EU sovereignCloud IaaSHeadquarters: SE

Safespring: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Safespring is a Swedish provider of public cloud infrastructure billed by consumption. Its offering includes Compute, an IaaS built on OpenStack with a self-service portal and API, S3-compatible object storage, Kubernetes with a managed control plane, database as a service, backup, and GPU capacity for AI workloads. Its customers include education and research institutions, government agencies and software companies. The services are delivered as hosted services.

Safespring AB is a Swedish company. According to Safespring, customer data never leaves Sweden or Norway, where its data centres are physically located. Sweden is an EU member state and Norway is part of the European Economic Area. The website does not describe the ownership structure. Safespring also mentions ISO 27001 certification on its site. OpenStack is open-source technology, but Safespring offers a hosted commercial service rather than software you install yourself.

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Sovereignty score

59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, OTHER)
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-645
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	SE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	SafespringSE - Safespring AB, SE (SE)Technically measured
Category	Cloud IaaS
Type	Product
Website	safespring.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 Safespring

The European alternatives to Safespring 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 Safespring

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

Safespring hosts data in 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.

Safespring 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 Safespring 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 Safespring?

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

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

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

Safespring is headquartered in SE (EU) and hosts data in EU, OTHER. That makes Safespring 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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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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