Scaleway

Scaleway is a European cloud provider operated by Scaleway SAS. Its platform spans more than 100 cloud and AI products, including GPU instances and clusters, serverless and dedicated generative AI APIs, compute, storage, Kubernetes, databases, networking and bare metal servers. It is managed through a web console, API, CLI and Terraform.

What It Is

Scaleway is an infrastructure cloud platform that lets teams run workloads from virtual CPU and GPU instances to dedicated servers. For AI work it offers GPU clusters, GPU Instances (L4, L40S, H100, B300-SXM), and Model-as-a-Service through Generative APIs, available either serverless or as dedicated deployments on dedicated inference infrastructure. The site states that these models are hosted in Europe.

Product Range

The catalog covers several areas:

• Compute: general purpose, development, compute optimized and memory optimized instances.
• Storage: S3-compatible Object Storage, Block Storage, File Storage and Glacier cold storage.
• Containers: Kubernetes Kapsule and Kosmos, Container Registry, and serverless functions, containers and jobs.
• Databases and analytics: managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis and MongoDB, serverless SQL, ClickHouse data warehouse, Spark and Kafka.
• Network and security: VPC, Load Balancer, WAF, IAM, Secret Manager and Key Manager.
• Observability: Cockpit and Audit Trail.
• Bare metal: Dedibox, Elastic Metal and Apple Mac mini servers.

Positioning and Operations

Scaleway presents itself as a European alternative to hyperscalers, emphasizing data sovereignty, open and interoperable technology, and sustainable data centers. It states it operates ten availability zones across four regions and over 65 points of presence. Management tools include a Scaleway API, CLI, Terraform support and a documentation site with a changelog and status page.