, a stack of SaaS subscriptions, or Swirl Cloud. Each criterion describes how the option works, not a promise: choose the one that fits your company.
Side by side
| Criterion | Swirl Cloud | Hyperscaler | Do-it-yourself Kubernetes distribution | Separate SaaS subscriptions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | On your servers, rented or on your premises | In the provider’s data centers, in the regions it offers | On your servers | On each vendor’s infrastructure |
| Billing | The fixed monthly price of your servers, plus the support you choose | By usage: compute, storage, traffic and managed services | The servers’ price, plus your team’s time | Per user or per plan, with each vendor |
| What is included | Delivery, single sign-on, databases, monitoring, security, ERP and compliance evidence, installed together | Building blocks to select, configure and connect | A cluster; delivery, identity, monitoring and backups are yours to add | One function per subscription |
| Who operates it | Your team, with the setup hub and a runbook per alert, or Swirl, on servers hosted in the EU | The provider for the infrastructure, you for your configuration | Your platform team | Each vendor |
| Compliance evidence | Controls mapped to NIS2, ISO/IEC 27001, DORA and GDPR, evaluated continuously on your installation | The provider’s certifications for its scope; evidence for your configuration is yours to gather | Yours to build | Each vendor’s reports, gathered one by one |
| Jurisdiction | That of the host and country you choose | The provider’s; a US provider remains subject to US law, such as the CLOUD Act | That of the host you choose | Each vendor’s |
| Leaving | Standard formats: Git, OCI images, PostgreSQL and MongoDB dumps; exit procedure on the roadmap | Managed services have their own APIs; leaving means rewriting those integrations | Standard components that you control | One export per vendor, in the format it offers |
When to choose which
Hyperscaler
For regions worldwide, capacity that swings sharply from hour to hour, or a managed service that Swirl Cloud does not include.
Do-it-yourself Kubernetes distribution
If you have a platform team and needs that hand-picked components serve better.
Separate SaaS subscriptions
For one specific tool, used right away, with nothing to host.
Swirl Cloud
To host your applications and company tools yourself, at a fixed cost, with the evidence your auditors and customers ask for.