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gridscale: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

gridscale is a German cloud provider offering virtual machines, managed Kubernetes, managed databases, load balancers, object storage and AMD GPU instances for AI and machine learning. It also provides Hybrid Core Concierge, a managed software tool for automating data centres, and can install its platform at a location of the customer's choosing, positioned as a route out of other clouds. The services are consumed as a hosted cloud or deployed on site.

gridscale GmbH is headquartered in Cologne, Germany. In 2023 the French company OVHcloud acquired 100 per cent of it, so the ultimate parent sits in France, also an EU member state. Its data centres are in Germany, the Netherlands (Amsterdam), Switzerland and Austria (Vienna); further European locations were planned. The platform is not presented as open source, although gridscale maintains a public GitHub profile. For a European organisation this means a German provider within a European group structure, with the option of hosting in Germany.

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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 4, 2026
HeadquartersDE (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent companyFRVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalgridscale - gridscale GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
CategoryCloud IaaS
TypeProduct
Websitegridscale.io ↗

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 gridscale

The European alternatives to gridscale 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 gridscale

gridscale 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. The ultimate owner is based in FR, also within Europe.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so gridscale scores best on data residency.

gridscale 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 gridscale 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 gridscale?

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

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

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

gridscale is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes gridscale an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and 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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