Non-EU vendorData Integration & ETLHeadquarters: US

AWS Glue: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service from Amazon Web Services for discovering, preparing, moving and combining data for analytics, machine learning and application development. It provides a central Data Catalog with crawlers that infer schemas, visual and code-based authoring of ETL and ELT jobs on Apache Spark, streaming data processing, job scheduling and workflows, and features for data quality and sensitive-data detection. You work through the console, API or CLI; AWS manages the infrastructure.

AWS Glue is operated by Amazon Web Services, a US company, and exists only as a managed service, not as software you can host yourself. Its ETL jobs do use open-source Apache Spark. The service is available in many AWS regions, including several in the EU such as Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris, Milan, Spain and Stockholm, as well as US and Asia Pacific regions. Choosing an EU region determines where the service runs, but as a US provider AWS remains subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act. European organisations should weigh this.

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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, APAC)
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 6, 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, APACVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Data Integration & ETL
Type	Product
Website	aws.amazon.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to AWS Glue

The European alternatives to AWS Glue 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

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Why digital sovereignty matters with AWS Glue

AWS Glue 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 Glue hosts data in US, EU, APAC. 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 Glue 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 Glue 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 Glue?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to AWS Glue include Adverity, Axual and CloverDX. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to AWS Glue?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to AWS Glue include dlt (dltHub) and HiveMQ. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

AWS Glue is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, EU, APAC. 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.

aws.amazon.com/glue/

Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Data Integration & ETL

Data Integration & ETL: Data integration, ETL pipelines, data preparation and data quality 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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