Cloud18
The Open European DBaaS Solution
Managed MariaDB & MySQL with high availability, security and expert support — hosted with trusted European partners.
New to Cloud18? Start with Getting started. Want the underlying orchestration engine? See Replication Manager.
What is Cloud18?
You are container-ready and looking for a powerful and cost-effective managed MariaDB & MySQL databases? Cloud18 is the answer.
Cloud18 combines high availability, enhanced security, and expert support, with transparent pricing designed for operational predictability.
With Cloud18, your data is hosted by trusted European partners (including BSO, OVH, RAPID.SPACE, and RDEM-SYSTEM) on reliable infrastructure aligned with European data protection requirements.
Why choose Cloud18?
- High Availability: Keep applications running with production-grade HA.
- Secure storage: Data protection aligned with best practices.
- Active support: Expert DBAs and system engineers.
- Predictable cost model: a fixed price per unit at each partner, for budget control.
- European solution: Keep data within Europe.
- Under your control: Web-based monitoring, backups, maintenance.
- Bring code to storage: Deploy docker applications with git integration.
- On-demand integration: Request open-source applications while GUI automation expands.
- Predictable performance: Dedicated resources via Linux kernel virtualization / cgroups.
Related pages
- Explore use cases in Solutions
- Learn about the core engine: Replication Manager
- Browse all Products
European partners
Cloud18 runs on trusted European infrastructure partners.
Current capacity snapshot
| Cores | Memory (TB) | NVMe RAID10 (TB) |
|---|---|---|
| 964 | 34 | 608 |
Pricing per unit
You pay for what your clusters use, counted in units, at the price of the partner that hosts them. Every partner uses the same units, so offers compare one to one.
| Unit | What one unit holds |
|---|---|
| DBU, database unit | 1 core, 4 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe, 1000 IOPS |
| APU, application unit | 1 core, 2 GB RAM, 10 GB NVMe, for proxies and Docker applications |
| BKU, backup unit | 20 GB of backups kept on the cluster |
| BAU, archive unit | 20 GB of backups archived on the partner's S3 storage |
Partners (EUR / month / unit)
| Partner | DBU | APU | BKU | BAU | Data centers | Reallocation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Signal18 – BSO | 16 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Migration |
| Signal18 – RapidSpace | 14 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | Hot |
| Signal18 – Rdem | 30 | 30 | 21 | 2 | 3 | Hot |
| Signal18 – OVH | 36 | 20 | 26 | 2 | 2 | Migration |
| Sagacita – OVH | 36 | 20 | 11 | 2 | 2 | Migration |
| Sagacita – Rdem | 30 | 30 | on request | 2 | 3 | Hot |
A database starts at 1 DBU per node and scales by whole units, up to 9 replicas, 1 TB RAM, 8 TB NVMe and 128 cores on request. Archiving to your own S3 storage is never billed.
Compared with (EUR / month for the resources of 1 DBU)
| Managed offer | Price | Data centers |
|---|---|---|
| OVH | 220 | 2 |
| Clever Cloud | 100 | 1 |
Getting started (fast path)
1) Create your Cloud18 account
Register a Cloud18 user and join the community chat:
- Create account: your free Cloud18 account
- Community chat: Community Chat
2) Choose your onboarding path
Pick the path that matches your environment:
- 2.a Download replication-manager-osc to orchestrate local MariaDB/MySQL/Proxies, register your instance with a Cloud18 account and browse the marketplace in “cluster for sales”.
- 2.b Sign in with your Cloud18 account to an existing public infrastructure partner.
Need help deciding?
Create a cluster
- Create your free Cloud18 account.
- Compare the partner offers in the marketplace: in Clusters for sale of your replication-manager, or on a partner console you sign in to with your Cloud18 account (the consoles are listed in your Members area).
- Choose the size and create the cluster: it is billed per unit at the partner's price.
Need a managed migration?
If you want help migrating from an existing MariaDB/MySQL environment or designing an HA architecture: