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Acronis: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Acronis supplies cyber protection software that combines backup, disaster recovery, protection against malware and ransomware, and endpoint management in one platform. Acronis Cyber Protect is aimed at businesses, from small organisations to large enterprises, and Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud at service providers. Backups can be written to Acronis Cloud, local or network storage, or S3-compatible public cloud storage. Management can be done from the cloud, fully on-premises or in a hybrid setup, including for air-gapped environments.

Acronis is headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and was founded in Singapore in 2003. According to Wikipedia, the Swedish investment firm EQT acquired a majority stake in 2025. Switzerland is not an EU member state but is an EFTA country. In 2016 Acronis announced storage locations in Zurich, Frankfurt and Strasbourg, alongside London; the current list is on Acronis's website. With fully local storage, backup data stays within your own environment; with Acronis Cloud, the chosen data centre determines where it is stored.

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Sovereignty score
59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, CH, US, OTHER)
  • 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-645
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

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

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Facts and evidence

Last checked October 9, 2026
HeadquartersCH (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent companySEVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEU, CH, US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryStorage & Backup
TypeProduct
Websiteacronis.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Acronis

The European alternatives to Acronis come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 Acronis

Acronis is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act. The ultimate owner is based in SE, also within Europe.

Acronis hosts data in EU, CH, US, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Acronis 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 Acronis 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 Acronis?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Acronis include Atempo, Bacula Systems and Bareos. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Acronis?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Acronis include Bacula Systems, Bareos and BorgBackup. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Acronis is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in EU, CH, US, OTHER. That makes Acronis 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 9, 2026.

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Storage & Backup

Storage & Backup: Business storage, backup solutions, object storage and data recovery. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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