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Rackspace Technology: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Rackspace Technology is a US managed cloud company that designs, runs and supports cloud infrastructure for enterprises. Its offering covers cloud consulting and migration, managed cloud operations, platform engineering, data and analytics services, cybersecurity and governed private cloud environments for AI workloads. Customers can combine Rackspace-operated infrastructure with managed operations on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, and with embedded engineering teams. The model is therefore a mix of managed service and infrastructure rather than a self-service platform.

According to press reports, the company is headquartered in Windcrest, Texas. A 2020 SEC filing names funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management among its major shareholders. The data centres named on its website include Amsterdam, Frankfurt and London, alongside sites in the United States and Asia-Pacific. For a European organisation, the main considerations are US ownership and US jurisdiction, including the CLOUD Act, regardless of where data is stored. The product is not open source. It is advisable to fix the data location for each service contractually.

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Sovereignty score
27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU, OTHER)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    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-615
    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 10, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingUS, EU, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
CategoryCloud IaaS
TypeProduct
Websiterackspace.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Rackspace Technology

The European alternatives to Rackspace Technology 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 Rackspace Technology

Rackspace Technology 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.

Rackspace Technology hosts data in US, EU, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Rackspace Technology 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 Rackspace Technology 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 Rackspace Technology?

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

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

Is Rackspace Technology GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Rackspace Technology is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, EU, 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

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Compliance evidence

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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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