Scaleway – European cloud storage
French cloud provider with data centres in Paris and Amsterdam. Eco-friendly infrastructure, GDPR-native, competitive pricing.
Quick facts
Pricing is genuinely competitive with the big US clouds, and spinning up bare-metal or GPU instances is unusually straightforward for a European provider.
The console and documentation aren't as polished as AWS's, and some newer instance types or regions can have availability limits during high demand.
Why does it score 78?
Incorporated in Paris, France – a full EU member state.
A subsidiary of French telecoms group Iliad SA, which keeps ownership inside the EU but means Scaleway answers to a corporate parent rather than standing fully independent.
Scaleway runs its own data centres across France, the Netherlands and Poland rather than renting capacity from a bigger cloud.
GDPR-compliant, but the platform isn't open source and there's no independently published security audit on record.
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