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Jelastic (Virtuozzo): sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Jelastic, now part of the Virtuozzo Application Platform, is a multi-cloud platform as a service built on container technology. It targets hosting providers, software vendors, telecom companies, enterprises and developers. It supports environments for Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Python and Go, as well as custom Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters. The platform is available as a public cloud across many data centres, and as virtual and on-premises deployments.

Jelastic was acquired by Virtuozzo in 2021. Virtuozzo is a privately held software company headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, while Jelastic itself is listed as a US subsidiary. Switzerland belongs to EFTA, not to the EU. Because the platform runs in data centres worldwide, an EU data centre has to be chosen explicitly. The Jelastic platform itself is not open source, although Virtuozzo publishes separate open source projects such as OpenVZ and CRIU. For European organisations, the party operating the platform matters at least as much as the vendor behind it.

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Sovereignty score

59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (CH, EU, US, OTHER)
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-645
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 9, 2026

Headquarters	CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	CH, EU, US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Cloud PaaS
Type	Product
Website	jelastic.com ↗

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 Jelastic (Virtuozzo)

The European alternatives to Jelastic (Virtuozzo) 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 Jelastic (Virtuozzo)

Jelastic (Virtuozzo) 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.

Jelastic (Virtuozzo) hosts data in CH, EU, US, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Jelastic (Virtuozzo) 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 Jelastic (Virtuozzo) 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 Jelastic (Virtuozzo)?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Jelastic (Virtuozzo) include alwaysdata, amazee.io and anynines (a9s). On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Jelastic (Virtuozzo)?

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

Is Jelastic (Virtuozzo) GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Jelastic (Virtuozzo) is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH, EU, US, OTHER. That makes Jelastic (Virtuozzo) 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 9, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Security page / trust center: jelastic.com/security

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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