What is Scaleway?
Scaleway is a European cloud provider offering compute, storage, AI models, managed databases, Kubernetes, and serverless services. All infrastructure hosted in Europe.
What Scaleway does
The capabilities that matter for cloud infrastructure, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Provider tier
- Regional / sovereign
- Regions / global footprint
- -
- Bare-metal servers
- ✓
- GPU / accelerated compute
- ✓
- Spot / preemptible pricing
- -
- Object storage
- ✓
- Block storage
- ✓
- Managed Kubernetes
- ✓
- Managed databases
- ✓
- Serverless / FaaS
- ✓
- VPC / private networking
- ✓
- Free / low egress
- -
- Data-residency / sovereign options
- -
- Partner marketplace
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Scaleway alternatives
Other cloud infrastructure we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Scaleway, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 50 | 30.00 | 1500.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 96 | 12.00 | 1152.3 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 16.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 5 | 22.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing Transparency | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"tier":"regional","bare_metal":true,"marketplace":true,"block_storage":true,"gpu_instances":true,"object_storage":true,"serverless_faas":true,"managed_databases":true,"managed_kubernetes":true,"private_networking":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Model | commercial | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 70% |
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |