Scaleway
🇫🇷 FR · from €0.0006/hour (~€0.43/month)/mo
2.1/5· 415 reviews across 4 portals
French cloud infrastructure with EU-only hosting, open-source tooling and HDS-certified health-data storage.
Replaces
Scaleway is sought as a European alternative to:
Features
Bare Metal Servers
- Dedicated servers (Dedibox ranges: Start, Pro, Core, Store, GPU)
- Elastic Metal bare metal cloud servers (Aluminium, Beryllium, Iridium, Lithium, Titanium ranges)
- On-demand Apple Silicon Mac mini servers (M1, M2, M2 Pro, M4)
Compute & Serverless
- Virtual instances for development, general purpose, compute-optimized and memory-optimized workloads
- GPU instances (L4, L40S, H100 PCIe, RENDER)
- Serverless computing (Functions, Containers, Jobs)
- Managed Kubernetes (Kapsule, Kosmos) and Container Registry
AI Infrastructure
- GPU-based infrastructure for AI workloads
- Model-as-a-Service for generative AI (Generative APIs with serverless and dedicated deployment)
- Integration with OpenAI libraries and LangChain SDKs
Storage Solutions
- Object Storage for scalable data storage
- Scaleway Glacier for archival storage
- Block Storage for high-performance needs
- File Storage for shared access
Networking
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with Multi-AZ support
- VPC Peering for private connectivity
- Scaleway InterLink for direct network connections
- Site-to-Site VPN for secure remote access
- Public Gateway and Load Balancer for traffic management
- Edge Services and DNS management
Data & Managed Services
- Managed databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB)
- Serverless SQL Database
- Apache Kafka clusters for real-time data streaming
- OpenSearch cloud essentials for search and analytics
- Managed services (Web Hosting, Transactional Email, IoT, Apache Spark clusters)
- Security tools (Secret Manager, Key Manager)
Pricing
- 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 100 Mbps (STARDUST1-S)
- Pay-as-you-go hourly billing
- No long-term commitment required
- 2 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM, 350 Mbps (BASIC3-X2C-4G)
- Suitable for most workloads
- Up to 64 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM available
- 2 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM, 500 Mbps (COMPUTE3-X2C-4G)
- Optimized for high-performance computing
- Up to 96 vCPUs, 192 GB RAM available
- 2 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, 500 Mbps (MEMORY3-X2C-16G)
- Designed for memory-intensive applications
- Up to 64 vCPUs, 512 GB RAM available
- 2 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM, 3 Gbps (POP2-HN-3)
- High-bandwidth networking
- Up to 10 Gbps available
- Commitment-based discounts
- Flexible pay-as-you-go billing retained
- Applicable to various instance types
Pricing is pay-as-you-go with hourly billing; approximate monthly costs shown. Edge Services use monthly subscription plans.
EU Trust Profile
4 of 9 criteria verified with evidence, last checked 2026-08-03. Every ✓ links to its source.
- Evidence →Data Processing Agreement (DPA)June 1, 2024
The Data Processing Agreement is publicly available for download.
- Evidence →Trust center / security page
Scaleway provides a dedicated Trust Center for security and compliance information.
- Evidence →EU data residencyFrance, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden
Customer data is hosted exclusively in EU/EEA data centers.
- Evidence →Public sub-processor list
A public list of sub-processors is maintained and updated regularly.
- ISO 27001not verified
- SOC 2not verified
- BSI C5not verified
- TISAXnot verified
- German-language supportnot verified
German-language support is available through the support console.
Verified means: the claim was publicly documented at the linked source on the check date. The vendor's own information prevails.
Reviews
Recurring themes, synthesized from public reviews across portals.
What users value
- Straightforward and intuitive management console with self-service tools for easy deployment
- Competitive, transparent flat-fee pricing with hourly billing and no upfront costs
- Fast and helpful customer support, including direct Slack access
- Reliable performance with stable IaaS offerings and improved network stability
- Broad service portfolio including GDPR-compliant infrastructure, load balancing, and private networks
- Good onboarding experience with fast implementation and customization options
- Strong price-to-performance ratio, particularly for EU-based workloads
- Extensive image library and automated backup features
Where users see room to improve
- · Network stability remains a recurring issue, despite improvements over time
- · Upgrading Compute Instances is less intuitive compared to other cloud providers
- · GPU instance pricing has increased significantly, reducing cost advantages for some use cases
Ratings across portals
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Integrations
Feature, pricing and integration details are based on web research (as of 2026-06-21), without guarantee, errors are possible. The vendor's website prevails.