Autonomous system
AS61098 EXOSCALE
Hosting RIPE
Summary
Exoscale
cloud hosting business
EXOSCALE is operated by Akenes SA, the legal entity behind the Exoscale cloud platform.
What it's used for
- The address space carries cloud infrastructure endpoints, evidenced by netnames such as
CH-EXOSCALE-960214andAkenes-SAregistered to Akenes SA. - The AS announces 37,632 IPv4 addresses across 22 prefixes and 56 IPv6 prefixes, while maintaining 129 observed neighbours; this ratio indicates a hosting and cloud service provider rather than a transit carrier.
- Traffic from this AS consists of public cloud instances, API endpoints, and virtual private servers hosted in Swiss data centers.
Notable
- All registrant data in the pack lists Akenes SA as the holder, consistent with the AS handle
EXOSCALE. - Exoscale is a trademark of Akenes SA, a private company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Switzerland.
- The inventory includes a mix of /19, /20, /21, and /22 IPv4 blocks, alongside a substantial IPv6 allocation including /32 and /31 prefixes.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 7 exchanges in 4 countries, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| DE-CIX Frankfurt | Frankfurt, Germany | 80.81.195.174 |
| SwissIX | Zurich, Switzerland | 91.206.53.51 |
| DE-CIX Munich | Munich, Germany | 185.1.208.123 |
| Vienna Internet Exchange | Vienna, Austria | 193.203.0.89 |
| CERN IXP / Equinix Internet Exchange Geneva | Geneva, Switzerland | 192.65.185.229 |
| Croatian Internet Exchange | Zagreb, Croatia | 185.1.87.142 |
| Equinix Internet Exchange Zurich | Zurich, Switzerland | 194.42.48.43 |
Transit providers
25 upstream, 0 downstream and 41 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-14, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 23 prefixes · 38.66K addresses IPv6 58 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CH | Switzerland | 81 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS61098- Registry name
- exoscale
- Registrant
- Exoscale-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse@exoscale.ch
- Registered
- 2013-02-18
- Last changed
- 2026-09-28
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 67 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 92 authorising AS61098
- ASPA
- 9 declared providers
- IRR
- 100% registered · 67 of 67 announcements
- Route objects
- 111 naming AS61098
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 442 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere