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Atlantic.Net: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Atlantic.Net is a hosting provider offering cloud VPS, dedicated and bare-metal servers, colocation, private cloud, GPU hosting, backup and disaster recovery. It targets healthcare organisations among others and, according to its website, is HIPAA and HITECH audited, with a Business Associate Agreement available on every plan. Managed services such as firewalls, multi-factor authentication, server management and migrations are also offered. The infrastructure is delivered as a hosted service from the company's data centres.

Atlantic.Net was founded in 1994 in Gainesville and is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, in the United States. No foreign parent company has been identified. Its data centres are in New York, Ashburn, Orlando, Dallas, San Francisco, Toronto, London and Singapore; Amsterdam is listed as coming soon, so there is currently no region within the EU. London is outside the EU. The privacy policy refers to compliance with the EU-US and Swiss-US Data Privacy Frameworks. As a US company it may be subject to US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

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Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US, OTHER)
  • 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 13, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Cloud IaaS
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Atlantic.Net

The European alternatives to Atlantic.Net come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 Atlantic.Net

Atlantic.Net 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.

Atlantic.Net hosts data outside the EU (US, OTHER). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Atlantic.Net 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 Atlantic.Net 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 Atlantic.Net?

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

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

Is Atlantic.Net GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Atlantic.Net is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, 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

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Compliance evidence

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