EU Sovereignty Score
EU sovereignCloud IaaSHeadquarters: FI

UpCloud: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

UpCloud is a Finnish cloud provider of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), with cloud servers, Kubernetes, storage, networking and managed databases. The service is billed hourly and can be automated through an API, an official Terraform provider, a command-line interface (CLI) and SDKs. Its customers are mainly small and medium-sized businesses in managed hosting, IT services, e-commerce and SaaS, who consume UpCloud as a hosted cloud service.

UpCloud Oy was founded in 2011, is headquartered in Helsinki and is privately held. Its investors include the Finnish state-owned investment company Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment), Inventure and the Dutch investor Connected Capital. Its data centres are in Europe, including Helsinki, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Madrid and Warsaw, but also elsewhere, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Singapore and Australia. For data that must stay in the EU, the choice of location therefore matters. UpCloud is not open source.

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Sovereignty score
59 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US, OTHER)
  • 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-645
    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
HeadquartersFI (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEU, US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryCloud IaaS
TypeProduct
Websiteupcloud.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 UpCloud

The European alternatives to UpCloud 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 UpCloud

UpCloud is headquartered in FI and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

UpCloud hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

UpCloud 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 UpCloud 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 UpCloud?

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

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

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

UpCloud is headquartered in FI (EU) and hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. That makes UpCloud 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

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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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