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Kabia Cloud: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Kabia Cloud is the managed private cloud offer of KABIA SARL, a company based in Nice, France, aimed at small and medium-sized businesses and public bodies. CPU, memory and storage are allocated dynamically and isolated per customer, on a private 10 Gbit/s network with redundant network equipment, firewall clusters, snapshots and remote replication. Kabia also offers hybrid cloud, web and mail hosting, and managed services, with support teams based in France.

According to the vendor, its points of presence are located in the French PACA region, in Tier IV data centres, and the location of the sites it operates can be guaranteed contractually. The company is French, describes itself as independent and names no foreign parent. A GDPR or data processing statement is not published on the pages reviewed, so ask for the data processing terms and the list of subcontractors before signing. No self-hosted variant is offered; the service is operated by the vendor.

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
FR (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
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Kabia Cloud

The European alternatives to Kabia Cloud 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 Kabia Cloud

Kabia Cloud is headquartered in FR 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 Kabia Cloud scores best on data residency.

Kabia 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 Kabia 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 Kabia Cloud?

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

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

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

Kabia Cloud is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Kabia 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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Compliance evidence

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