Scaleway Compute Instances

Scaleway Compute Instances are virtual machines from the French cloud provider Scaleway, part of the Iliad group. Four instance families cover the usual shapes — Development, General Purpose, Compute Optimized and Memory Optimized — across three regions: Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw. Block storage with snapshots, VPC private networking, IPv6, SLAs and an API, CLI and Terraform provider all come as standard, and Savings Plans discount committed usage by up to 25%.

The commercial difference from the American hyperscalers is egress. Scaleway advertises free egress with no data-transfer fees, where both AWS and, above a threshold, DigitalOcean bill outbound traffic per gigabyte — on an egress-heavy workload that is the line item that decides the comparison, not the instance price.

The honest limit is scope rather than capability. Three European regions against AWS’s global footprint matters for latency outside Europe, and the surrounding managed-service catalogue is a fraction of the size, so an application that leans on AWS-specific services has more to rebuild than the virtual machines themselves.

French cloud provider offering compute, storage, networking, and managed services.

Its products and services are generally evaluated on product reliability, security posture, pricing clarity, and long-term operational fit for teams and individuals. For buyers comparing vendors, Scaleway is usually considered alongside alternatives based on jurisdiction, infrastructure choices, support quality, and how well the platform integrates with existing workflows.