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T Cloud Public: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

T Cloud Public (known until January 2026 as Open Telekom Cloud) is Deutsche Telekom's public cloud, offered by T-Systems International. According to the provider, the platform is fully based on OpenStack and offers compute, storage, containers, AI, big data and managed services that you combine as needed. It targets companies, public bodies, healthcare, the financial and energy sectors, and research institutions across Europe. The provider reports certifications to ISO 27001, TISAX and BSI C5.

The provider presents the service as a sovereign cloud from Germany. According to the website, regions are operated exclusively in Europe: a twin-core region in Germany (Biere/Magdeburg), additional regions in the Netherlands and supplementary offerings in Switzerland. The provider states that data stays in European data centres, independent of non-European laws. The platform is not offered as open source but rests on open-source technology, which eases moving to other OpenStack environments. When choosing a region, check which location applies to your data.

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Sovereignty score

69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-390
Hosting in the EU and Switzerland
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 9, 2026

Headquarters	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, CHVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	SCZN-AS - T-Systems International GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category	Cloud IaaS
Type	Product
Website	t-cloud-public.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 T Cloud Public

The European alternatives to T Cloud Public 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 T Cloud Public

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

T Cloud Public hosts data in the EU and in Switzerland. Switzerland is covered by a European Commission adequacy decision, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. If you require strictly EU hosting, check the data processing agreement for which data is stored in Switzerland.

T Cloud Public 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 T Cloud Public 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 T Cloud Public?

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

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

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

T Cloud Public is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU, CH. That makes T Cloud Public 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: t-cloud-public.com/en/security

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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