How Thalassa Realised a Full European Cloud Platform in Just 6 Months

2025-08-05
Jeroen Veldhorst
3 min read

While European cloud legislation evolves rapidly, Thalassa Cloud proves that technological innovation doesn’t need to take years. In just six months, we have built a fully functional cloud platform that competes with American hyperscalers on multiple fronts, and even exceeds them in transparency, control, and sovereignty.

From Vision to Reality: A Complete Cloud Platform

Since inception, we’ve delivered a versatile cloud platform offering IaaS, PaaS, KaaS, and DBaaS. Our technology is available for public and private clouds, as well as turnkey and white-label solutions for partners.

This ensures European businesses can access advanced cloud services tailored to their needs, whether opting for public, private, or partner-based deployments, all with consistent enterprise-grade features and performance.

Developer-First Approach for Modern Teams

Our growth stems from prioritising developer experience. We offer a CLI, Terraform provider, Kubernetes dashboard, IAM/RBAC, audit logging, and a FinOps cost dashboard, all API-driven for production use.

  • The CLI and Terraform provider facilitate seamless automation and Infrastructure as Code.
  • The Kubernetes dashboard offers intuitive management and monitoring.
  • IAM/RBAC ensures secure access control.
  • Audit logging provides operational visibility.
  • The FinOps dashboard aids in cost management.

This approach integrates smoothly into existing workflows, meeting European security and compliance standards, and enhancing developer productivity with robust security and reliability.

Innovation Speed: Rapid and Purposeful

Our six-month development timeline proves that European cloud providers can innovate at the same pace as hyperscalers, without compromising on sovereignty, security, or transparency.

We launch new services every month. For Q3, we’re planning AI support, Object Storage, dual-stack IPv6, and key management. Simultaneously, we’re actively working on ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certifications.

Object Storage, launching this month, will deliver S3-compatible storage with full European sovereignty, allowing organisations to store and manage large datasets while maintaining compliance with European regulations.

Through our Key Management services, we will offer enterprise-grade capabilities to strengthen encryption and enforce security practices.

Our pursuit of ISO 27001 and SOC 2 demonstrates our commitment to the highest security and compliance standards. These certifications provide independent validation of our platform’s security controls and processes, giving European businesses the confidence they need.

This rapid innovation cycle shows that European cloud providers can offer monthly releases with the latest features and improvements, while reducing reliance on foreign cloud infrastructure and regaining control over critical digital services.

The European Cloud Advantage

Our rapid development shows that European cloud providers can match hyperscalers technologically, while offering unique benefits aligned with European values and regulations.

Designed in accordance with European legislation such as GDPR and NIS2, we ensure data sovereignty and regulatory compliance without legal complexity. Our compliance-first approach enables organisations to focus on their core objectives, without navigating compliance hurdles.

Conclusion

Building a complete cloud platform in just six months proves that European cloud innovation can match hyperscalers in pace and quality. By prioritising developer experience, sovereignty, and rapid delivery, we’ve built a platform that meets the real needs of European businesses.

Our success shows that European cloud providers can deliver the advanced capabilities modern teams expect while retaining the transparency, control, and compliance required in today’s regulated digital world.

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