European Cloud Provider — AWS & Azure, EU-Resident, GDPR-Native

GDPR compliance is not a property of the cloud provider — it's a property of your deployment architecture, contracts, and operational processes. That said, the structural features that make a European MSP GDPR-safe are: (1) EU-incorporated entity signing the DPA, (2) engineers located inside the EU for support access, (3) primary and DR regions both inside the EU, (4) no parent company subject to the US CLOUD Act. Opsio meets all four. Several 'European' providers are actually US-headquartered and fail criterion 4.

AWS eu-north-1 has three availability zones, each a cluster of data centers in Sweden (officially undisclosed, but industry-known to be around Stockholm and nearby). Data at rest stays in the region unless you explicitly configure cross-region replication. We configure lifecycle policies and S3 replication rules to make data exit impossible without an explicit architecture change — visible in your Terraform code, auditable.

Essential and important entities must now notify significant cyber incidents within 24 hours of detection (early warning) and 72 hours (full report). Board members are personally liable for cybersecurity failures. The Swedish implementation (Cyber Security Act) mirrors the EU directive closely but designates the MSB as the competent authority and the CERT-SE as the CSIRT. We help customers map their obligations, implement the required controls, and build the evidence package for their annual supervisory inspection.

Depends on the data-flow surface area. If your US MSP has any access to your EU-resident data (for support, monitoring, or deployment), you are still making a Schrems II cross-border transfer — the data location is necessary but not sufficient. An EU-based MSP closes this gap because support, monitoring, and operator access all stay inside the EU. For US SaaS with more than a handful of EU customers, the operational simplicity of 'EU data, EU operators' often wins over 'US operators, EU storage'.

A US MSP with a London or Dublin branch still has a US parent subject to the CLOUD Act, US subpoena jurisdiction, and in many cases a US customer-data-access policy that applies globally. Opsio's parent is Swedish. All engineers are EU residents. No US subsidiaries. For customers whose procurement teams ask 'does this provider have any US ownership or operational exposure?', the answer for us is a clean no.

Yes. We implement technical supplementary measures (EDPB Recommendations 01/2020) so that your EU data flows are defensible regardless of what happens to the DPF. Typical controls include: encryption with EU-held keys (AWS KMS in eu-north-1, Azure Key Vault in Sweden Central), split processing so no single US sub-processor sees complete personal data, and strict access controls preventing US-based personnel from accessing EU production systems. We deliver the DPIA and TIA documentation alongside the technical implementation.

Fixed monthly platform fee in EUR or USD, plus passthrough AWS or Azure consumption billed directly to you by the hyperscaler. Typical mid-market US SaaS (GMV $10M-$100M, ~150 employees) runs $8,000-$22,000/month all-in for our services. Contracts are in English under Swedish law; paid to a Nordic bank account. No India sub-processing unless you specifically request it.

Gaia-X is a federated data-infrastructure initiative, not a cloud provider. We implement Gaia-X-compatible architectures for customers whose EU public-sector contracts require it (typically German Bundeslaender and French state agencies). Separately, AWS European Sovereign Cloud (launching 2026 in Germany) and Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty are viable paths if full operator-sovereignty is required — we work with both. For most private-sector customers, eu-north-1 with strong contractual and technical controls is sufficient and 40-50% cheaper.