Self-hosted / open sourceVirtualisation & ContainersHeadquarters: SG

Arcfra: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Arcfra is an enterprise cloud platform that combines virtualisation, Kubernetes, storage, networking, security and operations, so that organisations can run virtual machines, containers and AI workloads on infrastructure they control. Its main product is the Arcfra Enterprise Cloud Platform (AECP), a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software platform. Related offerings include Arcfra Block Storage and Neutree for AI infrastructure operations. Arcfra positions the platform as a VMware alternative and for disaster recovery, virtual desktops and edge deployments.

Arcfra is headquartered in Singapore. It took over the business and product IP of SmartX outside China in 2024, focuses mainly on Asia-Pacific and has said it is expanding into Europe and America. The vendor describes the platform for use on infrastructure the customer controls rather than as a hosted cloud service, so the location of data follows the customer's own deployment. For a European organisation the supplier is a non-EU company, which is relevant for contracts, support and applicable jurisdiction.

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Sovereignty score

65 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (SG)
Data residency SOV-3100
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, OTHER)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-380
Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

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	SG (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	No — no adequacy decisionVerified by hand
Data hosting	Self-hosted, e.g. in EU, OTHER (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Virtualisation & Containers
Type	Product
Website	arcfra.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Arcfra

The European alternatives to Arcfra 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 Arcfra

Arcfra is headquartered in SG, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Arcfra runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

Arcfra is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Arcfra 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 Arcfra?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Arcfra include APPUiO (VSHN), Gardener and Giant Swarm. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Arcfra?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Arcfra include Gardener, Giant Swarm, Harvester, IncludeOS, K3s, Kamaji and Kubermatic. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Arcfra is headquartered in SG (OTHER) and hosts data in EU, OTHER. 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

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

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Compliance evidence

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

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