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EU sovereignCloud PaaSHeadquarters: CZ

Zerops: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Zerops is a developer-first cloud platform that the company describes as built to run the whole development lifecycle. The service is provided by Zerops s.r.o., a Czech limited liability company. According to the company, the stack is built in Go on Incus containers and runs on bare-metal hardware with NVMe storage.

The company states that its servers are currently located in Prague, Czech Republic. Zerops was founded in 2018 and relaunched as an independent startup in June 2024. The homepage also lists data centres in the EU and the US. The website says the service is GDPR and DPA compliant and describes SOC 2 certification as in progress. It names venture capital firms as backers, and its main infrastructure partner is vshosting.eu. For a European organisation the Czech company and Prague hosting are relevant, but the US locations listed on the homepage also need to be considered.

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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)
  • 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 11, 2026
HeadquartersCZ (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEU, USVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryCloud PaaS
TypeProduct
Websitezerops.io ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Zerops

The European alternatives to Zerops 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 Zerops

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

Zerops hosts data in EU, US. 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.

Zerops 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 Zerops 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 Zerops?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Zerops include alwaysdata, amazee.io and anynines (a9s). On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Zerops?

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

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

Zerops is headquartered in CZ (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. That makes Zerops 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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Compliance evidence

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