Vendor ratings
Every vendor in the open sovereignty-vendors dataset. Click any name for the sources, the one-line reason, and the five-dimension breakdown.
- AkamaiCDNred
NASDAQ-listed US corporation (AKAM). Global edge CDN with EU-only pinning available; the contracting entity and control plane are US.
- Amazon SESEmailred
Amazon SES inherits AWS's exposure: the Luxembourg contracting entity's ultimate parent (Amazon.com, Inc.) is US-incorporated, so an SES EU region is still reachable under CLOUD Act.
- AmplitudeAnalyticsred
US-listed corporation (NASDAQ: AMPL) running on Google Cloud. EU residency exists on enterprise plans; the contracting entity remains US-based and CLOUD-Act-exposed.
- Anthropic (Claude)AI / LLMred
Delaware public benefit corporation; inference runs on AWS Trainium and GCP TPUs, primarily in US regions. No EU region for the direct API today.
- AppwriteBackend-as-a-servicered
Appwrite Cloud is a Delaware corporation with headquarters in Tel Aviv, running on Google Cloud. Frankfurt region available; the US contracting entity and GCP dependency both apply.
- Auth0 (Okta)Authred
Auth0 is an Okta subsidiary; both entities are US-incorporated. EU tenant region on AWS Frankfurt is available but does not remove Okta's US jurisdiction over the contract.
- Amazon Web ServicesHosting / cloudred
The EU-Luxembourg contracting entity is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (US). CLOUD Act reach follows the ultimate parent — an EU subsidiary is not a jurisdictional firewall.
- AxiomMonitoringred
Delaware corporation on AWS. Structured event ingestion for logs + traces; EU region on AWS Frankfurt available, US contracting entity applies CLOUD Act.
- Microsoft AzureHosting / cloudred
Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited is the EU contracting entity, but ultimate parent Microsoft Corporation is US-listed. Azure EU regions do not shield from the CLOUD Act — the parent's jurisdiction reaches through the Irish sub.
- Azure Blob StorageObject storagered
Azure Blob Storage inherits Azure's exposure: EU-region buckets are available but the contracting entity's ultimate parent (Microsoft Corp.) is US-listed.
- Backblaze B2Object storagered
NASDAQ-listed US corporation (BLZE). EU-Central region on their own hardware in Amsterdam, but the corporate entity's US anchor puts contracts under the CLOUD Act.
- BugsnagError trackingred
Bugsnag was acquired by SmartBear (US) in 2021. EU region available on Enterprise plans; the US contracting entity is what the CLOUD Act reaches.
- ChecklyMonitoringred
Checkly Inc. is US-incorporated (Boston HQ); Checkly GmbH is the German affiliate for engineering ops but not the contracting entity. Synthetic monitoring on AWS with EU region; the US corporate anchor stands.
- CircleCICI / CDred
Delaware corporation on AWS and GCP US regions. No EU cloud tenancy option; the 2023 incident disclosure confirmed all customer secrets sit in US-controlled stores.
- ClerkAuthred
Delaware corporation on AWS. EU region added in 2024 for Business+ plans; the entity is US and support staff sit in the US.
- ClickHouse CloudDatabasered
Delaware corporation running on all three hyperscalers. EU regions available; the US contracting entity plus hyperscaler dependencies both apply CLOUD Act exposure.
- CloudflareCDNred
US-incorporated (Cloudflare, Inc.); the Data Localization Suite is a meaningful mitigation on the data-location + processing dimensions, but the parent-jurisdiction fact is unchanged and the CLOUD Act still reaches the entity. Overall red by the "worst dimension wins" rule.
- Amazon CloudFrontCDNred
CloudFront inherits AWS's exposure: EU-region pinning is possible for cached content, but the corporate anchor is Amazon.com, Inc. (US).
- CockroachDB CloudDatabasered
Delaware corporation. Serverless and Dedicated tiers run on AWS / GCP / Azure. EU regions available; the corporate entity's US anchor remains.
- Couchbase CapellaDatabasered
NASDAQ-listed US corporation (BASE). Capella cloud runs on all three hyperscalers with EU region options; the US corporate anchor remains.
- DatadogMonitoringred
NASDAQ-listed US corporation. EU1 site is on AWS Frankfurt but ingest, alerting, and support operations are US-anchored. Logs, traces, metrics all subject to CLOUD Act at the entity.
