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Veeam: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Veeam supplies software for backup, recovery and data protection. Its offering includes Veeam Data Platform, software that runs in your own environment, Veeam Data Cloud as a SaaS service, and Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes. It protects Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Salesforce, Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, hypervisors and on-premises environments, among others. Veeam Vault adds managed cloud storage for offsite backups. Veeam is not open source.

Veeam began as a Swiss company (Veeam Software AG in Baar). In March 2020 Insight Partners completed its acquisition for about 5 billion dollars and announced it would move the headquarters from Switzerland to the United States; the company is now based in Columbus, Ohio. Veeam is therefore a US, privately held company owned by a US investor and is subject to US law. With Veeam Data Platform you decide where the software and the backup data reside. With the SaaS services Veeam determines the infrastructure, so consult Veeam's current documentation or Trust Center for locations.

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Sovereignty score
57 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-380
    Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

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 September 20, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Data hostingSelf-hosted, e.g. in EU, US (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalAMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryStorage & Backup
TypeProduct
Websiteveeam.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 Veeam

The European alternatives to Veeam 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 Veeam

Veeam 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.

Veeam runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

Veeam is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Veeam 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 Veeam?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Veeam include SEP sesam, Bacula Systems and Bareos. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Veeam?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Veeam include Bacula Systems, Bareos and Proxmox. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

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

Veeam is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU, 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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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Storage & Backup

Storage & Backup: Business storage, backup solutions, object storage and data recovery. 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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