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Gcore: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Gcore is an international provider of public cloud, edge computing, content delivery and security. Its portfolio includes a CDN, DNS and streaming, cloud compute (virtual machines and bare metal), S3-compatible storage, containers and managed databases, GPU cloud and AI inference, and security services such as DDoS protection, a web application firewall and bot management. The services are consumed as a hosted cloud and network service, for organisations that want to place content delivery, AI workloads or security with a single provider.

Gcore is headquartered in Luxembourg and, according to Wikipedia, is privately held. The sources consulted name no foreign parent company. Its infrastructure is distributed worldwide, with a network of points of presence on six continents and AI cloud clusters that include one in Luxembourg, so where data is processed depends on the chosen service and region. The platform is not open source. A European organisation should therefore check, service by service, in which region its data is processed.

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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 2, 2026
HeadquartersLU (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEU, USVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents2 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalGCORE - G-Core Labs S.A., LU (LU)Technically measured
CategoryCloud IaaS
TypeProduct
Websitegcore.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 Gcore

The European alternatives to Gcore 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 Gcore

Gcore is headquartered in LU and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Gcore 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.

Gcore 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 Gcore 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 Gcore?

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

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

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

Gcore is headquartered in LU (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. That makes Gcore 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)
gcore.com/legal
Security page / trust center
gcore.com/hosting-provider-security

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 22, 2026.

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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