European alternatives to Confluence

Atlassian's team-wiki and documentation tool, the knowledge base paired with Jira. US-region AWS hosting, outside GDPR by default.

Company information about Confluence
Company
Atlassian Corporation
Headquarters
Sydney, United States
Founded
2004
Data jurisdiction
United States
Ownership
Publicly traded
GDPR
No
Open source
No
Infrastructure
Amazon AWS

Why people switch away from Confluence

Subject to US CLOUD ActProfit-driven (public markets)Proprietary softwareRuns on Big Tech infrastructureNot covered by GDPR

European alternatives to Confluence

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France 100 · Certified European

French open-source enterprise wiki founded in 2004 in Paris. Used by Amazon, Lenovo, and governments across Europe for knowledge management and collaboration. Self-hostable with full data sovereignty. Also the company behind CryptPad.

Open-core · from Free Free tier Open source Bootstrapped Own infrastructure EU

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Why avoid United States-owned services?

CLOUD Act

Forces US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world upon government request, including data on European servers.

FISA Section 702

Authorises mass surveillance of non-US persons using data held by US tech platforms, without a warrant or notification.

GDPR vs US law conflict

EU courts have repeatedly found that US surveillance law conflicts with European fundamental rights. Schrems I and II both invalidated EU-US data transfer agreements.

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