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conova: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

conova communications GmbH is an IT service provider based in Salzburg, Austria. The company offers private and public cloud, colocation, managed services with monitoring and backup, managed databases and IT security services. The services are delivered as a managed environment in which the provider runs much of the customer's systems and infrastructure. The company describes itself as a full-service IT provider.

According to its website, conova operates its own georedundant data centres in Austria, without naming the locations. The company refers to data sovereignty in Austria and cites ISO/IEC 27001, 27017 and 27018 and DIN EN 50600 certifications. Its privacy policy states compliance with the GDPR, but does not exclude that certain third-party tools used on the site transfer data to the United States. The website gives no information on ownership. For a European organisation, hosting in Austrian data centres keeps the core data within the EU, although contractual terms on sub-processors and locations remain necessary.

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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 11, 2026
Headquarters
AT (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
Web Hosting
Type
Product
Website
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Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with conova

conova is headquartered in AT 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 conova scores best on data residency.

conova 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 conova 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 conova?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to conova include Alfahosting, ALL-INKL.COM and Antagonist. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to conova?

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

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

conova is headquartered in AT (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes conova 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 11, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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