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Scalr: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Scalr is a platform for running and governing Terraform and OpenTofu workflows. Platform engineering teams use it to standardise infrastructure as code, with role-based access control, policy as code, drift detection, and registries for modules and providers. The control plane is offered as a hosted web application. Runs can be executed on the organisation's own infrastructure through self-hosted agents, and state can be kept in the organisation's own storage bucket, an option on the Enterprise plan.

Scalr, Inc. is a US company based in California. The control plane runs as a hosted service operated by the vendor, while only the execution of runs can stay on the customer's infrastructure. The privacy policy states that personal data may be stored outside the European Economic Area, naming the United States as an example, and refers to GDPR compliance. No data processing agreement is published on the vendor's website. For a European organisation, the vendor-hosted control layer and US jurisdiction are the main points to assess.

Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • 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 11, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Scalr

The European alternatives to Scalr 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 Scalr

Scalr 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.

Scalr hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Scalr 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 Scalr 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 Scalr?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Scalr include Buddy, CFEngine and Checkmk. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Scalr?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Scalr include CFEngine, Checkmk, Codeberg and Eclipse Che. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Scalr is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. 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 DevOps

DevOps: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, container registries. 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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