European-only alternative to OneDrive.

OneDrive came with your Microsoft 365 licence, and over the years it became where the company keeps its files. It is operated by Microsoft Corporation, a US company. Binadit Drive does the same job from the Netherlands, on our own hardware, as a Dutch company with no foreign parent: shared folders, sharing links, version history and desktop sync.

United States EU-only replacement stack 8 services mapped

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Provider: OneDrive
Headquarters: Redmond, WA (Microsoft)
Jurisdiction: United States
Legal regime: CLOUD Act, FISA 702

"EU region" is not sovereignty. Four questions decide it.

Data residency tells you where the bits sit. Sovereignty tells you which legal system can compel access. The answer must hold on all four - or the stack is not sovereign.

Residency

Where is the data physically stored?

Not "in the cloud" - which datacenter, in which country, under which jurisdiction.

Subprocessors

Who else is in your data path?

Every vendor that touches the data: the CDN, the email relay, the error tracker, the analytics pipe.

Jurisdiction

Whose laws can compel disclosure?

A US-headquartered provider falls under FISA 702 and the CLOUD Act - even when the bits sit in Frankfurt.

Key custody

Who actually holds the encryption keys?

If the cloud provider holds both the data and the keys, the data is readable by them - regardless of any DPA.

Fails AWS · Azure · GCP · EU region

Fails on jurisdiction and key custody.

EU bits, US-headquartered parent, US subprocessors in the default path, provider-managed keys.

Passes Binadit managed stack

Passes on all four.

EU-hosted on EU-headquartered infrastructure. Zero US subprocessors in the default path. Customer-held or EU-KMS keys. Listed by name in your Article 28 DPA.

Why teams are exiting OneDrive

Files are personal data as much as email is, and usually more of it. Storing them with Microsoft is a transfer to a US company, lawful today because of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which is under appeal before the court that struck down its two predecessors. The US CLOUD Act reaches data a US provider controls wherever it is stored. Asked under oath by the French Senate in June 2025 whether Microsoft could guarantee that data would never be handed over without French consent, the director of public and legal affairs of Microsoft France answered that he could not.

OneDrive services and their EU-only equivalents

Binadit Drive is file storage and sharing. It replaces the part of OneDrive and SharePoint that is about files, and it is honest about the part that is not.

OneDrive service	What we run instead	Engineering note
OneDrive for Business	Personal file space in Binadit Drive.	Files move with their folder structure.
SharePoint document libraries	Shared folders for teams and departments.	Who may see what is set up with you. A move is also the moment to clean that up.
Files shared in Teams channels	Shared folders in Binadit Drive.	Files in a Teams channel are stored in SharePoint underneath, so they move like any other library.
Sharing links	Sharing links to a file or a folder, for colleagues and for people outside your company.	You share with a link, the same way you do now.
Version history	Versioning: earlier versions of a file are kept and can be restored.	The same safety net, for the same files.
OneDrive sync client	Desktop sync: your folders appear on your computer and stay in step.	People keep working from their file manager the way they do now.
Word, Excel and PowerPoint files	The same files, unchanged.	They are already ordinary office files. They open in the office software on your computer exactly as before.
Copilot across your files	Not replaced, on purpose. We do not train on your data and no model reads your files.	Your data is yours. We host it, we do not learn from it.

OneDrive for Business

What we run instead: Personal file space in Binadit Drive.
Engineering note: Files move with their folder structure.

SharePoint document libraries

What we run instead: Shared folders for teams and departments.
Engineering note: Who may see what is set up with you. A move is also the moment to clean that up.

Files shared in Teams channels

What we run instead: Shared folders in Binadit Drive.
Engineering note: Files in a Teams channel are stored in SharePoint underneath, so they move like any other library.

Sharing links

What we run instead: Sharing links to a file or a folder, for colleagues and for people outside your company.
Engineering note: You share with a link, the same way you do now.

Version history

What we run instead: Versioning: earlier versions of a file are kept and can be restored.
Engineering note: The same safety net, for the same files.

OneDrive sync client

What we run instead: Desktop sync: your folders appear on your computer and stay in step.
Engineering note: People keep working from their file manager the way they do now.

Word, Excel and PowerPoint files

What we run instead: The same files, unchanged.
Engineering note: They are already ordinary office files. They open in the office software on your computer exactly as before.

Copilot across your files

What we run instead: Not replaced, on purpose. We do not train on your data and no model reads your files.
Engineering note: Your data is yours. We host it, we do not learn from it.

How we migrate off OneDrive

We move your files out of OneDrive and SharePoint and keep both sides running until you are ready to switch. If your mail is in Microsoft 365 too, it moves in the same project.

Before the move

We map what you have

How much there is, how it is organised, which libraries are shared and with whom. You get a fixed migration price and a date.
Side by side

Files are copied while everybody keeps working

We copy the files to Binadit Drive with their folder structure. OneDrive stays in use, so nobody is blocked and nothing is lost if we need another pass.
Switch day

People start working from Binadit Drive

A final sync picks up what changed, desktop sync is switched over, and the Microsoft side can be closed once you have checked that everything is there.

Tell us how much storage you need and how many people work with it. You get a fixed monthly price and a fixed migration price, not a calculator.

Frequently asked questions

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Is OneDrive GDPR-compliant with the EU Data Boundary?

Today, yes, because Microsoft is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The EU Data Boundary is about where Microsoft stores and processes data. It does not change that Microsoft is a US company, and under the CLOUD Act a US provider must produce data under its control when a US authority orders it to, wherever that data is stored.

Do our Word and Excel files keep working?

Yes. They are ordinary files. They open in the office software on your computer exactly as they do now.

Can we leave OneDrive and keep Outlook?

Yes. Files and mail are separate. You can move files first, mail first, or both in one project, and Outlook keeps working with a mailbox hosted in the Netherlands.

Can people outside our company still open what we share?

Yes. You share a file or a folder with a link, the same way you do now.

What happens to documents people edit together in the browser?

The files stay what they are and open in the office software on your computer. If working in one document at the same time in the browser is central to how your team works, tell us before the move so we can look at that honestly together.

The rest of the suite

Email, calendar and files usually move together. These are the other pieces.

Plan your exit from OneDrive.

30-minute scoping call. We map your stack against EU-only alternatives, estimate the migration effort, and tell you whether it is the right call.

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