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OVHcloud: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

OVHcloud is a cloud provider offering public cloud services (compute, containers, storage, networking, databases and AI), hosted private cloud based on VMware, Nutanix and SAP HANA, and also VPS, dedicated servers, domain names, web hosting and Microsoft Exchange email. It targets businesses, developers and public bodies and is delivered as a hosted service on infrastructure the company operates itself. Some of its managed database services are based on open-source engines such as PostgreSQL, MySQL and Valkey.

OVHcloud was founded in 1999, is headquartered in Roubaix, France, and is listed on Euronext Paris; its founder, Octave Klaba, is chief executive. The founding Klaba family is the majority shareholder. According to the vendor, it runs datacentres on four continents, including Europe, and holds ISO 27001, ISO 27701, HDS and SecNumCloud certifications for parts of its offer. The platform itself is not open source. For a European organisation this means a provider under French and EU jurisdiction; it is worth checking which region and which certified offer apply to a given workload.

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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 July 2, 2026
HeadquartersFR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalOVH - OVH SAS, FR (CA)Technically measured
CategoryCloud IaaS
TypeProduct
Websiteovhcloud.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 OVHcloud

The European alternatives to OVHcloud come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 OVHcloud

OVHcloud 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 OVHcloud scores best on data residency.

OVHcloud 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 OVHcloud 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 OVHcloud?

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

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

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

OVHcloud is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes OVHcloud 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 July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

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
us.ovhcloud.com/security/

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Cloud IaaS

Cloud IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service — virtual machines, storage, networking. 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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