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ScaleUp Cloud IaaS: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

ScaleUp Cloud IaaS is an infrastructure-as-a-service offering from ScaleUp Technologies in Hamburg, built on OpenStack and aligned with the Sovereign Cloud Stack standards. Organisations can use Windows or Linux virtual machines, block and object storage with S3 and Swift APIs, private networks with NAT gateway and load balancing, DNS management and a key manager with encryption at rest. Resources are managed through the Horizon web interface, the OpenStack API or tools such as OpenTofu, Terraform and Pulumi. The company also offers managed Kubernetes on the same platform. It targets organisations migrating existing workloads, for example away from VMware.

ScaleUp Technologies GmbH & Co. KG is based in Hamburg, Germany. According to the provider, data stays in Germany, falls under German law and is not accessible to third countries, and the provider describes the service as GDPR-compliant. The pages reviewed name no parent company or outside owner. The provider says open standards keep workloads portable. Data centre locations used by the IaaS service, the data processing agreement, sub-processors and certifications should be confirmed with the provider.

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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 October 15, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Cloud IaaS
Type
Product
Website
scaleuptech.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to ScaleUp Cloud IaaS

The European alternatives to ScaleUp Cloud IaaS come from our knowledge base of over 9,400 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 ScaleUp Cloud IaaS

ScaleUp Cloud IaaS 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.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so ScaleUp Cloud IaaS scores best on data residency.

ScaleUp Cloud IaaS 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 ScaleUp Cloud IaaS 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 ScaleUp Cloud IaaS?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to ScaleUp Cloud IaaS include 1984 Hosting, acens and ADESTIS Cloud. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to ScaleUp Cloud IaaS?

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

Is ScaleUp Cloud IaaS GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

ScaleUp Cloud IaaS is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes ScaleUp Cloud IaaS 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 15, 2026.

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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