- DigitalOceanHosting / cloudred
NYSE-listed US corporation (DOCN). Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and London regions available; the Delaware entity anchors CLOUD Act exposure regardless of droplet location.
- DiscordCommunicationred
Delaware corporation running on Google Cloud US regions. No EU tenancy option; every message and voice payload transits US infrastructure by design.
- FastlyCDNred
NYSE-listed US corporation (FSLY). Global edge network but the corporate entity and control plane are US-based, so CLOUD Act applies to logs and any origin-shielding.
- FirebaseBackend-as-a-servicered
Google LLC contracting entity, Alphabet parent, runs on GCP — a US hyperscaler that is itself a US-owned control plane. CLOUD Act reach is direct and unmitigated by region choice.
- Fly.ioHosting / cloudred
Delaware corporation, operates its own global edge-container network. EU regions (Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Madrid) available; the contracting entity's US anchor stands.
- Google Cloud PlatformHosting / cloudred
Google Ireland Limited signs the DPA but is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. (US). CLOUD Act applies to the parent, not the signing entity.
- Google Cloud StorageObject storagered
Google Cloud Storage inherits GCP's exposure: the Irish contracting entity's ultimate parent (Alphabet Inc.) is US. Multi-region EU buckets do not shield from the CLOUD Act.
- GitHub ActionsCI / CDred
GitHub, Inc. is a Microsoft subsidiary; both are US corporations. Actions runners live on Azure — jurisdiction, control plane, and secrets storage all sit under US law.
- GitLab CI (SaaS)CI / CDred
GitLab.com is a Delaware corporation on GCP US regions. Self-managed GitLab on EU-hosted infrastructure avoids all of this exposure entirely — many teams pick that path for sovereignty.
- Google AnalyticsAnalyticsred
Google Ireland Limited is the EU contracting entity for EU customers, but Alphabet's US jurisdiction reaches through it. Multiple EU DPAs have ruled GA4 fails Schrems II under DPF.
- Grafana CloudMonitoringred
Grafana Labs is Delaware-incorporated even though a large share of engineering is in Sweden. EU region on AWS Frankfurt available; the contracting entity anchors CLOUD Act exposure.
- GroqAI / LLMred
Delaware corporation running its own LPU hardware in US datacenters. Fast inference, but the jurisdiction is unchanged from any US LLM provider.
- HoneycombMonitoringred
Delaware corporation (dba Honeycomb.io). EU region on AWS Ireland is available; the US entity and the AWS EMEA hyperscaler dependency both apply.
- Hugging FaceAI / LLMred
Delaware corporation with French engineering roots and Paris office; Inference Endpoints and Spaces run on AWS regions. EU region available; the US contracting entity remains.
- Lemon SqueezyPaymentsred
Acquired by Stripe in July 2024; ultimate parent is now Stripe, Inc. (Delaware). US LLC on AWS US regions. Same CLOUD Act exposure as Stripe itself.
- Linode (Akamai)Hosting / cloudred
Acquired by Akamai in 2022; Linode LLC's ultimate parent is Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM). EU regions (Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Stockholm) available; the US anchor stands.
- LiveKitCommunicationred
Delaware corporation, WebRTC SFU cloud on AWS. Global edge but US contracting entity; self-hosted LiveKit OSS is the sovereign path.
- LogRocketError trackingred
Delaware corporation on AWS. Session-replay tool captures full user sessions; EU region available but the US contracting entity has direct CLOUD Act exposure.
- MailgunEmailred
Ultimate parent Sinch AB is Swedish, but Mailgun's contracting entity remains a Delaware corporation that must comply with the CLOUD Act regardless. EU region available but shared US infrastructure remains.
- MixpanelAnalyticsred
Delaware corporation on Google Cloud, EU residency available on higher plans. US and Indian operational access is standard for the Cloud tier.
- MongoDB AtlasDatabasered
NASDAQ-listed US corporation (MDB). Atlas runs on all three hyperscalers with EU region options; the US contracting entity and US-listed parent anchor CLOUD Act exposure.
- MuxCommunicationred
Delaware corporation, video streaming API on AWS + GCP. Global CDN delivery but the origin encoding + control plane are US-jurisdictional.
- NeonDatabasered
Acquired by Databricks in May 2025; ultimate parent is now a Delaware corporation. EU-Central region on AWS Frankfurt available; the US entity anchor stands.
