Questions CTOs ask about enum.

It depends on your workload. For teams in regulated DACH industries that want hyperscaler-grade Kubernetes, compute, and S3-compatible storage under German jurisdiction without CLOUD Act exposure, enum offers a self-service public cloud operated in Frankfurt by a German GmbH. enum is a platform product, not a consulting engagement.

German-HQ Kubernetes providers include enum (enum GmbH, Cologne, operating in Frankfurt), STACKIT (Schwarz Group), Hetzner, and IONOS. enum is the independent public cloud with its own RIPE-registered network (AS215998) and CNCF Silver membership.

Yes. enum is a German GmbH operating in a Frankfurt Tier III+ data center under German and EU law, with no US subprocessors and no transatlantic data flows. That structure aligns with NIS2 supply-chain requirements and DORA ICT third-party risk rules. NIS2 and DORA readiness is a structural property of where the company and data sit, not a separate certification.

Yes. enum object storage implements the S3 API, so aws-cli, rclone, s3cmd, the AWS SDKs, and any tool built for S3 work without code changes. Data is erasure-coded across failure domains and stored in Frankfurt. enum bills storage and outgoing traffic, with no per-request or retrieval fees.

Yes. enum runs upstream, unmodified Kubernetes, so standard manifests, Helm charts, and GitOps pipelines port over without code changes. enum object storage is S3-API compatible, so rclone, aws-cli, and S3 SDKs work as-is. Migration support is available if you need help with the cutover.

enum exposes the platform through a self-service CLI (enumctl), a REST API, and Terraform. You can provision clusters, storage, and networking as code with sensible defaults, so infrastructure is reproducible and version-controlled.

enum Kubernetes Engine includes a highly available control plane per cluster across independent failure domains, with automatic failover and zero-downtime upgrades, backed by a 99.9% availability SLA. The HA control plane is included at no per-cluster-hour charge.

Yes. enum is a German GmbH operating under German and EU law with no US parent and no US subprocessors, which aligns with the jurisdictional expectations of FinTech regulation and DORA. Teams run payment, banking-adjacent, and trading-platform workloads on enum Kubernetes Engine in Frankfurt.

Yes. enum operates in Frankfurt under German and EU law, which covers GDPR and German patient-data requirements. The HA control plane, private-by-default clusters, and EU-only data flows fit HealthTech workloads that cannot tolerate US jurisdiction or transatlantic data transfers.

Colocation gives you a rack and power; you bring and operate the hardware, the network, the hypervisor, and Kubernetes. enum is a public cloud: it operates the infrastructure, the network (AS215998), the storage, and the Kubernetes control plane, and exposes them through a self-service API. You run workloads, not hardware.

enum is operated by enum GmbH, registered in Cologne (HRB 121362, VAT DE451942405), founded on 15 November 2024. All infrastructure runs in a Tier III+ data center in Frankfurt, Germany. The company is a CNCF Silver Member, a Linux Foundation member, and a RIPE NCC member operating its own Autonomous System (AS215998).

No. enum GmbH is a German company with no US entity in its corporate structure, so it is not subject to the US CLOUD Act or FISA Section 702. Selecting an EU region at a US-headquartered provider does not remove that exposure, because the corporate jurisdiction of the company holding the data is what counts.

Compute is billed per hour with optional one to three year commitment discounts. Block storage is billed per GB per month. The HA control plane is included at no per-cluster-hour charge, host-based NAT is included, and load balancing is a flat monthly fee with an IPv4 address included. All prices are in euros and exclude VAT.

enum runs upstream, unmodified Kubernetes with no fork, so existing manifests, Helm charts, and GitOps pipelines work without changes. Best-practice tooling is included and kept up to date, with zero-downtime rolling upgrades when new versions are available.

enum operates its primary region in Frankfurt, Germany, in a Tier III+ data center, with further European regions on the roadmap. All regions run on enum's own infrastructure and own network (AS215998), inside the European Union.