EU sovereignCloud IaaSHeadquarters: AT

Alwyzon: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Alwyzon is the trading name of Hohl IT e.U., an Austrian sole trader, and offers virtual servers, storage servers and dedicated bare-metal servers. Virtual servers run on KVM virtualisation with AMD EPYC processors and SSD storage, storage servers use HDD arrays aimed at backup systems, and dedicated servers are single-tenant bare-metal machines. The servers are located in Vienna, Austria, which the company describes as a central location within Europe.

The legal notice names Michael Hohl as the owner and gives the business address Floridsdorfer Hauptstraße 1, 1210 Vienna, Austria. The privacy policy states that all data processing takes place exclusively on the provider's own servers inside the European Union and refers to the GDPR. The legal notice names no foreign parent company. The policy also names payment providers and a bot-protection service as third parties. It does not mention a data processing agreement, so customers who store personal data should request one before ordering.

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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

Headquarters	AT (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Cloud IaaS
Type	Product
Website	alwyzon.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Alwyzon

The European alternatives to Alwyzon 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 Alwyzon

Alwyzon is headquartered in AT 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 Alwyzon scores best on data residency.

Alwyzon 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 Alwyzon 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 Alwyzon?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to Alwyzon?

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

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

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

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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