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Azion: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Azion is an edge platform on which developers and security teams run applications closer to end users. The portfolio covers serverless functions, a rules engine, load balancing and image processing, AI inference and an AI gateway, object storage, a SQL database and key-value storage, plus security services such as a web application firewall, API gateway, bot management and DNS. Azion is consumed as a cloud platform, and the vendor cites more than a hundred data centres worldwide.

The company originates in Brazil, where it was founded in 2011, and therefore sits outside European jurisdiction. Azion does not publish in which countries or regions customer data is stored; its privacy policy states that data may be processed on servers outside Brazil, with standard contractual clauses and encryption as safeguards. According to its compliance page, its controls are aligned with the GDPR and Brazil's LGPD, and it reports annually on SOC 2 Type 2 and PCI DSS. For a European organisation it is sensible to agree contractually in advance where data is processed and which sub-processors are used.

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Sovereignty score

32 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (BR)
Data residency SOV-30
No hosting in Europe (OTHER)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
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-630
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	BR (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Yes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	CDN, DNS & Domains
Type	Product
Website	azion.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Azion

The European alternatives to Azion 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 Azion

Azion is headquartered in BR, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

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

Azion 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 Azion 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 Azion?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Azion include Bunny.net, ClouDNS and deSEC. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Azion?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Azion include deSEC, Knot DNS and Knot Resolver. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Azion is headquartered in BR (OTHER) and hosts data in 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

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Compliance evidence

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