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Aeris: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Aeris provides connectivity and management for IoT deployments, such as connected vehicles, machines and infrastructure. Its offering includes the IoT Accelerator platform for SIM and device management, billing and lifecycle operations, an eSIM orchestrator supporting the GSMA SGP.32 specification, IoT Watchtower for monitoring and security, and the Mobility Suite for connected vehicles. Aeris also offers fixed wireless access and wireless SASE. The services are delivered to business customers as a cloud platform.

The data controller is Aeris Communications, Inc., based in San Jose, California, in the United States. The company is therefore subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act. Ericsson holds a minority stake following the 2023 transfer of its IoT businesses. Where customer data is stored is not stated in the privacy policy or the data processing addendum, which refer to the Trust Center. The Global Data Processing Addendum names the customer as controller and Aeris as processor and refers to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK Addendum. The product is not open source.

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Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
    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 11, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
IoT & Embedded
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Aeris

The European alternatives to Aeris 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 Aeris

Aeris is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Aeris hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Aeris 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 Aeris 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 Aeris?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Aeris include 1NCE, Actility ThingPark and akenza. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Aeris?

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

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

Aeris is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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