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Cloud Foundry: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Cloud Foundry is an open-source application platform that lets developers deploy cloud-native applications with a single command, without writing Kubernetes or infrastructure configuration themselves. It supports languages including Java, Node.js, Go, Python, PHP, Ruby and .NET, and is released under the Apache 2.0 licence. The project is run by the Cloud Foundry Foundation, a Linux Foundation project.

Cloud Foundry has no vendor cloud of its own. Organisations run it on their own servers or on infrastructure they choose, which makes it a self-hosted option for European organisations that want to decide where applications and data reside. The Linux Foundation, which hosts the Foundation, is a non-profit organisation under US tax status 501(c)(6). Commercial platforms built on Cloud Foundry are separate services and should be assessed on their own terms.

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Sovereignty score
69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-665
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

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 11, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in US (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Cloud PaaS
Type
Product
Website
cloudfoundry.org ↗

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

The European alternatives to Cloud Foundry 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 Foundry

Cloud Foundry is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Cloud Foundry hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Cloud Foundry is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Cloud Foundry 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 Foundry?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Cloud Foundry include alwaysdata, amazee.io and anynines (a9s). On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Cloud Foundry?

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

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

Cloud Foundry is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

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 11, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Cloud PaaS

Cloud PaaS: Platform as a Service — managed runtimes, container orchestration, serverless. 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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