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Aruba Cloud: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Aruba Cloud is the cloud and infrastructure offering of the Italian company Aruba S.p.A. It covers bare-metal servers and VPS, a public cloud based on OpenStack with cloud servers, virtual data centres and managed Kubernetes, plus storage, backup and database as a service. Aruba also provides VMware environments, private and hybrid cloud, GPU capacity for AI, and services for migration and sovereign cloud. The services are consumed as IaaS, PaaS and managed services through a customer portal.

Aruba S.p.A. is headquartered in Ponte San Pietro, Italy, and is a joint-stock company. It operates seven proprietary data centres: in Arezzo, near Bergamo, in Rome and in the Czech Republic. For cloud delivery and disaster recovery Aruba also uses partner data centres in places including Frankfurt, Paris, Warsaw and London. The software is not open source. For a European organisation this means a supplier headquartered in the EU with mainly its own infrastructure in Italy; check which location is selected for your service.

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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 1, 2026
HeadquartersIT (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalARUBA-ASN - Aruba S.p.A., IT (IT)Technically measured
CategoryCloud IaaS
TypeProduct
Websitearubacloud.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 Aruba Cloud

The European alternatives to Aruba Cloud 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 Aruba Cloud

Aruba Cloud is headquartered in IT 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 Aruba Cloud scores best on data residency.

Aruba Cloud 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 Aruba Cloud 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 Aruba Cloud?

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

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

Is Aruba Cloud GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Aruba Cloud is headquartered in IT (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Aruba Cloud 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 1, 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)
arubacloud.com/privacy

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

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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