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Fastly: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Fastly is an edge cloud platform combining a content delivery network, edge compute and security. The CDN supports real-time configuration changes and offers real-time traffic logs and observability from origin to edge. Its Deploy product runs code close to users on a serverless platform, and its Secure product covers a next-generation web application firewall, bot management, DDoS protection and API security, with an optional 24/7 managed security service. A Managed CDN variant runs Fastly's CDN inside a customer's own network. The caching layer is built on a heavily modified version of the open-source Varnish software.

Fastly is a publicly traded company headquartered in San Francisco, California, so its services are subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act. The platform itself is proprietary and delivered as a managed service; only the underlying Varnish technology is open source. The sources consulted do not give data hosting regions, so European organisations should ask which points of presence process their traffic and logs, and under which contractual terms.

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Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • 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 4, 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 hostingUSVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryCDN, DNS & Domains
TypeProduct
Websitefastly.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Fastly

The European alternatives to Fastly 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 Fastly

Fastly 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.

Fastly hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Fastly 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 Fastly 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 Fastly?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Fastly include Bunny.net, ClouDNS and deSEC. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Fastly?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Fastly include deSEC, Knot DNS and Knot Resolver. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Fastly is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. 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 4, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in CDN, DNS & Domains

CDN, DNS & Domains: Content delivery networks, DNS services and domain registration. 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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