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T Cloud: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

T Cloud Public is a public cloud platform from T-Systems, a Deutsche Telekom company, for businesses and public bodies. It provides compute, storage, containers, GPU clusters, AI and machine-learning services, big data, high-performance computing, IoT, disaster recovery and security services such as a cloud firewall, plus optional managed services for setup, monitoring, backup and patching. It is a pay-as-you-go online service operated by the provider. Until January 2026 it was called Open Telekom Cloud.

The operator is T-Systems International GmbH, part of the Deutsche Telekom group. According to the provider, the platform runs in a twin-core region in Germany (Biere/Magdeburg) and a region in the Netherlands, with supplementary offerings in Switzerland. The provider states that data stays in European data centres and is shielded from non-European laws such as the US CLOUD Act; these are the vendor's own claims. The platform is based on OpenStack, but the service itself is run by the vendor and cannot be self-hosted.

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Sovereignty score

69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-390
Hosting in the EU and Switzerland
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	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, CHVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AS6878 - T-Systems International GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category	Web Hosting
Type	Product
Website	t-cloud-public.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 T Cloud

The European alternatives to T Cloud 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 T Cloud

T Cloud 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.

T Cloud hosts data in the EU and in Switzerland. Switzerland is covered by a European Commission adequacy decision, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. If you require strictly EU hosting, check the data processing agreement for which data is stored in Switzerland.

T Cloud 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 T Cloud 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 T Cloud?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to T Cloud include Alfahosting, ALL-INKL.COM and Antagonist. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to T Cloud?

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

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

T Cloud is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU, CH. That makes T Cloud an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Web Hosting

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