Certification
SCS provides a certification framework with various scopes. See Scopes and Versions for details.
Becoming certified
In order to obtain a certification, all standards of the respective scope must be adhered to. This is tested at regular intervals, and the results of these tests will be made available publicly. There are various types of certifications, which are described below.
Certification of infrastructure
Cloud service providers can obtain a certification for their infrastructure offerings.
The standard SCS-0004 describes the certification of infrastructure offerings in depth.
Certification of integrators
Implementation partners and cloud service providers can obtain a certification recognizing their technical knowledge and experience to provide technical support to other organizations using SCS.
The standard SCS-0007 describes the integrator certification in depth.
Compliant cloud environments
This is a list of clouds that we test on a nightly basis against the certificate scope SCS-compatible IaaS.
This table shows the most recent verified results.
Version numbers are suffixed by a symbol depending on state: * for draft, † for warn (soon to be deprecated), and †† for deprecated.
| Name | Description | Operator | SCS-compatible IaaS | HealthMon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| scs2 | Dev/Test/Demo environment (2nd gen) provided for SCS & GAIA-X context | plusserver GmbH | ✅ v5.1 | HM |
| aov.cloud | Community cloud for customers | aov IT.Services GmbH | ✅ v5.1 | HM |
| CC@RRZE | Private Compute Cloud (CC) for FAU | Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen | ✅ v5.1 | (soon) |
| CNDS | Public cloud for customers (2 regions) | artcodix GmbH | 🟧 v4††, v3†† | HM |
| FOCIS | ALASCA community environment for FOCIS | Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH | ✅ v5.1 | n/a |
| pluscloud open | Public cloud for customers (4 regions) | plusserver GmbH | 🛑 – | HM1 HM2 HM3 HM4 |
| REGIO.cloud | Public cloud for customers | OSISM GmbH | ✅ v5.1 | HM |
| ScaleUp Open Cloud | Public cloud for customers | ScaleUp Technologies GmbH & Co. KG | ✅ v5.1 | HM |
| syseleven | Public OpenStack Cloud (2 SCS regions) | SysEleven GmbH | 🛑 – | (soon) |
| Wavestack | Public cloud for customers | noris network AG/Wavecon GmbH | ✅ v5.1 | HM |