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DARZ Cloud: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

DARZ Cloud is the cloud offering of DARZ GmbH in Darmstadt. It covers Infrastructure-as-a-Service based on VMware and OpenStack in shared or dedicated private cloud environments, hybrid and multi-cloud solutions, platform and software as a service, container as a service, and services such as backup and disaster recovery. For public cloud, DARZ works with hyperscalers such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, and it combines these with colocation as required. The service is aimed at start-ups, small and mid-sized businesses and larger organisations that want a private or hybrid environment built and operated for them.

DARZ GmbH is headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, and operates its own data centres in Darmstadt and Frankfurt. According to the vendor, data in its cloud is located in Germany and stays there. Anyone buying hyperscaler capacity through DARZ is subject to that hyperscaler's terms and jurisdiction for those components. Ownership information is not published on the website. For European organisations, DARZ Cloud is mainly relevant as private or hybrid infrastructure in German data centres.

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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 14, 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
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to DARZ Cloud

The European alternatives to DARZ Cloud come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 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 DARZ Cloud

DARZ Cloud 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 DARZ Cloud scores best on data residency.

DARZ Cloud 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 DARZ Cloud 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 DARZ Cloud?

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

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

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

DARZ Cloud is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes DARZ Cloud an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Cloud IaaS

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