Scaleway
European cloud infrastructure and AI services emphasizing data residency and regional availability
- Also known as
- scaleway
Available worldwide · Popular in: EU
What is Scaleway?
A European cloud computing platform offering compute, storage, and AI services with multiple regional data centers and data sovereignty guarantees as an alternative to global hyperscalers.
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
- Hyperscaler
- Regions / global footprint
- 4 multi-AZ in Europe, 65+ PoPs globally
- 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- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Scaleway FAQ
Common questions about Scaleway, answered from independent, dated evidence.
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. It is indexed under Cloud Infrastructure.
Source: https://www.scaleway.com
What platforms does Scaleway support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to Scaleway. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Can Scaleway be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Scaleway, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
Where is Scaleway available?
Scaleway is available worldwide. Its primary market is the EU.
Scaleway alternatives
Other cloud infrastructure we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- OVHcloudGlobal cloud infrastructure platform offering compute, storage, and managed servicesmedium · 73%
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- CloudflareA global edge network platform providing security, performance optimization, and serverless compute services at scale.medium · 72%
- IBM CloudCloud platform for hybrid and multicloud enterprise applicationsmedium · 74%
- Google CloudA cloud platform combining AI capabilities with comprehensive infrastructure and analytics serviceslow · 41%
- UpCloudEuropean-based cloud infrastructure providermedium · 63%
Compare Scaleway
Side by side against other cloud infrastructure, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI 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 | 0.16 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 96 | 0.05 | 4.9 | ✓ |
| Price level | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 5 | 0.12 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing transparency | 0 | 0.06 | 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.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 4 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 64% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Tier: hyperscaler · Bare metal: Yes · Marketplace: Yes · Block storage: Yes · Gpu instances: Yes · Regions count: 4 multi-AZ in Europe, 65+ PoPs globally | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-13 · 75% |
Pricing
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Model | commercial | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 70% |
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Security
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