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internex: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

internex is a managed hosting and cloud provider operated by internex GmbH, with its registered seat in Gmünd, Austria. The range covers managed cloud infrastructure (IaaS), managed cloud hosting (PaaS), managed servers and clusters, Kubernetes and Docker, databases and managed applications such as WordPress, Nextcloud, GitLab, Keycloak and n8n, plus AI hosting on GPU servers. Customers manage projects through web tools such as a cloud manager; the offer is aimed at businesses.

The vendor states that storage, processing and backups take place exclusively in Austria, without naming data centre sites, and describes itself as a GDPR-conformant managed service provider. The company is Austrian and no foreign parent is stated. The infrastructure is operated by the vendor and no self-hosted variant of the infrastructure services is offered. If you want a single jurisdiction, record in the contract which sites and subcontractors apply to the product you choose.

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 15, 2026
Headquarters
AT (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
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Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to internex

The European alternatives to internex come from our knowledge base of over 9,400 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 internex

internex is headquartered in AT 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 internex scores best on data residency.

internex 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 internex 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 internex?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to internex include 1984 Hosting, acens and ADESTIS Cloud. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to internex?

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

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

internex is headquartered in AT (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes internex 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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