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EU-hosted, non-EU parentCloud IaaSHeadquarters: NL

Worldstream: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Worldstream is a Dutch cloud infrastructure provider. It offers dedicated servers, VPS plans, cloud compute (flexible cloud, private cloud and bare metal), cloud storage (object, file, block and backup storage) and colocation. Customers rent the infrastructure and run their own operating systems and applications on it. The company describes its network as built for demanding workloads and includes DDoS protection on the listed server types.

Worldstream is headquartered in Naaldwijk, where it runs its own data centres. A majority stake is held by the private equity firm Freshstream, which has offices in London and Amsterdam, following an acquisition; the founders retain a minority stake. For a European organisation the ownership is relevant when assessing jurisdiction, even though the data is hosted in the Netherlands. The service is not open source: you buy infrastructure from a commercial provider.

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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 July 2, 2026
HeadquartersNL (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent companyGBVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalWorldStream - WorldStream B.V., NL (NL)Technically measured
CategoryCloud IaaS
TypeProduct
Websiteworldstream.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 Worldstream

The European alternatives to Worldstream 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 Worldstream

Worldstream 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 GB. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

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

Worldstream 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 Worldstream 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 Worldstream?

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

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

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

Worldstream is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Worldstream 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 July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

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