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Google Cloud Secret Manager: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Google Cloud Secret Manager is a managed service for storing and managing sensitive data such as API keys, passwords, usernames and certificates. A secret is a resource holding metadata, and each version holds the actual content. The service offers automatic replication, user-managed replication across regions you choose, and regional secrets for data-residency requirements. Everything is encrypted with TLS in transit and AES-256 at rest, and you can use your own customer-managed keys (CMEK) from Cloud KMS. It is delivered through the Google Cloud console, command line and APIs.

Secret Manager is part of Google Cloud, a service of Google LLC in Mountain View, California, in the United States. Google Cloud publishes regions in Europe, including Stockholm. The Cloud Data Processing Addendum describes Google as a processor and refers to the GDPR. A European region can therefore be selected, but the provider remains American and subject to US law such as the CLOUD Act. The CMEK keys are likewise held in Cloud KMS, a service of the same provider. There is no self-hosted option.

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Sovereignty score

27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU)
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 13, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	US, EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Password Manager
Type	Product
Website	cloud.google.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Google Cloud Secret Manager

The European alternatives to Google Cloud Secret Manager come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 Google Cloud Secret Manager

Google Cloud Secret Manager 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.

Google Cloud Secret Manager hosts data in US, EU. 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.

Google Cloud Secret Manager 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 Google Cloud Secret Manager 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 Google Cloud Secret Manager?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Google Cloud Secret Manager include AuthPass, Avira Password Manager and Dashlane. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Google Cloud Secret Manager?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Google Cloud Secret Manager include AuthPass, gopass, KeePass and KeePassDX. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Google Cloud Secret Manager GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Google Cloud Secret Manager is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, EU. 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

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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".

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

Checked on October 13, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

Digital sovereignty in Password Manager

Password Manager: Password vault — generate, store and autofill passwords. 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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