Category: Cloud PaaS
8 European alternatives to Upsun — GDPR-compliant & EU-hosted.
French PaaS by the Platform.sh team with Git-driven deployments, hosted in EU and US regions
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Facts
- Headquarters
- FR (EU)
- Sovereignty model
- Vendor-hosted (EU)
- Category
- Cloud PaaS
- Type
- Product
- GDPR-compliant
- Yes
- Open-source
- No
- Data hosting
- EU, US
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
The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".
- Data Processing Agreement (DPA)
- upsun.com/trust-center/
- Security page / trust center
- upsun.com/trust-center/
Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated
Links checked on September 21, 2026.
Technical hosting signal
Independently established via a DNS/network lookup (not information from the vendor itself). This shows which network currently serves this vendor's website — often a CDN — so it does not necessarily reflect where the actual service or data is hosted.
- Network
- FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US (US)
Provenance:Technically measured
Sovereignty profile of Upsun
How this vendor scores on the five dimensions of the Digital Sovereignty Heatmap: 0 is sovereign, 100 is high exposure. These are the same scores the assessment uses.
| Jurisdictional exposure (JES) | Headquartered in the EU: European law applies | 0 |
|---|---|---|
| Data residency (DRS) | EU and non-EU hosting (EU, US) | 50 |
| Cryptographic key sovereignty (CKS) | Key management with a European vendor | 40 |
| Platform lock-in (PLS) | Closed source: switching requires data migration | 60 |
| Source & runtime sovereignty (SRS) | Closed source, runtime with the vendor | 55 |
| Average | 41 |
Why digital sovereignty matters with Upsun
Upsun is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.
Upsun 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.
Upsun 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 Upsun together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.
Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Upsun
The European alternatives to Upsun come from our knowledge base of over 3,600 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.
- anynines (a9s)↗
German PaaS platform (founded 2008) built on Cloud Foundry, with German data centres and managed PostgreSQL/MongoDB/MySQL/Redis.
DE · commercial
- CapRover↗
Self-hosted PaaS platform (Docker + nginx) that was open source under Apache 2.0 until July 2023. Since v1.x (July 2023) the project uses a custom restricted licence: paid features may not be modified or redistributed without a written agreement, and a mandatory EULA applies. The free/community tier remains source-available but the project is no longer open source under the OSI definition.
DE · open-source
- DanubeData↗
Romanian managed-services platform with serverless containers and managed databases, fully hosted in Germany, GDPR-compliant.
RO · commercial
Frequently asked questions
What is the best European alternative to Upsun?
It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Upsun include anynines (a9s), CapRover and Clever Cloud. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.
Are there open-source alternatives to Upsun?
Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Upsun include CapRover and Coolify. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.
Is Upsun GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?
Upsun is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. That makes Upsun an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.
Digital sovereignty in Cloud PaaS
Cloud PaaS: Platform as a Service — managed runtimes, container orchestration, serverless. 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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