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infra:u: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

infra:u is a cloud infrastructure service from UPONU GmbH, built on OpenStack and the Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) standards. The offering includes a Private Cloud Stack with dedicated resources and strict logical separation, a Public Cloud Stack billed by consumption, Disaster Recovery as a Service with a validated recovery plan, and SaaS services such as business email, cloud telephony and S3-compatible object storage. The environment can run on UPONU's own hardware in a shared setup or be built as a private cloud in your own data centre. The vendor presents the open standards as protection against vendor lock-in.

UPONU GmbH is headquartered in Siegen, Germany; its imprint lists two group companies at the same address and no parent company. According to the vendor, the infrastructure runs in data centres in Germany and is not subject to US jurisdiction or the CLOUD Act; this is the provider's own claim. Because OpenStack and SCS are open standards, a European organisation can later move to another SCS provider. Ask for the exact data-centre locations and contract terms.

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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 14, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Cloud IaaS
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to infra:u

The European alternatives to infra:u come from our knowledge base of over 9,200 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 infra:u

infra:u 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.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so infra:u scores best on data residency.

infra:u 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 infra:u 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 infra:u?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to infra:u 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 infra:u?

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

Is infra:u GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

infra:u is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes infra:u 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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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Cloud IaaS

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