Scaleway
European sovereign cloud from the Iliad group with 100+ products, 4 multi-AZ regions, AI GPU, Kubernetes Kapsule, and HDS certification. SecNumCloud in progress.
About
Scaleway is a 100% European cloud provider — founded in 1999 in Paris and a subsidiary of the Iliad group. The company offers over 100 cloud, AI, and quantum products from its multi-availability-zone regions in France, the Netherlands, Poland, and Italy (opening March 2026). Scaleway has pioneered many firsts: first to offer native IAM, managed Kubernetes, and a European Quantum-as-a-Service.
Geography
| Region | Code | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Paris | FR-PAR | France 🇫🇷 |
| Amsterdam | NL-AMS | Netherlands 🇳🇱 |
| Warsaw | PL-WAW | Poland 🇵🇱 |
| Milan | IT-MIL | Italy 🇮🇹 (opening March 2026) |
Upcoming regions announced: Sweden 🇸🇪, Germany 🇩🇪.
Services
- Compute: Virtual instances (General Purpose, CPU/Memory/GPU Optimized), Elastic Metal (bare metal cloud), Dedibox (dedicated servers), Mac mini M1/M2/M4, RISC-V
- AI GPU: GPU instances (L4, L40S, H100 PCIe & SXM, NVIDIA Blackwell B300-SXM), reserved GPU clusters — 5,000+ GPUs available
- Kubernetes: Kubernetes Kapsule (native), Kubernetes Kosmos (multi-cloud), Container Registry
- Serverless: Functions, Containers, Jobs
- Object storage: S3-compatible Multi-AZ Object Storage, Block Storage, Glacier (cold)
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Serverless SQL
- Data & Analytics: Managed Kafka, Managed Spark, NATS, Topics & Events, Queues, OpenSearch
- Native IAM: Secret Manager, Key Manager, Audit Trail
- Networking: VPC, Load Balancer, Edge Services/WAF, Site-to-Site VPN, InterLink, IPAM
- Generative AI: Generative APIs (sovereign serverless inference, hosted in Europe), Dedicated Deployment
- Quantum-as-a-Service (Labs): quantum emulation + real QPUs, NVIDIA CUDA-Q compatible
- Web: hosting, domain names, transactional email
Certifications
| Certification | Status |
|---|---|
| ISO 27001:2022 | ✅ Certified |
| HDS (Health Data Hosting) | ✅ Certified since July 2024 (France scope only) |
| SecNumCloud (ANSSI) | 🔄 Qualification in progress — process entry announced January 2025 |
| GDPR | ✅ Compliant — 100% European provider, no transfers outside the EEA |
SecNumCloud qualification is currently under review by ANSSI/SGDSN. Scaleway is not yet SecNumCloud 3.2 qualified.
Notable milestones
Scaleway holds several European firsts: first European multi-AZ cloud (2018), first European managed Kubernetes (2020), first European native IAM (2022), first European public cloud GPU supercomputer (2023), first European Quantum-as-a-Service platform (2024), first European sovereign inference provider on Hugging Face (2025).
Services Offered
Services are mapped to unified taxonomy categories for easy comparison across providers.
- Compute
- Kubernetes
- Object Storage
- Database
- Paas
- Caas
- Iam
Certifications & Compliance
Verified certifications and compliance attestations.
Geographic Coverage
Datacenter locations for data residency and latency considerations.
- Paris
- Amsterdam
- Warsaw
- Milan