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Elastx: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Elastx is a Swedish cloud provider that delivers OpenStack-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS), managed Kubernetes clusters (CaaS) and managed databases, including MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL and Valkey. It also offers services such as a CDN, DDoS protection, a web application firewall, VPN, colocation and GPU capacity for AI workloads. The services are consumed as a hosted cloud and are aimed at organisations that want their workloads and container platforms operated by a provider based in Sweden.

Elastx is headquartered in Sweden, an EU member state. Its primary region (se-sto) spans several geographically separate data centres, and CDN content is delivered from Swedish data centres. The sources consulted name no foreign parent company. The platform itself is not open source, but it builds on the open-source OpenStack and Kubernetes projects. According to its website, Elastx is certified to ISO 27001 and ISO 14001. For a European organisation this means customer data is hosted within the EU, under Swedish and European law.

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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
Hosting signalELASTX - ELASTX AB, SE (SE)Technically measured
CategoryCloud IaaS
TypeProduct
Websiteelastx.se ↗

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 Elastx

The European alternatives to Elastx 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 Elastx

Elastx 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 Elastx scores best on data residency.

Elastx 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 Elastx 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 Elastx?

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

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

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

Elastx is headquartered in SE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Elastx 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

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Cloud IaaS

Cloud IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service — virtual machines, storage, networking. 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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