To remain independant, Rapid.Space relies solely on open hardware and free software. The material is free, everyone has the right to produce it, because all plans are public. In the case of Rapid.Space case, servers and networking equipment are recertified and tested in France by Splitted Desktop (now known as ITRenew). Previously these servers have been used in Europe or the United States. They were originally produced in China.
With plans being free, nothing prevents a European server manufacturer from producing the same servers or the same network equivalent. This is done for example by Stordis, a German company specialising in network equipment. It could be achieved by Olimex, which has the equipment in Bulgaria and is the leading European producer of open hardware equipment.
The major difference between Rapid.Space and other cloud operators is that Rapid.Space uses only open hardware, that is, hardware that does not create a single-vendor dependency. Most other operators use proprietary hardware, especially for the network part.
Rapid.Space also uses free software exclusively. All routing relies on the technology babel and re6st. This choice permits to not having to depend on any routing provider unlike other operators.
SlapOS, the free software for managing Rapid.Space, was created in France. It is today the only free software for managing a cloud from A to Z: IaaS, PaaS, orchestration, monitoring, billing, etc. Other cloud management software is either secret (eg AWS), incomplete (eg Proxmox) or unstable (eg OpenStack). SlapOS is one of the key factors behind the success of Rapid.Space which achieved with modest means what defense groups with significant means have failed to do.
The data center Rapid.Space utilises as the transit operator is based in Sweden.
Applicable laws are French laws and Swedish. Eventually, Rapid.Space plans to create a country-by-country structure in Europe in order to avoid the application of laws falling within one domain from one European state to another.