StreamZilla Sovereign video hosting

Sovereign video hosting

European ownership, European law, European infrastructure, European people.

Video hosting is sovereign when the company, the law it answers to, the infrastructure it runs on and the people who operate it are all in Europe, and when you can leave whenever you want. Hosting in an EU data centre is not enough: if the provider or its parent is American, US law can still reach your data.

StreamZilla is sovereign on every one of those layers. Here is how, so you can check it.

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Out of reach of US law
No American parent company, shareholder or hyperscaler underneath, so there is no route through which the US CLOUD Act or FISA Section 702 can force access to your data.
Measured, not claimed
Self-assessed against the European Commission’s Cloud Sovereignty Framework: SEAL-4, the highest level, on seven of the eight objectives, and SEAL-3 on the remaining one.
Yours to take with you
Export your media, metadata and configuration in open formats at any time. No switching fees, no egress fees, no lock-in. Or run StreamZilla on your own servers.

Five layers of sovereignty

Ownership. StreamZilla is a service of Jet-Stream Services B.V., part of the Jet-Stream group. Every group company is a Dutch private limited company, established and managed in the Netherlands. There are no shareholders, parent companies or subsidiaries outside the European Union.
Law. Dutch and European law apply, with disputes settled by the court in Groningen. No foreign authority can compel us to hand over your data outside European legal procedures.
Infrastructure. Our own hardware in two Dutch data centres, delivered from our own IP address space, registered with RIPE since 2004. Popular videos are offloaded to Bunny.net, a Slovenian content delivery network. No American cloud anywhere in the chain.
People. Engineering, operations and support are carried out by our own staff in the Netherlands.
Exit. In line with the Data Act, you can switch provider, use several providers side by side or move to your own infrastructure, without contractual, technical or financial obstacles. Videos are delivered in open standards, HLS and CMAF, that work outside StreamZilla too.

Measured against the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework

The European Commission’s Cloud Sovereignty Framework scores providers on eight sovereignty objectives, from SEAL-0 to SEAL-4. In our self-assessment, StreamZilla reaches SEAL-4 on seven objectives and SEAL-3 on the remaining one.

This is a self-assessment, not a certification: the framework has no certification scheme, and an official SEAL level is only established by a contracting authority in a tender. That is why we provide the full, verifiable substantiation on request, so you can assess it yourself.

Or host it yourself

Some organisations want their video on their own servers. You can license StreamZilla and run it on your own infrastructure, even fully air-gapped, with the same player, subtitles and management system.

How to check any provider

Every video platform in Europe now calls itself sovereign. The proof is in the chain: who owns the owner, which networks deliver the video, what the player loads, where the statistics go. We listed eight checks you can run on any provider, us included.

Frequently asked questions

What is sovereign video hosting?

Video hosting where the company, the applicable law, the infrastructure and the people who run it are all European, and where you can take your videos and data with you at any time. Hosting in an EU data centre alone is not enough if the provider is subject to non-European law.

Is an EU data centre enough to be safe from the CLOUD Act?

No. The CLOUD Act applies to providers subject to US jurisdiction, wherever they store data. What matters is who controls the data: if that is a US company, or a company with a US parent, an EU data centre does not take it out of reach.

What is SEAL?

SEAL is the scale of the European Commission’s Cloud Sovereignty Framework, from SEAL-0 (no sovereignty) to SEAL-4 (full sovereignty), scored per objective. Public bodies use it in tenders for cloud services.

Is StreamZilla certified?

The Cloud Sovereignty Framework has no certification scheme, so our SEAL score is a self-assessment with full substantiation. Our information security management system follows ISO/IEC 27001; certification is in progress, and we do not present ourselves as certified until it is.

Does any data leave the EU?

In our standard service, all sub-processors are established in the EEA and none is subject to the jurisdiction of a third country. The full list is public on our Compliance & Legal page.

Sources

European Commission: Cloud Sovereignty Framework
Regulation (EU) 2023/2854, the Data Act
StreamZilla: Compliance & Legal

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