EU sovereignCloud IaaSHeadquarters: CH

Infomaniak Public Cloud: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Infomaniak Public Cloud is an infrastructure-as-a-service platform built on OpenStack. It offers virtual machines (including GPU instances), block storage on Ceph, object storage with an S3-compatible API, networking with load balancers, managed Kubernetes and managed databases such as MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis. You use the services yourself through the console and OpenStack-compatible APIs. According to Infomaniak, the platform was developed in-house, and the company's own services, such as kDrive and Swiss Backup, run on it too.

Infomaniak is headquartered in Switzerland and says it develops and operates the service exclusively there, in its own data centres, which hold certifications including ISO 27001. Switzerland is not an EU member state but belongs to EFTA, so your data is hosted outside the EU. Because the platform rests on open OpenStack interfaces, workloads can in principle move to other OpenStack providers. The service itself is not open source, although the underlying technology is.

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Sovereignty score

67 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
Data residency SOV-380
Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
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 6, 2026

Headquarters	CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	CHVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Cloud IaaS
Type	Product
Website	infomaniak.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Infomaniak Public Cloud

The European alternatives to Infomaniak Public Cloud come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 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 Infomaniak Public Cloud

Infomaniak Public Cloud is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

Infomaniak Public Cloud hosts data in Switzerland only. Switzerland is not part of the EU or the EEA, so the GDPR does not apply there directly; the European Commission does recognise Swiss data protection as adequate, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. Our model therefore scores it between EU hosting and hosting outside Europe. If you require strictly EU hosting, take this into account.

Infomaniak Public Cloud 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 Infomaniak Public Cloud 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 Infomaniak Public Cloud?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Infomaniak Public Cloud 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 Infomaniak Public Cloud?

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

Is Infomaniak Public Cloud GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Infomaniak Public Cloud is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. That makes Infomaniak Public Cloud 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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