EU sovereignCloud IaaSHeadquarters: PL

Oktawave: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Oktawave is a public cloud computing service that provides virtual servers to customers. The company describes itself as a Polish public cloud platform, and the service is bought as hosted infrastructure, so customers do not need to run software on their own hardware. The operating company, Oktawave S.A., has its address in Warsaw, Poland. The offering serves as a European alternative to infrastructure-as-a-service from US providers such as AWS and Azure.

For a European organisation, the location and the legal framework matter most. According to the website, the virtual servers run in secure data centres in Poland, and the security page names three Polish sites: Warsaw 1, Warsaw 2 and Krakow. The company lists ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018 and CSA STAR certifications. Its privacy policy states that personal data is processed under the GDPR, but it also notes that some service providers may be located outside the EEA. The website does not mention a data processing agreement for customers, so it should be requested from the provider.

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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 12, 2026

Headquarters	PL (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
Category	Cloud IaaS
Type	Product
Website	oktawave.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Oktawave

The European alternatives to Oktawave come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 Oktawave

Oktawave is headquartered in PL 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 Oktawave scores best on data residency.

Oktawave 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 Oktawave 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 Oktawave?

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

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

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

Oktawave is headquartered in PL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Oktawave 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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Digital sovereignty in Cloud IaaS

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