EU sovereignCloud IaaSHeadquarters: NL

Leaseweb: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Leaseweb is a Dutch infrastructure-as-a-service provider. Its portfolio covers bare-metal (dedicated) servers, public and private cloud, VPS, managed hosting, colocation and a content delivery network. The public cloud offers general-purpose, compute-optimised and memory-optimised instances, autoscaling, load balancers and an AWS-compatible API. You order the services yourself through an online platform and API; they are aimed at organisations from small businesses to large enterprises.

Leaseweb is headquartered in Amsterdam and, as a privately held company, belongs to the OCOM group, which is also based in Amsterdam; there is no foreign parent company. Its data centres are in Europe, but also in North America, Asia and Australia, and the customer chooses a location when ordering. If you want to keep data within the EU, select a European location deliberately. Leaseweb is not open source; the service is delivered as a commercial product.

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Sovereignty score

59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (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	NL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Cloud IaaS
Type	Product
Website	leaseweb.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 Leaseweb

The European alternatives to Leaseweb 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 Leaseweb

Leaseweb is headquartered in NL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Leaseweb hosts data in 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.

Leaseweb 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 Leaseweb 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 Leaseweb?

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

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

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

Leaseweb is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. That makes Leaseweb 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

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Cloud IaaS

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