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Scaleway TEM: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Scaleway Transactional Email (TEM) is a fully managed service for sending automated, non-promotional emails, such as account creation, password changes and order confirmations. You send through a REST API or an SMTP relay and can connect the service to tools such as Symfony, Zapier, WordPress and PrestaShop. Scaleway provides SPF, DKIM and DMARC authentication, a domain reputation score, advanced analytics through Cockpit and a managed dedicated IP address. The service is delivered as SaaS and is not open source.

Scaleway is headquartered in Paris and is a majority-owned subsidiary of the French group Iliad, so it has no non-European parent. Scaleway describes TEM as natively integrated into its European cloud, which it says helps with GDPR compliance. The page does not name specific data centres for TEM; according to a public reference, Scaleway's data centres are located in the Paris region. For a European organisation, this is a transactional email service from an EU provider with EU ownership.

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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
Headquarters
FR (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
Hosting signal
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
Transactional Email
Type
Product
Website
scaleway.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 Scaleway TEM

The European alternatives to Scaleway TEM 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

18 European Transactional Email vendors are in the catalogue. View the whole category · Submit an alternative · View category on the map

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Scaleway TEM

Scaleway TEM 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 Scaleway TEM scores best on data residency.

Scaleway TEM 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 Scaleway TEM 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 Scaleway TEM?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Scaleway TEM include AhaSend, Elastic Email and EmailConnect. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Scaleway TEM?

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

Is Scaleway TEM GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Scaleway TEM is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Scaleway TEM 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".

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Digital sovereignty in Transactional Email

Transactional Email: Services for sending transactional emails from applications via API or SMTP relay. 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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