EU sovereignCloud IaaSHeadquarters: SE

Cleura: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Cleura is a Swedish infrastructure-as-a-service provider built on the open-source OpenStack platform. Its offer includes a Public Cloud for building and running applications, a Private Cloud as a dedicated environment, and a Compliant Cloud aimed at organisations in regulated sectors. The services cover compute with virtual machines, containers, storage, databases and managed services. The infrastructure is programmable and can be automated through APIs and infrastructure-as-code. Cleura also provides professional services and cloud training.

Cleura is headquartered in Sweden and is part of the Iver group. Its services run from data centres in Stockholm and Karlskrona in Sweden and in Frankfurt in Germany, so within the EU. According to Cleura, its services are not subject to extraterritorial US legislation such as FISA 702. The company holds ISO 27001:2022 certification. Because the platform is based on OpenStack, workloads can in principle be moved to other OpenStack environments, which limits dependence on a single supplier.

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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	CLEURA - Cleura AB, SE (SE)Technically measured
Category	Cloud IaaS
Type	Product
Website	cleura.com ↗

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 Cleura

The European alternatives to Cleura 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 Cleura

Cleura 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 Cleura scores best on data residency.

Cleura 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 Cleura 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 Cleura?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Cleura 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 Cleura?

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

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

Cleura is headquartered in SE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Cleura 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: cleura.com/compliance

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Cloud IaaS

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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