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Caelis Datacenter: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Caelis Datacenter is the hosting and cloud offering of CAELIS SASU of Figeac, France, which operates two data centres in Rodez and Figeac in the Occitanie region. The offer has three parts: off-site backup (using technology from Atempo and Veeam), hosting of a customer's information system, including as IaaS, and design of a disaster-recovery plan. The vendor also mentions Active Directory and database administration, a security operations centre and day-to-day server operations. It is aimed at IT companies and organisations handling health data.

CAELIS is a French company with its registered office in Figeac. Its legal notice refers to a group but does not describe an owner, so no parent company is established. The vendor states that data is hosted in France, in its own data centres. The service is delivered by the provider; no self-hosted variant is mentioned. The privacy policy on the website covers data of site visitors and applicants; for customer data the contract terms apply, so ask for the data processing agreement. For European organisations this is a regional French option under European jurisdiction.

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 15, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
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Type
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Website

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The European alternatives to Caelis Datacenter come from our knowledge base of over 9,400 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 Caelis Datacenter

Caelis Datacenter is headquartered in FR 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 Caelis Datacenter scores best on data residency.

Caelis Datacenter 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.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Caelis Datacenter?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to Caelis Datacenter?

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

Is Caelis Datacenter GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Caelis Datacenter is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Caelis Datacenter an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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