- New RelicMonitoringred
Delaware corporation, private since Francisco Partners' 2023 take-private. EU region on AWS Dublin available; the contracting entity remains US.
- OpenAIAI / LLMred
US LLC running on Microsoft Azure US regions. Zero-data-retention API mode reduces retention risk but does not change jurisdiction — inference still runs on US-controlled infrastructure.
- Ory NetworkAuthred
Ory Corp is a Delaware C-corp with engineering presence in Munich; Ory Germany GmbH is the EEA GDPR representative, not the contracting entity. Ory Network Cloud has an EU region but the corporate anchor is US.
- PagerDutyMonitoringred
NYSE-listed US corporation (PD). Incident response platform on AWS with EU-region option; the contracting entity's US anchor stands.
- PayPalPaymentsred
PayPal Europe is Luxembourg-licensed as a bank, but ultimate parent PayPal Holdings, Inc. is US-listed. CLOUD Act exposure follows the parent, not the EU banking licence.
- PerplexityAI / LLMred
Delaware corporation running on AWS US regions. Search + LLM API; no EU tenancy option, and every query transits US infrastructure by design.
- PlanetScaleDatabasered
Delaware corporation on AWS, EU-West-1 region available. Contracting entity's US anchor keeps CLOUD Act exposure regardless of chosen region.
- PostHogAnalyticsred
Delaware-incorporated with London ops; EU region on AWS Frankfurt available. Self-hostable OSS avoids the exposure entirely; the Cloud offering does not.
- PostmarkEmailred
Postmark (Wildbit) was acquired by ActiveCampaign in 2022. Contracting entity and infrastructure are US-only; no EU region option. Every message body transits US datacenters.
- Cloudflare R2Object storagered
R2 is a Cloudflare-operated object store. Location hints can pin data to EU jurisdictions, but Cloudflare, Inc. is Delaware-incorporated and subject to the CLOUD Act.
- Redis CloudDatabasered
US-incorporated (Delaware), operates via Redis Labs Ltd (US corp) with Israeli engineering office. Cloud service runs on the three hyperscalers with EU regions available.
- RenderHosting / cloudred
Delaware corporation running on GCP. Frankfurt region for EU customers; the US contracting entity plus GCP subprocessor apply CLOUD Act exposure regardless.
- ReplicateAI / LLMred
Delaware corporation running on Google Cloud US regions. Model-inference API for open-source models; every request transits US infrastructure.
- ResendEmailred
Resend, Inc. is Delaware-incorporated and subject to the CLOUD Act. EU region is available on paid plans but runs on AWS, and support staff are US-based.
- RollbarError trackingred
US corporation running on AWS US-East. No EU regional option — every event payload transits the US, which the CLOUD Act reaches directly.
- Amazon S3Object storagered
Amazon S3 inherits AWS's exposure: the Luxembourg contracting entity's ultimate parent (Amazon.com, Inc.) is US-incorporated, so an S3 EU-region bucket is still reachable under the CLOUD Act.
- SendGrid (Twilio)Emailred
SendGrid is a Twilio product; contracting entity is Twilio Inc. (Delaware) and subject to the CLOUD Act. An EU regional address is available but does not shield the parent's jurisdiction.
- SentryError trackingred
Delaware corp; EU region on Google Cloud Frankfurt is available on Business plans. Contracting entity remains US-based and stack traces / event payloads reach it.
- SlackCommunicationred
Slack is a Salesforce subsidiary — both entities are US-incorporated. EU Data Residency add-on pins message storage to Frankfurt but does not remove parent jurisdiction.
- Statuspage (Atlassian)Monitoringred
Statuspage is an Atlassian product; ultimate parent Atlassian Corporation is Delaware-listed (moved from UK in 2022) despite the Australian operational entity. Hosted on AWS US.
- StripePaymentsred
Stripe Payments Europe (Dublin) signs European customer contracts but is a subsidiary of Stripe, Inc. (Delaware). CLOUD Act reach applies to the parent.
- StytchAuthred
Delaware corporation on AWS US regions. Passwordless auth API without an EU tenancy option; every session token and user record transits US infrastructure.
- SupabaseBackend-as-a-servicered
Contracting entity Supabase, Inc. is US-incorporated and subject to the CLOUD Act regardless of the EU region configured; runs on AWS as sole hyperscaler subprocessor.
- Timescale CloudDatabasered
Delaware corporation running on AWS. Managed TimescaleDB / PostgreSQL with EU-Central and EU-West regions; the US contracting entity puts it under the CLOUD Act regardless.
