Infrastructure and developer tools
European identity and access management (IAM) services
Single sign-on run under European jurisdiction
An identity and access management service holds your user accounts and decides what each of them may reach. Its main job in practice is single sign-on: one login gives a person access to many applications, through a redirect to a central login page that returns a signed token. Standards such as OAuth, OpenID Connect and SAML make that work across products from different vendors.
An IAM system holds names, email addresses, group memberships and a full record of who logged in from where, which is about as sensitive as an internal directory gets. ZITADEL, cidaas and Keycloak are European entries, and some can be self hosted. Standards based protocols are what make a European alternative for single sign-on practical: your applications keep working if you change provider.
European options
| service | Country | Hosting | Open source | Free plan | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | EU controlled | |||
| Self-hosted | ✓ | — |
Scaleway
Cloud computing platform from France
Scaleway is a French cloud provider with a broad catalogue. Its public cloud, Scaleway Elements, offers virtual servers, S3-compatible object storage, DNS and VPC, plus managed services such as Kubernetes and managed MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. The company also rents dedicated servers and whole racks in its data centres.
Self-hosted and open source
Open source projects you can run yourself. Not necessarily made in Europe, but nobody else holds your data.
Services without verified European control
Kept here for transparency, but excluded from the European options and totals. How we classify services →
Cloud IAM
Managed Keycloak hosting from France
cidaas
Managed customer and workforce identity from Germany
Bare.ID
Keycloak-based identity management with German SaaS hosting
ZITADEL
Open source identity and access management from Switzerland
Hanko
Open source authentication and passkeys from Germany
Quasr
Identity and access management from Belgium
Login-Master
Managed Keycloak hosting and support from Germany