EU sovereignCloud IaaSHeadquarters: AT

Anexia: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Anexia is an Austrian provider of cloud solutions and digital engineering. It offers managed hosting and virtual data centres with virtual servers, firewalls, load balancers and scalable storage, plus a hybrid cloud option and its own cloud management platform, Anexia Engine. It also develops custom web, mobile and desktop software. The services are consumed as managed services and are aimed at sectors such as the public sector, finance, healthcare and manufacturing.

Anexia is headquartered in Klagenfurt, Austria, with offices in Vienna, Graz, Karlsruhe and New York, and describes itself as an independent Austrian technology company. According to the company, its network spans more than one hundred data centre locations in seventy countries, so the hosting location is something you should fix contractually in advance. Anexia lists certifications including ISO 27001, ISO 27701 and CSA STAR. The software is not open source. For a European organisation this means an EU-based supplier under European jurisdiction; specify the required EU locations and the operating model in writing.

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Sovereignty score

59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, 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

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 9, 2026

Headquarters	AT (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	3 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AS-ANEXIA - Anexia Cloud Solutions GmbH, AT (AT)Technically measured
Category	Cloud IaaS
Type	Product
Website	anexia.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 Anexia

The European alternatives to Anexia 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 Anexia

Anexia 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.

Anexia hosts data in EU, 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.

Anexia 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 Anexia 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 Anexia?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Anexia 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 Anexia?

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

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

Anexia is headquartered in AT (EU) and hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. That makes Anexia 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.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA): anexia.com/en/company/about-anexia/data-protection-gdpr
Security page / trust center: anexia.com/en/hosting-it-solutions/virtual-data-center/security
EU hosting documented: anexia.com/en/hosting-it-solutions/infrastructure

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

ISO/IEC 27001Vendor-statedISO/IEC 27701Vendor-statedCSA STARConfirmed in registry

Links checked on September 22, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Cloud IaaS

Cloud IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service — virtual machines, storage, networking. 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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