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Scalingo: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Scalingo is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and database-as-a-service for developers and organisations that want to run web applications without managing servers. Applications are deployed from Git, with autoscaling, zero-downtime rolling deploys, rollbacks, workers and cron jobs. Managed databases include PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch and InfluxDB, with backups, point-in-time recovery and encryption at rest and in transit. Scalingo is delivered as a hosted service.

Scalingo is a French company founded in Strasbourg. It runs on the infrastructure of 3DS Outscale, a French cloud provider that belongs to Dassault Systèmes, in two independent regions in Paris. One of them is built on Outscale infrastructure that holds the SecNumCloud qualification; according to Scalingo, it does not hold SecNumCloud itself yet. Scalingo states that it is ISO 27001 and HDS certified, that all its datacenters are in Europe, that no data leaves the EU and that data is subject to European jurisdiction only.

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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 9, 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
Compliance documents
2 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal
AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (NL)Technically measured
Category
Cloud PaaS
Type
Product
Website
scalingo.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 Scalingo

The European alternatives to Scalingo 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 Scalingo

Scalingo 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 Scalingo scores best on data residency.

Scalingo 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 Scalingo 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 Scalingo?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Scalingo include alwaysdata, amazee.io and anynines (a9s). On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Scalingo?

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

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

Scalingo is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Scalingo 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 9, 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".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA)
scalingo.com/en/legal
Security page / trust center
scalingo.com/en/security

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

ISO/IEC 27001Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Cloud PaaS

Cloud PaaS: Platform as a Service — managed runtimes, container orchestration, serverless. 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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