Is Scaleway European?

Cloud computing platform from France

Scaleway is a French cloud provider with a broad catalogue. Its public cloud, Scaleway Elements, offers virtual servers, S3-compatible object storage, DNS and VPC, plus managed services such as Kubernetes and managed MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. The company also rents dedicated servers and whole racks in its data centres.

Instead of

AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and DigitalOcean

Pricing

A development instance starts at 7.68 euro per month, and the pricing pages explain the model in relatively plain terms.

Suits

Companies that want cloud infrastructure under EU jurisdiction

S3 compatible object storage from France

Scaleway Object Storage is the S3-compatible storage service of the French cloud provider Scaleway. Because it speaks the S3 API, existing tools, libraries and backup software work against it without changes, and a cold storage class is available for data that is rarely read.

Instead of

Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage

Pricing

Standard storage costs around 0.01 euro per GB per month. Incoming traffic is free and outgoing traffic is charged at 0.01 euro. Cold storage costs around 0.002 euro per GB per month, and moving data into it is free.

Suits

Developers who need S3 storage hosted in Europe

Managed DNS from French provider Scaleway

Scaleway DNS is the managed DNS service of Scaleway, the French cloud platform. Zones are managed from the same console as the rest of the Scaleway products, which keeps DNS next to the servers and storage that depend on it.

Instead of

Amazon Route 53 and Google Cloud DNS

Pricing

Billing is per hour and works out at roughly 10 euro per zone per year.

Suits

Scaleway users who want DNS in the same console

Domain registrar from French provider Scaleway

Scaleway Domain Names is the domain registrar service of Scaleway, the French cloud provider that is part of the iliad Group. It registers and transfers domains across generic and country-code extensions such as .com, .fr, .eu and .ai, with integrated DNS management, DNSSEC, automatic renewal, multi-user accounts and automation through an API and Terraform. Domains registered elsewhere can be managed in the same console.

Instead of

GoDaddy

Pricing

Prices depend on the extension. A .com domain starts at 12.32 euro per year.

Suits

Teams that want domains and DNS in one EU console

Serverless functions from French provider Scaleway

Scaleway Serverless Functions is the function as a service product of Scaleway, the French cloud provider. You deploy individual functions and the platform runs them on demand, so there is no server to size, patch or keep running between requests.

Pricing

Usage is charged by memory and milliseconds of execution.

Suits

Developers who want event driven code hosted in the EU

Transactional email from French provider Scaleway

Scaleway TEM is the transactional email service of the French cloud provider Scaleway. It offers an API and an SMTP relay for easy integration, so application mail such as password resets and receipts can be sent quickly, and a dashboard shows which messages went out and whether they were delivered.

Instead of

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Mailchimp Transactional Email and Postmark

Pricing

The first 300 emails per month are free. After that messages cost 0.25 euro per 1,000, with no fixed monthly fees.

Suits

Applications that need reliable email from the EU

Free plan

Instead of

OpenAI API and Amazon Bedrock