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Clever Cloud Keycloak: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Clever Cloud Managed Keycloak is a fully managed identity and access management service offered by Clever Cloud, a European platform-as-a-service provider. It runs Keycloak, an open-source IAM project, on dedicated infrastructure that Clever Cloud hosts, maintains and updates. It supports OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and SAML 2.0, connects to directories such as Active Directory and OpenLDAP, and offers multifactor authentication including passkeys. It can be deployed as a highly available cluster and provisioned with Terraform. Organisations use it for single sign-on and identity federation for their applications.

Clever Cloud is headquartered in Nantes, France. It describes itself as a European PaaS and states that its infrastructure is GDPR-compliant and not subject to extraterritorial laws, which is the vendor's own claim; it also holds ISO 27001:2022 certification. The service pages do not name the data centre country. The service is vendor-hosted; Keycloak itself is open source, while the managed offering is a commercial service operated by Clever Cloud. This gives European organisations a French-operated route to Keycloak without running it themselves.

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
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
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
CleverCloud - Clever Cloud SAS, FR (FR)Technically measured
Category
Type
Product
Website

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 Clever Cloud Keycloak

The European alternatives to Clever Cloud Keycloak 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 Clever Cloud Keycloak

Clever Cloud Keycloak 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 Clever Cloud Keycloak scores best on data residency.

Clever Cloud Keycloak 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 Clever Cloud Keycloak 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 Clever Cloud Keycloak?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Clever Cloud Keycloak include Adnovum, Airlock and Auðkenni. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Clever Cloud Keycloak?

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

Is Clever Cloud Keycloak GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Clever Cloud Keycloak is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Clever Cloud Keycloak 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

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Compliance evidence

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