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Intercolo: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Intercolo is a German IT service provider offering GDPR-compliant cloud, CDN, storage and data centre services. Its storage offering is S3 object storage that works through the S3 API and scales with demand; the maximum object size is 5 TB, and the provider states an SLA-based availability of 99.95 percent. Intercolo also offers colocation, where customers house their own hardware in the company's data centres. The services focus on business-critical workloads for companies and are delivered as a hosted service.

Intercolo is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Its data centre is also in Frankfurt, directly at the internet exchange point according to the company, and runs on 100 percent green energy according to the provider. The product is not open source. The provider's website names no foreign parent company. For organisations seeking object storage or colocation within Germany and the EU, the Frankfurt storage location is the relevant fact.

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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
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
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
INTERCOLO-AS - intercolo GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category
Storage & Backup
Type
Product
Website
intercolo.de ↗

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 Intercolo

The European alternatives to Intercolo come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 Intercolo

Intercolo 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 Intercolo scores best on data residency.

Intercolo 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 Intercolo 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 Intercolo?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Intercolo include Acronis, Atempo and Bacula Systems. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Intercolo?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Intercolo include Bacula Systems, Bareos and BorgBackup. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Intercolo is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Intercolo 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 4, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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