Non-EU vendorCloud IaaSHeadquarters: CA

VEXXHOST: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

VEXXHOST is a Canadian cloud infrastructure provider specialising in OpenStack-based services. Its products include a public cloud on OpenStack, cloud-native platforms with Kubernetes, storage with Ceph, GPU infrastructure and AI inference. Deployments can run in VEXXHOST facilities, in a customer's own data centre or in another approved environment. Services are offered both as managed operations and for self-run setups, so customers can choose hosted or on-premises operation.

VEXXHOST, Inc. is based in the Montreal area in Quebec and describes itself as Canadian-owned; its website names no foreign parent company. Its public cloud regions are in Montreal, Santa Clara in California and Amsterdam in the Netherlands. For a European organisation, the company is established outside the EU, and the Amsterdam region offers EU hosting, while the Canadian and US locations fall outside EU jurisdiction. OpenStack, the software the platform builds on, is open source; VEXXHOST's own services are not.

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Sovereignty score

42 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (CA)
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US, OTHER)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
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-630
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

Headquarters	CA (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Yes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, US, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Cloud IaaS
Type	Product
Website	vexxhost.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to VEXXHOST

The European alternatives to VEXXHOST 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 VEXXHOST

VEXXHOST is headquartered in CA, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

VEXXHOST 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.

VEXXHOST 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 VEXXHOST 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 VEXXHOST?

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

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

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

VEXXHOST is headquartered in CA (OTHER) and hosts data in EU, US, OTHER. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. 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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