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Deno Deploy: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Deno Deploy is a serverless hosting platform for JavaScript and TypeScript projects, built by the team behind the Deno runtime. It runs applications written for Deno as well as Node.js frameworks such as Next.js, Express and SvelteKit, with global edge deployment, Deno KV storage and built-in observability. Developers deploy from a source repository or from the command line.

The operator is Deno Land Inc., named in the copyright notice on the vendor's website. The company is a Delaware corporation in the United States. The vendor's regions documentation lists locations in the US, Europe and Asia, including Frankfurt as the European location. As the operator is a US company, US jurisdiction applies whichever region is chosen. The hosting service is not open source, so a European organisation that needs full control should weigh the contract terms and the region choice carefully.

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Sovereignty score
27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US, OTHER)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
    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
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEU, US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
CategoryCloud PaaS
TypeProduct
Websitedeno.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Deno Deploy

The European alternatives to Deno Deploy come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Deno Deploy

Deno Deploy 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.

Deno Deploy hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Deno Deploy 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 Deno Deploy 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 Deno Deploy?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Deno Deploy 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 Deno Deploy?

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

Is Deno Deploy GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Deno Deploy is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. 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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