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AWS App Runner: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

AWS App Runner is a managed service from Amazon Web Services for building, deploying and scaling web applications and APIs from source code or a container image. It handles deployment automatically, load balances incoming traffic with encryption, scales capacity with demand, and can communicate with other AWS applications inside a private Amazon VPC. It is a PaaS offering that runs only inside the AWS cloud.

AWS states that App Runner has not accepted new customers since 30 April 2026. Existing services remain operational but no new features are planned; for new container deployments AWS points to Amazon ECS Express Mode. AWS is a subsidiary of the US company Amazon.com, Inc. According to AWS documentation, App Runner is available in regions in the US, Asia-Pacific and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris and London), so a European region can be chosen. AWS offers a data processing addendum with standard contractual clauses. As a US company, AWS remains subject to US jurisdiction, including for data held in European regions.

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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 (US, EU, 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 11, 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, EU, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Cloud PaaS
Type	Product
Website	aws.amazon.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to AWS App Runner

The European alternatives to AWS App Runner 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

31 European Cloud PaaS vendors are in the catalogue. View the whole category · Submit an alternative · View category on the map

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Why digital sovereignty matters with AWS App Runner

AWS App Runner 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.

AWS App Runner hosts data in US, EU, OTHER. 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.

AWS App Runner 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 AWS App Runner 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 AWS App Runner?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to AWS App Runner include alwaysdata, amazee.io and anynines (a9s). On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to AWS App Runner?

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

Is AWS App Runner GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

AWS App Runner is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, 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

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Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Cloud PaaS

Cloud PaaS: Platform as a Service — managed runtimes, container orchestration, serverless. 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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