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Avydos: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Avydos is a self-service platform for simulating distributed denial-of-service attacks against your own systems. Security engineers use it to run controlled stress tests on infrastructure and applications, covering network-layer (Layer 3/4) and application-layer (Layer 7) vectors as well as single- and multi-vector scenarios. Tests can run continuously, with automated reports, real-time dashboards and a DDoS Resiliency Score (DRS) to measure how well defences hold up. According to the vendor, the platform is cloud-based, available around the clock and can be provisioned in a standard or an individual setup. zeroBS also offers training, custom tests, red teaming and compliance reports, for example for DORA and TISAX.

Avydos is developed by zeroBS GmbH, based in Kiel, Germany and, according to its website, founded in 2017; its imprint names no parent company. The product pages do not state where the platform or its test and report data are hosted, so a European organisation should ask about hosting location and data handling before use. Nothing is said about open-source licensing or a self-hosted option.

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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 14, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Cybersecurity
Type
Product
Website
avydos.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Avydos

The European alternatives to Avydos come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 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 Avydos

Avydos is headquartered in DE 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 Avydos scores best on data residency.

Avydos 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 Avydos 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 Avydos?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Avydos include Actalis, Advenica and Aikido Security. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Avydos?

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

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

Avydos is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Avydos 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 14, 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".

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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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Digital sovereignty in Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity: Threat detection, endpoint protection, SIEM, vulnerability management. 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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