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Non-EU vendorCloud Storage (Personal)Headquarters: RU

Mail.ru Cloud: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Mail.ru Cloud (Облако Mail) is a personal online storage service for keeping and sharing files, available at cloud.mail.ru. The service is operated by VK Company Limited, which is headquartered in Moscow, Russia. VK also owns the Mail email service.

As a Russian company, VK is subject to Russian law, and the operator's terms place data handling under Russian jurisdiction. The operator does not state where data is physically stored, so the storage location needs to be checked in the operator's privacy policy and data processing addendum before any business data is stored. For European organisations, the Russian jurisdiction is the central sovereignty consideration for sensitive or regulated data held in a consumer cloud storage service. Organisations should not assume that EU data protection safeguards apply to files stored in it.

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Sovereignty score
32 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-250
    Headquartered outside the EU (RU)
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (OTHER)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-630
    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 11, 2026
Headquarters
RU (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
No — no adequacy decisionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Cloud Storage (Personal)
Type
Product
Website
cloud.mail.ru ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Mail.ru Cloud

The European alternatives to Mail.ru Cloud 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 Mail.ru Cloud

Mail.ru Cloud is headquartered in RU, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Mail.ru Cloud hosts data outside the EU (OTHER). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Mail.ru 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 Mail.ru 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 Mail.ru Cloud?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Mail.ru Cloud include CloudMe, Cozy Cloud and Cryptee. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Mail.ru Cloud?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Mail.ru Cloud include Cozy Cloud, Cryptee, Filen and Internxt. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Mail.ru Cloud GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Mail.ru Cloud is headquartered in RU (OTHER) and hosts data in OTHER. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

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 11, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Cloud Storage (Personal)

Cloud Storage (Personal): Personal cloud storage — sync and share files. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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