Is Production Board subject to the CLOUD Act?

No. The CLOUD Act compels US-based companies (or US subsidiaries) to hand over data they control, regardless of where it physically lives. Production Board has no US entity, no US contracts, and no US-controlled infrastructure in the data plane. Stripe processes payment data and is US-headquartered, but that boundary is well-defined: payment metadata only, never your records.

Where exactly is my data stored?

On dedicated servers we operate ourselves, physically located in Germany. The audit log, attachments, embeddings - everything in the data plane - lives there. Backups stay within the same EU jurisdiction in different physical locations and roll off on a 30-day window. We deliberately do not name the exact data centre - knowing the rack does not buy the customer anything and would make operator changes a public event.

Do you log IPs or session metadata to a US service?

No third-party analytics, no Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no third-country tag manager. The first-party device + session ledger lives in our own Postgres + Redis - same EU boundary as the rest of the data plane. Logs are operational only and rotate at 30 days.

What happens if I'm a customer outside the EU?

You can use Production Board from anywhere. The data still lives in the EU; the request travels from your location to our servers and back. That's a posture choice on our side, not a geo-restriction on yours.

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Production Board: the EU alternative to Jira

Same job, hosted in the EU. Production Board runs in Germany under German law - your data stays in EU jurisdiction end to end.

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Finn GlasCo-Founder + Engineering

·February 2, 2026·

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If your reason for moving off Jira is data sovereignty, the comparison gets simpler. Production Board is hosted in Germany on infrastructure we operate ourselves - no US-headquartered company in the request path. The CLOUD Act does not reach what physically lives here.

At a glance

Jira is the standard for engineering tickets at scale - custom workflows, advanced JQL search, an ecosystem of plugins, and a learning curve to match. Production Board is the opposite shape: opinionated, fast, production-flavoured, and small enough for a single team to set up in an afternoon. The honest split: pick Jira when you have an admin who maintains it; pick us when you don't want one.

EU jurisdiction

What 'EU-hosted' actually means here, end to end

Production Board runs on dedicated machines we operate ourselves, physically located in Germany. There is no US-headquartered subprocessor in the request path - the data plane (your records, your files, your audit log) lives entirely in EU jurisdiction. Two third parties exist outside that boundary: Stripe (payment information only, under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework) and the mail relay for transactional email. Neither sees your records. Jira's setup is the variable - if their primary infra is US-based, the CLOUD Act applies regardless of what their privacy page claims.

Production Board vs Jira: EU comparison

	Ours Production Board	Theirs Jira
Hosted in Germany		EU regions available
Custom workflows + statuses	Per-board basics
Production-shaped phases		DIY
Live multi-tab updates
Plugin ecosystem
Setup in an afternoon
Free tier		Free up to 10 users

When to pick which

Pick Production Board when

A single production team that wants the board out of the way and the work in front.

Nobody on the team wants to be the Jira admin.

Pick Jira when

Engineering or IT ops at 30+ people with real workflow + permission complexity.

You already have a Jira admin and it works.

EU-jurisdiction questions

Specific to where the data lives, who can subpoena it, and what crosses borders.

Start with Production Board

Free plan, no credit card. We host in Germany. Export + delete are self-serve.

Written by

Finn Glas

Co-Founder + Engineering

Finn is one of the Co-Founders. He owns the engineering side, the infrastructure, and most of the late-night fixes that ship before anyone notices.

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