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Yorizon Cloud: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Yorizon Cloud is a European IaaS cloud for companies and public organisations that need virtual servers, networks and storage, including for compute- and data-intensive workloads such as AI. The service runs on OpenStack with a KVM hypervisor and, according to the provider, offers platform options compatible with the Sovereign Cloud Stack. You manage resources through a central portal with a dashboard, cost overview and reporting, or through the OpenStack API and a Terraform provider. Capacity scales from a single virtual server to a dedicated cluster.

The provider is Yorizon GmbH & Co. KG in Berlin, Germany, with a second postal address in Vienna. According to its website, the cloud is operated in Germany, on decentralised edge data centres (YEXIO) in Germany and Austria, so data stays in the EU. The website does not say who owns Yorizon; ask the provider if the ownership structure matters for your assessment. The service is consumed as a cloud service, not as software you install yourself.

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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 October 15, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Cloud IaaS
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Yorizon Cloud

The European alternatives to Yorizon Cloud come from our knowledge base of over 9,400 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 Yorizon Cloud

Yorizon 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.

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

Yorizon 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 Yorizon 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 Yorizon Cloud?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Yorizon Cloud include 1984 Hosting, acens and ADESTIS Cloud. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Yorizon Cloud?

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

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

Yorizon Cloud is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Yorizon 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 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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