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fortrabbit: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

fortrabbit is a managed, PHP-first cloud hosting service that also targets Laravel applications. It offers PHP runtimes, MySQL, SSL and backups. Deployment is Git-based with GitHub integration, and access over SSH and SFTP allows, for example, Artisan commands and migrations to run. Billing is monthly, based on actual usage.

fortrabbit is provided by fortrabbit GmbH, a German company, and runs on AWS. The region is chosen per app: the EU region is in Ireland, and a US region is also available. Account and billing data is stored in Ireland. The data processing agreement is part of the terms of service and applies automatically. fortrabbit itself points out that AWS and several sub-processors are US companies and that the US CLOUD Act can apply. Transfers to the US rely on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses. An organisation that wants to keep data inside the EU should select the EU region when creating the app.

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Sovereignty score
59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
  • 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-645
    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 9, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EU, USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents
2 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal
AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
Cloud PaaS
Type
Product
Website
fortrabbit.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 fortrabbit

The European alternatives to fortrabbit come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 fortrabbit

fortrabbit 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.

fortrabbit hosts data in EU, US. 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.

fortrabbit 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 fortrabbit 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 fortrabbit?

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

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

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

fortrabbit is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. That makes fortrabbit 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 9, 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)
fortrabbit.com/legal/data-processing/
Security page / trust center
fortrabbit.com/trust

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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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