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Divio: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Divio is a platform-as-a-service for digital agencies and development teams. It replaces DevOps work with managed tooling for cloud management, backups and mirror environments, and supports frameworks such as Django CMS, Wagtail, Laravel and Spring Boot. Under the heading "Cloud Infrastructure at Cost", Divio connects customers to third-party IaaS, including AWS, at cost. The service is consumed as SaaS. The company states that it is ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant.

Divio Technologies AB is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and is listed on the Stockholm stock exchange; its site says "Built in Switzerland. Designed in Sweden" and mentions offices in Zurich and New York. Where hosted data resides depends on the infrastructure provider chosen, and the site names no fixed hosting regions. The platform is not open source. When choosing the underlying cloud, a European organisation should check which jurisdiction applies to its data.

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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 2, 2026
HeadquartersSE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents3 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryCloud PaaS
TypeProduct
Websitedivio.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Divio

The European alternatives to Divio 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 Divio

Divio is headquartered in SE 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 Divio scores best on data residency.

Divio 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 Divio 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 Divio?

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

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

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

Divio is headquartered in SE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Divio 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 2, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA)
divio.com/terms-and-policies/support-policy/
Security page / trust center
divio.com/terms-and-policies/security/
EU hosting documented
divio.com/cloud-infrastructure-at-cost/

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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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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