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Self-hosted / open sourceVirtualisation & ContainersHeadquarters: US

Platform9: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Platform9 offers Private Cloud Director, software that turns existing servers and infrastructure into a private cloud. It manages virtual machines and containers from one control plane, with Kubernetes built in. The vendor also offers a migration tool for moving workloads off VMware. The product is deployed on the customer's own infrastructure. Platform9 Systems, Inc., is a US company whose founders include early VMware engineers.

The company's privacy policy states that personal data may be stored and processed in the United States or in any other country where Platform9, its affiliates or its service providers maintain facilities. The policy names no specific data centres and does not refer to the GDPR or to a data processing agreement; it was last updated in 2021. For a European organisation, US jurisdiction applies to the vendor, and the transfer and contractual position should be checked before any personal data is processed.

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Sovereignty score
55 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (US, OTHER)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-380
    Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-645
    Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

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
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Data hostingSelf-hosted, e.g. in US, OTHER (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
CategoryVirtualisation & Containers
TypeProduct
Websiteplatform9.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Platform9

The European alternatives to Platform9 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 Platform9

Platform9 is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Platform9 runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

Platform9 is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Platform9 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 Platform9?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Platform9 include APPUiO (VSHN), Gardener and Giant Swarm. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Platform9?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Platform9 include Gardener, Giant Swarm, Harvester, IncludeOS, K3s, Kamaji and Kubermatic. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Platform9 GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Platform9 is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, 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

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".

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

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