Are there any EU cloud providers?
Yes. Major EU-based cloud providers include OVHcloud and Scaleway (France), Hetzner and IONOS (Germany), and UpCloud (Finland), all alternatives to the US hyperscalers for organisations that want data held under EU jurisdiction.
The appeal is legal rather than technical, since data hosted by US-headquartered firms can fall under the CLOUD Act even when servers sit in Europe.
Easy8 fits this picture as software that can be deployed in a European private cloud, on-premises, or air-gapped, keeping your data under EU jurisdiction or fully under your own control.
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Is Atlassian Isolated Cloud GDPR-compliant?
Yes, Atlassian Isolated Cloud is GDPR-compliant, building on Atlassian's established GDPR framework for its cloud offerings. It enhances compliance through single-tenant isolation and customer-selected regions in the EU or elsewhere, minimizing data transfer risks.
What is the European sovereign cloud?
A European sovereign cloud is a cloud-computing environment that keeps all customer data, metadata, workloads and administrative control under exclusive European Union (EU) jurisdiction, operated by EU-based staff and certified against EU rules, so that organisations can comply with the bloc’s demanding privacy, cybersecurity and industrial-policy requirements while still enjoying hyperscale cloud services.
The idea is driven by Europe’s wider push for digital sovereignty—reducing reliance on non-EU tech infrastructure— and is being realised through a mix of EU policy instruments (GDPR, the proposed Cloud & AI Development Act, the EU-wide “EUCS” security label) and large public-private projects.
Due to conflicting legislatures, there is a serious doubt among legal experts whether a US based parent company can truly provide an EU sovereign cloud, as they so strongly claim, through their directly controlled subsidiaries in the EU.
