Non-EU vendorProcess Mining & RPAHeadquarters: US

Automation Anywhere: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Automation Anywhere provides an agentic automation platform that combines RPA bots, AI agents, document automation and process discovery. The Mozart Orchestrator coordinates AI agents, deterministic automations and people. The offering includes AI Agent Studio, Automator AI, Document Automation and Process Discovery, plus pre-built solutions for sectors such as banking and healthcare and for IT service desks, and AI governance features. The platform is delivered as a cloud service; a free Cloud Community Edition is also offered.

Automation Anywhere was founded in 2003 as Tethys Solutions and is headquartered in San Jose, California. The company is privately held and has been funded by investors including General Atlantic, Goldman Sachs, NEA, SoftBank Investment Advisers and Workday Ventures. As a US company, it is subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act. The company's status page lists Automation 360 cloud regions in the United States and in Europe (Europe 1 and Europe 2), among others. Organisations should have the region of their tenant confirmed in writing. The software is proprietary.

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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 1, 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	EU, USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL (US)Technically measured
Category	Process Mining & RPA
Type	Product
Website	automationanywhere.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 Automation Anywhere

The European alternatives to Automation Anywhere come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 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 Automation Anywhere

Automation Anywhere 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.

Automation Anywhere 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.

Automation Anywhere 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 Automation Anywhere 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 Automation Anywhere?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Automation Anywhere include n8n, Make.com and Robot Framework. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Automation Anywhere?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Automation Anywhere include Robot Framework and bupaR. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Automation Anywhere GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Automation Anywhere 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

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".

CSA STARConfirmed in registry

Digital sovereignty in Process Mining & RPA

Process Mining & RPA: Process analysis on system logs, process improvement and robotic process automation of administrative tasks. 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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