EU sovereignCloud IaaSHeadquarters: DE

Cloud&Heat: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Cloud&Heat builds and operates private and public cloud infrastructure based on open-source technologies such as OpenStack, Kubernetes and Proxmox VE. The offering covers on-premises cloud appliances for organisations that run their own infrastructure, infrastructure-as-a-service in its public cloud, managed Kubernetes, and consulting and training. Services are delivered as an on-premises installation or as a hosted public cloud.

Cloud&Heat Technologies GmbH is based in Dresden, Germany. The public cloud runs from Dresden, so customer data is hosted within the EU. The company's privacy policy refers to GDPR obligations, and the sources reviewed name no external shareholder. Because the provider is European and its technology is open source, organisations can review the architecture and run comparable OpenStack environments themselves. The data processing agreement, sub-processors and certifications of the specific service should still be checked.

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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 10, 2026

Headquarters	DE (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
Category	Cloud IaaS
Type	Product
Website	cloudandheat.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Cloud&Heat

The European alternatives to Cloud&Heat 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 Cloud&Heat

Cloud&Heat is headquartered in DE 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 Cloud&Heat scores best on data residency.

Cloud&Heat 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 Cloud&Heat 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 Cloud&Heat?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Cloud&Heat 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 Cloud&Heat?

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

Is Cloud&Heat GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Cloud&Heat is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Cloud&Heat 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 10, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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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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