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acens: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

acens is a Spanish provider of cloud, hosting and managed infrastructure services. Its cloud range includes cloud servers, private, hybrid and managed cloud, object storage, cloud backup and disaster recovery as a service. It also offers shared and dedicated hosting, colocation, domain and email services, and Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace administration. The company also resells Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud services to its customers.

The operator is Telefónica Soluciones de Informática y Comunicaciones de España S.A.U., a Spanish company registered in the Madrid Commercial Registry, with its address at Ronda de la Comunicación in Madrid. The company presents itself as part of the Telefónica group. It states that it operates its own data centres of about 6,000 square metres in Barcelona and Madrid, both in Spain. Services resold from hyperscale providers such as Azure and Google Cloud remain subject to those providers' own terms.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 10, 2026
HeadquartersES (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryCloud IaaS
TypeProduct
Websiteacens.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to acens

The European alternatives to acens come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with acens

acens is headquartered in ES and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so acens scores best on data residency.

acens is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs acens together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to acens?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to acens include 1984 Hosting, Aiven and Alwyzon. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to acens?

Our list of EU alternatives to acens is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is acens GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

acens is headquartered in ES (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes acens an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 10, 2026.

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Compliance evidence

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