Cloud IAM vs Okta
Cloud IAM is a European alternative to Okta — same security & identity use case, built under EU data-protection law.
By the EU Alternatives team Last updated
Managed Keycloak service deployed in 20 minutes — 70+ regions across 5 cloud providers, 99.95% SLA, 500+ customers, and 100% European support team.
- Jurisdiction
- EU / EEA
- GDPR by default
- Yes
- US CLOUD Act exposure
- No
- Open source
- No
- Free tier
- No
Okta by Okta.
- Jurisdiction
- US
- GDPR by default
- Requires DPA + TIA
- US CLOUD Act exposure
- Yes
About Cloud IAM
Cloud-IAM is a fully managed Keycloak service that takes the operational burden out of identity and access management. Deploy a production-grade Keycloak instance in under 20 minutes, without managing infrastructure, patches, or backups.
Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Europe, Cloud-IAM serves 500+ customers with 20M+ managed users across a 100% in-house European team. The service spans 70+ regions across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Scaleway, and Outscale — giving teams the cloud provider and data residency they need.
Key features:
- Instant deployment — fully provisioned Keycloak in 20 minutes, start for free
- Multi-cloud — 70+ regions across 5 providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Scaleway, Outscale)
- High availability — 99.95% SLA with 99.9834% measured uptime in 2025
- Standards-based — OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, and custom SPI support
- Data portability — full import/export for complete credential sovereignty
- 24/7 European support — on-call team based entirely in Europe
- Compliance — ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, NIS 2, HDS, SecNumCloud 3.2
Built on Keycloak (Red Hat-backed open source), Cloud-IAM adds enterprise reliability, SLA guarantees, and European support without the ops overhead.
Why choose Cloud IAM over Okta?
The decisive argument is data jurisdiction. Okta is headquartered in US, which means personal data processed through it can be subject to non-EU legal regimes — the US CLOUD Act, FISA 702, or similar laws depending on the provider. After the 2020 Schrems II ruling, EU organisations must carry out a transfer impact assessment for every such data flow.
Cloud IAM removes that overhead. As a France-based provider, it operates natively under GDPR, and data stays inside the EU/EEA by default. For regulated sectors — health, public administration, finance — that's not a nice-to-have but a requirement. For everyone else, it's concentration-risk insurance: you avoid depending on a single non-EU jurisdiction that can change the rules without warning.