Sensative vs AWS IoT
Sensative is a European alternative to AWS IoT: same cloud & hosting use case, headquartered in Sweden and operating under GDPR by default, while AWS IoT (Amazon) is based in the United States.
By the EU Alternatives team Last updated
- Jurisdiction
- EU / EEA
- GDPR by default
- Yes
- US CLOUD Act exposure
- No
- Open source
- No
- Free tier
- No
AWS IoT by Amazon.
- Jurisdiction
- US
- GDPR by default
- Requires DPA + TIA
- US CLOUD Act exposure
- Yes
Sensative vs AWS IoT at a glance
| Sensative | AWS IoT | |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | Sweden | US |
| Data jurisdiction | EU / EEA | US law applies |
| GDPR by default | Yes | Requires DPA + transfer assessment |
| US CLOUD Act exposure | No | Yes |
| Open source | No | — |
| Free tier | No | — |
| Best for | Teams that need cloud & hosting with EU data residency | Teams already invested in the Amazon ecosystem |
Choose Sensative if…
- You want your data to stay under EU law without extra legal paperwork
- GDPR compliance or public-sector requirements apply to you
- You'd rather back the European tech ecosystem
Stick with AWS IoT if…
- You depend on integrations only available in the Amazon ecosystem
- Your organisation has no EU data-residency constraints
- Migration costs outweigh the jurisdiction benefits for now
About Sensative
Sensative builds ultra-thin IoT sensors and the Yggio integration platform that unifies devices across smart cities and PropTech, including 10-year battery life sensors and a technology-agnostic data broker. The combination turns fragmented device ecosystems into standardised, queryable data streams, letting operators monitor occupancy, air quality, leakage, and asset tracking from one normalised API.
Yggio is built on a zero-trust architecture with full data sovereignty, deployable in cloud, edge, or hybrid configurations. It speaks LoRaWAN, Z-Wave, and FIWARE standards natively, while the Ratatosk context broker harmonises legacy systems with modern IoT endpoints. Customers can swap hardware vendors without rewriting integrations.
Key benefits:
- Strips multi-sensors with 10-year battery life and modular downloadable apps
- Vendor-agnostic integration across LoRaWAN, Z-Wave, and legacy building systems
- Unified data API delivering normalised streams to any downstream application
- Flexible deployment in public cloud, private edge, or hybrid topologies
- Zero-trust architecture with full data sovereignty built in
- 500,000+ sensors deployed across European smart city and real estate projects
Sensative is headquartered in Lund, Sweden, founded in 2013, and operates entirely under EU jurisdiction with GDPR and EU Data Act compliance. Customer data remains on European infrastructure, with sovereignty-by-design principles baked into the Yggio platform architecture.
Why choose Sensative over AWS IoT?
The decisive argument is data jurisdiction. AWS IoT 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.
Sensative removes that overhead. As a Sweden-based provider, it operates natively under GDPR, and data stays inside the EU/EEA by default. For regulated sectors such as health, public administration, and 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.