- Together AIAI / LLMred
US corporation offering open-model inference. Runs on Together's own GPU clusters (subprocessor chain is clean) but the corporate entity and datacenters are US-based.
- TwilioCommunicationred
NYSE-listed US corporation (TWLO). EU regional endpoint on AWS Ireland exists; message bodies and CDRs still transit a US-controlled contracting entity.
- VercelHosting / cloudred
Vercel Inc. (US) contracting entity, runs on AWS (US-owned control plane). EU region is available for edge caching but the platform's control plane is US-jurisdictional.
- WasabiObject storagered
Delaware corporation with EU regions in Amsterdam, London, and Paris. Pinning a bucket to EU-Central still leaves the contracting entity subject to the CLOUD Act.
- WorkOSAuthred
Delaware corporation running on AWS US regions. No EU tenancy option today; SSO / SCIM traffic transits US infrastructure.
- YugabyteDB ManagedDatabasered
Delaware corporation running on all three hyperscalers. Distributed SQL with EU region options; US contracting entity anchors the exposure.
- AblyCommunicationamber
UK limited company (London HQ), realtime pub-sub over WebSockets. Global edge on AWS regions; UK adequacy covers transfers.
- AivenDatabaseamber
Finnish OY, EU-hosted contracting entity and EU-only support ops. Runs on AWS / GCP / Azure — so the underlying hyperscaler's exposure cascades in, but the Finnish anchor sets it apart from pure-US managed-DB vendors.
- AlgoliaOtheramber
French SAS (Paris HQ), search-as-a-service on AWS + GCP regions. EU option available; hyperscaler subprocessor drags chain to amber.
- Bird (MessageBird)Communicationamber
Dutch B.V. (rebranded from MessageBird 2023). Amsterdam HQ, EU-only support ops. SMS, voice, and CRM cloud runs on AWS regions; EU pinning brings data location to amber.
- BuildkiteCI / CDamber
Australian Pty Ltd; control plane on AWS. Because Buildkite's model runs agents on your own infrastructure, build artifacts and code can stay in your EU environment even though the control plane does not.
- Checkout.comPaymentsamber
UK limited company (London HQ), FCA-regulated payment institution. Global card acquiring with EU-region hosting on AWS. UK adequacy covers transfers.
- CohereAI / LLMamber
Canadian corporation (Toronto HQ), covered by the EU-Canada adequacy decision. Runs on AWS and GCP; not subject to the CLOUD Act, but hyperscaler subprocessors do carry exposure.
- Fathom AnalyticsAnalyticsamber
Canadian entity (BC), covered by the EU-Canada adequacy decision. Not subject to the CLOUD Act, but Canadian production access still counts as a cross-border transfer.
- GoCardlessPaymentsamber
UK limited company, EU-Ireland AWS hosting. UK adequacy decision covers transfers so no SCCs needed. AWS EMEA dependency drags subprocessor chain to amber.
- KindeAuthamber
Australian Pty Ltd — not subject to the CLOUD Act, but Australia has no EU adequacy decision. EU region on AWS reduces data-location risk; entity risk sits with Australian law.
- Matomo CloudAnalyticsamber
New Zealand Ltd (InnoCraft); Matomo Cloud EU customers land on Frankfurt hosting. NZ has an EU adequacy decision. Not subject to the CLOUD Act; the NZ parent-jurisdiction adds mild exposure.
- Meilisearch CloudOtheramber
French SAS (Paris HQ), open-source search engine with a managed cloud offering on AWS. EU region available; the Meili SAS anchor is French.
- NhostBackend-as-a-serviceamber
Swedish AB, EU-only operational access. Runs on AWS regions worldwide; pinning EU keeps data location safe, but AWS EMEA subprocessor drags the chain to amber.
- PaddlePaymentsamber
UK limited company, EU-Ireland hosting on AWS. UK adequacy decision covers transfers, so no SCCs needed. AWS EMEA dependency drags subprocessor chain to amber.
- RaygunError trackingamber
New Zealand Ltd, covered by the EU-NZ adequacy decision. Not subject to the CLOUD Act; runs on AWS with EU-Frankfurt region option. NZ operational access adds mild exposure.
- SinchCommunicationamber
Swedish AB publicly listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. Ultimate parent is EU; some infrastructure rides on AWS, some on Sinch's own network. Route-dependent — check per product line.
