Bubble is not ISO 27001 certified. The ISO certificate AWS holds sits at the cloud-infrastructure layer and does not transfer to Bubble or to your app. Bubble lists ISO 27001 only "for information purposes" in its Other Frameworks page. For EU and UK enterprise sales — where ISO is often preferred over SOC 2 — you certify your own information-security management system. ISMS-level certification on Bubble is partial-viable; many teams pair SOC 2 with ISO once international deals demand it.
The honest verdict
Not officially. Not the way you’d ship ISO 27001 in production.
Bubble has no public stance. The platform's architecture makes a real audit hard. That's the entire Bubble position on ISO 27001 — a one-line description on the Other Frameworks page. Bubble itself is not certified. AWS holds an ISO 27001 certificate as Bubble's infrastructure provider, but a sub-processor's certificate does not propagate to Bubble's ISMS, and it does not propagate to yours. Treat ISO as a standard you implement at your own organisation level.
International standard for information security management systems
Reviewed by
Greg· Founder, bubbletocode.com — has migrated 30+ Bubble apps to code
Bubble's stance
Silent — not certified
Listed "for information purposes" only
Procurement consequence
EU/UK enterprise gate
Non-accredited certs routinely rejected
Industries impacted
B2B SaaS · Cloud · Finance · Telecom · Manufacturing
Compliant on Bubble
$15k–$60k · 12–52 weeks
ISMS-level certification with platform inheritance
What ISO 27001 actually requires
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 is the international standard for an information-security management system (ISMS). Accredited certification bodies under ISO/IEC 17021-1 audit and certify organisations. There are no statutory penalties. The 2013-to-2022 transition deadline passed on Oct 31, 2025 — every 2013 certificate is now expired.
Establish the ISMS scope and context, including internal and external issues plus interested-party requirements that bound what you're certifying (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Clause 4).
Secure leadership commitment with a written information-security policy and clearly defined roles and responsibilities, including a top-management mandate (Clause 5).
Conduct a documented information-security risk assessment and risk treatment plan, producing a Statement of Applicability that maps the 93 Annex A controls to your risks (Clause 6).
Provide resources, competence, awareness, and documented information across the team — training records, evidence of competence, controlled documentation (Clause 7).
Operate the ISMS day-to-day and implement the applicable Annex A controls from the 93-control catalogue, 11 of which are new in the 2022 edition (Clause 8 / Annex A).
Monitor, measure, perform internal audits, run management review, and drive continual improvement with corrective action tracked to closure (Clauses 9–10).
Official source: iso.org
Why Bubble fails ISO 27001
Every reason below comes from Bubble’s published platform limits or their own documentation. Reading the list top-to-bottom tells you which one will bite you first.
Bubble holds no ISO 27001 certificate covering its own ISMS. AWS's certificate covers the AWS infrastructure layer, not Bubble's company, processes, or platform. Customers who treat "my app runs on AWS" as ISO inheritance fail vendor-risk reviews in the EU and UK every time. Accredited certification bodies require the certificate be issued to the organisation operating the ISMS — that's you, not your platform.
Bubble's Other Frameworks page mentions ISO 27001 as a description of what the standard is. There is no statement of compliance, no certificate number, no scope statement, no certification body named. Auditors and procurement teams reading the page see exactly what's there: an information-only listing. Compare with the explicit SOC 2 Type II page where Bubble names the auditor (Sensiba LLP) and the report.
Sources[01]
Annex A monitoring controls expect managed log retention, search, and review windows much longer than 14 days. Bubble's logs interface limits search to the previous two weeks. For Annex A control 8.15 (logging) and 8.16 (monitoring activities) you'll need to design and evidence an external log-aggregation pipeline — that's a control your auditor will scrutinise, not something Bubble provides.
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The default Bubble environment is a shared US-AWS cluster. ISO Annex A controls 5.9 (inventory of information and other associated assets) and 8.1 (user endpoint devices) expect a documented, controlled environment. You can certify your organisation around an inherited shared platform, but you cannot certify the platform itself, and auditors will note the dependency in your Statement of Applicability.
Sources[02]
Annex A controls 8.24 (cryptography) and 8.10 (information deletion) expect an organisation to manage its own keys and storage lifecycle. Bubble encrypts at rest with AES-256 on AWS RDS, but the customer has no visibility into key rotation, key management ownership, or per-customer encryption envelopes. That's not a blocker for ISMS certification — but it is a control you must document as inherited.
Sources[02]
Bubble vs a compliant stack
The same 7requirements an auditor will ask about, scored on both stacks. Read across each row — every red cell is a deal you can’t close on Bubble.
