ROSA manages your OpenShift cluster on AWS. Stakater Cloud adds GitOps, CI/CD, secrets, full observability, and multi-tenancy — hosted in the Netherlands, operated by a Red Hat Premier Partner.
ROSA is Red Hat's managed OpenShift offering running on AWS infrastructure. It handles the OpenShift control plane well — but data defaults to AWS, the platform tooling above OpenShift is not included, and you inherit AWS pricing variability and US jurisdiction concerns.
ROSA runs on AWS — a US company subject to the US CLOUD Act. Stakater Cloud is operated by Stakater AB (Sweden), with default EU deployment in Amsterdam for EU data residency, GDPR alignment, and low-latency European access.
ROSA gives you a managed OpenShift cluster. Stakater Cloud gives you a managed platform: ArgoCD, Tekton, OpenBao, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, multi-tenancy (MTO), Velero — pre-configured, managed by us, no platform team required.
ROSA combines EC2 costs, OpenShift licensing, and add-ons. Stakater Cloud is a flat monthly subscription from €888/month — one invoice, no per-resource charges, no AWS account to manage.
The real alternative isn't switching cloud providers — it's spending 12–18 months building this yourself with an internal platform team.
A real migration plan, run alongside your team. No two-week sales pitch dressed up as discovery.
We scope your existing ROSA setup — clusters, workloads, data volumes, integrations, compliance posture. Honest assessment of what moves cleanly and what needs care.
Your dedicated OpenShift cluster is provisioned in under 15 minutes, EU-hosted, with the full platform layer pre-wired — GitOps, CI/CD, observability, secrets, multi-tenancy.
Stakater SRE runs the migration alongside your team. Containerised workloads move first; data, integrations, and DNS cutover are scheduled around your risk tolerance.
ROSA runs on AWS infrastructure — a US company subject to the US CLOUD Act. While AWS has EU regions, data sovereignty concerns persist under GDPR, DORA and NIS2. Stakater Cloud is operated by Stakater AB (Sweden) with all data hosted in the Netherlands. No US parent company, no CLOUD Act exposure.
No. ROSA manages the OpenShift control plane. Everything above it you must install, configure, and maintain. Stakater Cloud's Managed KubeStack+ tier includes all of it pre-wired and managed from day one.
ROSA pricing is EC2 nodes plus OpenShift licensing plus any platform tooling. It scales unpredictably. Stakater Cloud is flat — from €888/month with no per-resource surprises.
ROSA cluster provisioning takes 30–45 minutes, plus weeks-to-months for platform tooling. Stakater Cloud is production-ready in under 15 minutes — cluster provisioned, GitOps wired, observability running.
Yes. We help teams move from ROSA and other managed OpenShift platforms. Book a call and we will assess workloads, data volumes, and compliance requirements.
Stakater Cloud Managed OpenShift carries a 99.9% uptime SLA on the cluster control plane, with a multi-AZ high-availability option for workloads that need stronger guarantees. SLA terms, credits, and incident-response commitments are documented in the contract.
Stakater Cloud is ISO 27001:2022 (information security) and ISO 9001:2015 (quality management) certified, audited annually by independent third parties. ROSA inherits AWS certifications for the underlying cloud, but ROSA itself is operated under AWS jurisdiction; Stakater Cloud is operated by a Swedish company under EU law.
Yes. Stakater Cloud includes Velero-based backup of cluster resources and persistent volumes as part of the managed platform, with documented restore procedures. ROSA leaves backup, disaster-recovery design, and operational ownership to the customer.
Book a 30-minute call. We'll show you exactly how Stakater Cloud stacks up against ROSA for your specific workload — no sales pitch, just an honest conversation.