- TeamCity Cloud (JetBrains)CI / CDamber
Czech s.r.o. (Prague HQ), EU-only support ops. TeamCity Cloud runs on AWS regions; pinning EU brings location to amber but the entity anchor is EU-adequate throughout.
- AdyenPaymentsgreen
Dutch N.V. publicly listed on Euronext Amsterdam. Regulated as a bank by DNB; operates its own core payments infrastructure. No US corporate control.
- Aleph AlphaAI / LLMgreen
German GmbH headquartered in Heidelberg. Trains and serves Luminous / Pharia models on its own EU infrastructure. Explicitly positioned as the sovereign-AI provider for regulated EU buyers (public sector, banking, defence).
- Brevo (Sendinblue)Emailgreen
French SAS (rebranded from Sendinblue in 2023), datacentres in France and Germany. No US corporate control; EU-only operations.
- Bunny.netCDNgreen
Slovenian d.o.o., no US parent or subsidiary in the chain. Edge network is global but the contracting entity and control plane sit inside the EU.
- CodemagicCI / CDgreen
Estonian Ltd (Nevercode), operates its own EU build fleet for mobile CI/CD. No US corporate entity in the chain.
- EurobaseBackend-as-a-servicegreen
Estonian OÜ, EU-hosted on Scaleway (France), EU payments via Mollie (Netherlands). No US entity, no US processor, no data transfer requiring SCCs or TIA.
- ExoscaleHosting / cloudgreen
Swiss SA (Akenes / Exoscale), ultimate parent A1 Digital is Austrian (part of the Austrian Telekom Group). Datacentres in Geneva, Zurich, Vienna, Frankfurt, Sofia.
- GatewayAPICommunicationgreen
Danish ApS, servers and operations in Denmark. SMS and voice with Danish contracting entity — no US corporate control anywhere in the chain.
- HetznerHosting / cloudgreen
German GmbH, privately owned, datacentres in Germany and Finland. No US corporate control. Cloud, dedicated servers, and storage all covered.
- InfobipCommunicationgreen
Croatian Ltd (Vodnjan HQ), private, operates its own global SMS + omnichannel network. EU contracting entity for EU customers; no US corporate control.
- IONOSHosting / cloudgreen
German SE, publicly listed on Frankfurt Stock Exchange (United Internet AG majority shareholder). Datacentres in Germany, UK, Spain, US. Explicitly positioned as sovereign cloud provider for German public sector.
- KeyCDNCDNgreen
Swiss LLC (proinity), no US corporate ownership. Switzerland holds an EU adequacy decision so transfers are lawful without SCCs; edge PoPs are worldwide but the anchor is Zurich.
- KlarnaPaymentsgreen
Swedish AB, licensed as a bank by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen). BNPL and payment processing under Swedish jurisdiction; no US corporate anchor.
- MailjetEmailgreen
French SAS with a Swedish parent (Sinch AB); infrastructure in France and Belgium, operations EU-only. No US corporate entity in the chain.
- Mistral AIAI / LLMgreen
French SAS; La Plateforme (Mistral's own inference platform) runs in EU regions. No US corporate control over the contracting entity.
- MolliePaymentsgreen
Dutch B.V., privately owned, EU-hosted, EU-operated. Card + iDEAL + SEPA processing without a US payment schemes intermediary in the contract path.
- OVHcloudHosting / cloudgreen
French SAS, ultimate parent OVH Groupe SA (publicly listed on Euronext Paris). Datacentres in Roubaix, Gravelines, Strasbourg, Frankfurt, Warsaw. No US corporate control.
- Plausible AnalyticsAnalyticsgreen
Estonian OÜ, servers in Germany (Hetzner), remote team but no US corporate entity anywhere. Explicitly built as a GDPR-first alternative to Google Analytics.
- ScalewayHosting / cloudgreen
French SAS, ultimate parent Iliad (publicly listed on Euronext Paris), datacentres and operations in France, Netherlands, and Poland. No US corporate control anywhere in the chain.
- Simple AnalyticsAnalyticsgreen
Dutch BV, servers in the Netherlands. Cookie-free, GDPR-first alternative to Google Analytics with no US corporate entity in the chain.
- UpCloudHosting / cloudgreen
Finnish Ltd, private, EU-headquartered with datacentres across Helsinki, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Madrid, Warsaw. No US corporate ownership.