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Stackscale: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Stackscale is a European infrastructure-as-a-service provider offering private cloud, bare-metal servers, GPU servers, cold standby infrastructure for disaster recovery, network storage, managed services and colocation. Its focus is custom-built solutions with 24/7 technical support. Customers mainly rent dedicated or private infrastructure, delivered from the provider's own data centres.

The legal entity is Stackscale B.V., a Dutch company with an office in Amsterdam. The business was founded in Amsterdam in 2012 and has been part of the Spanish Grupo Aire since 2022, a group active in connectivity and cloud services. Its data centres are in Spain, including Elche in the province of Alicante, and in the Netherlands. For a European organisation, this means operations within the EU with EU data centres, and ownership by a Spanish group rather than a non-European one.

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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 10, 2026
HeadquartersNL (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent companyESVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
CategoryCloud IaaS
TypeProduct
Websitestackscale.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Stackscale

The European alternatives to Stackscale come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Stackscale

Stackscale is headquartered in NL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in ES, also within Europe.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Stackscale scores best on data residency.

Stackscale 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 Stackscale 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 Stackscale?

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

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

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

Stackscale is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Stackscale 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 10, 2026.

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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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