Organisation-level ISO 27001 certificate
Fail
Not certified
Listed for information only on Other Frameworks page
Pass
Vercel Enterprise + AWS hold ISO 27001
Statement of Applicability evidence
Partial
Document Bubble as inherited platform
Works for organisational ISMS; auditors note dependency
Pass
Self-managed control mapping per Annex A
Annex A monitoring + logging (8.15 / 8.16)
Partial
Two-week search — ship logs off-platform
Pass
Postgres event log + S3 archive + SIEM
Annex A 8.24 cryptography — key control
Partial
Platform-managed AES-256, no key visibility
Pass
KMS-backed envelope encryption, per-record
Asset inventory and environment control (Clause 8 / 5.9)
Partial
Shared multi-tenant US cluster
Pass
Dedicated infra + tagged assets + IaC
EU / UK data residency at platform level
Partial
Only via Enterprise dedicated AWS region
Pass
Region-pinned Vercel / AWS / Azure
Accredited certification body recognised by EU buyers
Fail
Bubble has no certificate to inherit
Pass
UKAS / ANAB accredited certificate available
What it costs your business
International enterprise procurement — particularly in the EU and UK — increasingly demands an ISO 27001 certificate from an accredited certification body (UKAS, ANAB, or equivalent). Non-accredited certifications are routinely rejected at vendor-risk review. SOC 2 is the US trust currency; ISO is the international one. Selling globally usually means both.
An EU enterprise prospect runs a vendor-risk review and asks for your ISO 27001 certificate before contract — without one, the deal sits unresolved while procurement asks for compensating evidence.
A UK financial-services buyer requires UKAS-accredited certification specifically; a low-cost non-accredited certificate gets returned and you start over with an accredited body.
A renewal request from a long-standing customer references the Oct 31, 2025 transition deadline — your 2013-era cert (or that of your sub-processor) is now expired and triggers a vendor-risk re-review.
Tender RFPs in EU public-sector and large private supply-chains pre-screen on ISO 27001 — without the certificate, you don't make the shortlist regardless of price or fit.
Three honest paths forward
We don’t recommend a rebuild for every founder. Below: what each path costs you, what it preserves, and where it breaks for ISO 27001.
Cheapest now · riskiest later
Partial fitISO 27001 certifies an organisation's ISMS, not a product. You can scope your ISMS around your team, processes, and the Bubble-hosted product with inherited platform controls documented in your Statement of Applicability. Add SOC 2 first, then layer ISO on the same control set.
Pros
Cons
Phased · auditor-defensible
Partial fitCarve specific data flows off Bubble only if a customer demands strict EU residency or a tighter control set than Bubble's shared cluster supports. ISO certifies an organisation, so a hybrid setup is more about residency than about the certification mechanic itself.
Pros
Cons
Highest upfront · clean audit
ViableRebuild on Next.js with Vercel Enterprise or AWS as the host. Vercel Enterprise holds ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2; AWS holds ISO 27001 across all regions. Customer keys, dedicated infrastructure, region-pinned data — all become evidence-friendly under your direct control.
Pros
Cons
Composite case study
Mid-market SaaS expanding into the EU · 14 months on Bubble
B2B SaaS founder closed a German enterprise pilot whose procurement team asked for an accredited ISO 27001 certificate before production rollout. We scoped the ISMS around the founder's team and the existing Bubble app, documented Bubble as a sub-service organisation in the Statement of Applicability, set up log shipping off Bubble for the monitoring controls, and engaged a UKAS-accredited certification body. Stage 1 documentation review at month two, Stage 2 audit at month four, certificate issued at month five.
Outcome: Certificate issued at month five with one minor non-conformity remediated in two weeks; the German deal closed inside 60 days of certificate delivery, and two additional EU conversations that had been pre-screened out re-opened.
Composite case study assembled from patterns we've seen across ISO 27001 readiness engagements with B2B SaaS teams running on Bubble. Anonymised for client privacy — happy to walk you through the actual engagements in a scoping call.
Frequently asked
Pulled from real conversations with founders running healthcare, fintech, and B2B SaaS apps off Bubble. Every answer is grounded in the source we cited above — no marketing fluff.
Sources
The numbered references in the body link here. We cite first-party documents — regulator guidance, vendor manuals, industry standards — never marketing copy.
Bubble Group Inc.manual.bubble.io
Bubble Group Inc.manual.bubble.io
Bubble Group Inc.manual.bubble.io
International Organization for Standardizationiso.org
International Organization for Standardizationiso.org
International Accreditation Forumiaf.nu
Rhymetecrhymetec.com
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