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title: "Digital sovereignty: location, jurisdiction, technology"
description: "What digital sovereignty means for your infrastructure and how Biberstack delivers it: hosting in Germany, a German contract partner and open-source technology."
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publisher:
  name: "Biberstack (encircle360 GmbH)"
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  phone: "+49 214 736999-80"
  address: "Petersbergstraße 72, 51375 Leverkusen, DE"
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Digital sovereignty

# You decide where your data lives.

Digital sovereignty means control over three things: where your data is stored, which law applies to it and which technology you depend on. Biberstack is built around these three questions.

## Three pillars of digital sovereignty

### Location

Your workloads and data run on infrastructure in Germany, inside the European Union.

### Jurisdiction

Your contract partner is encircle360 GmbH, an owner-led company based in Leverkusen, Germany, without a US parent company.

### Technology

Kubernetes, Keycloak and the applications we operate are open source. You are not tied to proprietary services and can take your workloads with you.

## Biberstack compared with typical US cloud providers

Hyperscalers offer a broad range of services. Where sovereignty matters, these differences count.

| Aspect | Typical US cloud provider | Biberstack |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Company domicile | United States | Germany |
| Applicable law | US law can apply, including the CLOUD Act | German and EU law |
| Technology | Often proprietary managed services | Open source and open standards |
| Switching provider | Proprietary APIs increase switching costs | Standard interfaces keep workloads portable |

## Regulation asks the same questions

Data protection and security regulations increasingly require you to know where data is processed and who can access it.

### GDPR

Personal data in the EU, processed by a contract partner under EU law, with a data processing agreement in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR.

### NIS2

Many companies must manage risks in their supply chain, including their IT service providers. A provider in Germany simplifies that assessment.

## Tell us what you want to run.

Describe your project in a few minutes. You receive an offer tailored to your requirements.

[Request a quote](https://biberstack.com/en/request-a-quote)

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## About Biberstack

Biberstack operates Managed Kubernetes, Managed Keycloak, VPS, dedicated servers, colocation and open-source applications, hosted in Germany. Biberstack is a brand of encircle360 GmbH, an owner-led company based in Leverkusen, Germany.

- **Products:** [Managed Kubernetes](https://biberstack.com/en/products/managed-kubernetes) · [Managed Keycloak](https://biberstack.com/en/products/managed-keycloak) · [VPS](https://biberstack.com/en/products/vps) · [Dedicated servers](https://biberstack.com/en/products/dedicated-servers) · [Colocation](https://biberstack.com/en/products/colocation) · [Open-source applications](https://biberstack.com/en/products/open-source-applications)
- **Contact:** hello@encircle360.com · +49 214 736999-80 · [biberstack.com](https://biberstack.com)
- **Address:** encircle360 GmbH, Petersbergstraße 72, 51375 Leverkusen, Germany

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