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Aptible: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Aptible is a platform-as-a-service company based in San Francisco. Its platform runs production applications, databases and AI workloads on isolated AWS infrastructure, with networking, identity and encryption configured automatically. Teams manage deployments through a dashboard, a command-line tool or Terraform. According to the vendor, it is aimed mainly at digital health teams, is HITRUST R2 certified and enforces HIPAA controls by default in dedicated environments.

The contracting entity under its data processing addendum is Aptible, Inc. For dedicated environments, customers choose the AWS region, and the addendum names Dublin, Frankfurt and London as examples. Personal data is not transferred outside the selected region except for listed purposes such as support. Transfers to the United States rely on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and standard contractual clauses. As a US company, the provider is subject to US jurisdiction. A European organisation can keep stored data in EU regions, but should weigh that choice against this jurisdiction and against support access.

Sovereignty score
27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, 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
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEU, USVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryCloud PaaS
TypeProduct
Websiteaptible.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Aptible

The European alternatives to Aptible 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 Aptible

Aptible 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.

Aptible hosts data in EU, US. 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.

Aptible 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 Aptible 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 Aptible?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Aptible include alwaysdata, amazee.io and anynines (a9s). On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Aptible?

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

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

Aptible is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU, 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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