EU sovereignCloud IaaSHeadquarters: SE

Bahnhof: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Bahnhof is a Swedish internet service provider, founded in 1994, that also offers cloud and data centre services. Bahnhof Cloud includes Virtual Private Cloud, virtual private servers (VPS) and S3 object storage, complemented by VMware, Kubernetes infrastructure, accelerated computing and virtual desktops. Bahnhof also operates colocation data centres and its own Nordic fibre network. The services are consumed as a managed cloud and network service by business and consumer customers.

Bahnhof AB is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and runs its own data centres in Sweden. The software is not open source. In July 2026 Telenor announced an agreement to acquire a controlling stake in Bahnhof; the deal is subject to regulatory approval and the Bahnhof brand is to remain. For a European organisation this currently means a Swedish supplier with Swedish hosting; follow the change of ownership, as it may affect your assessment of jurisdiction and control.

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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 1, 2026

Headquarters	SE (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
Compliance documents	1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	BAHNHOF - Bahnhof AB, SE (SE)Technically measured
Category	Cloud IaaS
Type	Product
Website	bahnhof.net ↗

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 Bahnhof

The European alternatives to Bahnhof 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 Bahnhof

Bahnhof is headquartered in SE 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 Bahnhof scores best on data residency.

Bahnhof 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 Bahnhof 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 Bahnhof?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Bahnhof include 1984 Hosting, acens and Aiven. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Bahnhof?

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

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

Bahnhof is headquartered in SE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Bahnhof 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 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".

EU hosting documented: bahnhof.net/legal

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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Cloud IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service — virtual machines, storage, networking. 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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