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What is Scaleway?

Scaleway is a French cloud services provider offering a range of cloud computing solutions, including virtual instances, object storage, and Kubernetes-managed services. It focuses on providing scalable, flexible, and cost-effective infrastructure for developers, startups, and enterprises. Scaleway is known for its user-friendly interface, European data centers, and competitive pricing.

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17 Scaleway Reviews
4.5 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 14, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Matheo C. avatar
Matheo C.
Technicien Systèmes Et Réseaux
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"The services offered are very interesting. The support is always responsive and helpful."
What do you like best about Scaleway?

I like above all the responsiveness of the support, which is essential when offering this kind of service. In addition, the management console is straightforward to use and all tools are easy to deploy.

What do you dislike about Scaleway?

There's nothing I honestly don't like. Everything is explained clearly and there is no low blow in billing.

What problems is Scaleway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being French, I like it when my data is hosted in my country. The different datacenters that Scaleway offers were able to satisfy my request. In addition, the prices are reasonable, which is a plus.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 14, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
LB
Laus B.
Cto
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"Hosting that just works"
What do you like best about Scaleway?

It's all European. You get what you need in a simple but efficient manner. You don't need to go through weird setups with all kinds of options you don't need, but the options you need are there.

What do you dislike about Scaleway?

There are a few more exotic features that I have missed, but they are being implemented piece by piece.

What problems is Scaleway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hosting our server infrastructure.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 13, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Oliver H.
Software Developer
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"Perfect service and very customer friendly"
What do you like best about Scaleway?

I needed a macOS desktop system. Scaleways provided it perfectly smooth, with extremely user/customer friendly conditions despite Apple's complex constraints on its products.

What do you dislike about Scaleway?

A minor part, with no effect on the overall top experience, is the somehow complex user interface of the web page/dashboard of Scaleways. The user interface could be improved to give a better service overview.

What problems is Scaleway solving and how is that benefiting you?

For me, it was the need for timely short access to a macOS desktop system. The quick service shouldn't be expensive, and Scaleways provides an immensely customer-friendly condition where only the real usage time is charged.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 29, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Thibault C. avatar
Thibault C.
Dev Sec Ops
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"An Amazing french cloud provider"
What do you like best about Scaleway?

- Simple and crystal clear web console (and Magic Link !) - Free control plane on Kubernetes product (Kapsule) - Terraform support - Helpful support, availability of staff and community via Slack - Regular new products (and betas) - Sustainable data centers - Some low-cost options for developers - Managed database and Redis

What do you dislike about Scaleway?

- s3 (Object storage) and Docker Image management are sometimes under heavy load - serverless services are not always working properly - missing private subnets for Kubernetes nodes

What problems is Scaleway solving and how is that benefiting you?

An excellent European provider with corrects prices and an incredible community on slack. Managed services are enough to 90% of my needs and Kapsule (Kubernetes) is a terrific product. They also open the track to multi-cloud with an multi-cloud offer on their managed Load Balancer

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 29, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
Yann S. avatar
Yann S.
Développeur Web Full Stack
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"Bullet-proof performance, easy to configure and reliable instances."
What do you like best about Scaleway?

Easy install, easy configuration + netw.

What do you dislike about Scaleway?

Custom tunnel is the only choice for private network with Dedibox Instances.

What problems is Scaleway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ultra quick deployment for short game tournaments running into Docker containers.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jan 20, 2024
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Overall Rating:
4.5
Diwakar S. avatar
Diwakar S.
Lead Software Engineer
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"Amazing Cloud Service Provider"
What do you like best about Scaleway?

Simple yet effective Cloud service provider.

What do you dislike about Scaleway?

Object storage is slow at times. Documentations could have been better.

What problems is Scaleway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Structured IaaS. Faster resonsiveness. More reliable. Instances with more computational power at less price.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 13, 2022
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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Gatien S.
Ceo, Software Engineer
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"Scaleway, the simplest and most stable cloud solution"
What do you like best about Scaleway?

We manage several cloud architectures via several providers. Scaleway is our preferred provider, the rates are correct, the availability is exemplary and the management back-office is very easy to use. We recommend Scaleway for the implementation of Cloud architectures.

What do you dislike about Scaleway?

We observed some bugs when using the back office, but nothing significant. Another disadvantage is that upgrading a Compute Instance machine is not very easy compared to other cloud providers.

What problems is Scaleway solving and how is that benefiting you?

To have a reliable Cloud provider based in France to meet the data storage requirements of our customers, all at an affordable price. The availability of tools meets our customers' needs.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jun 27, 2022
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Overall Rating:
4.5
Mohammed F. avatar
Mohammed F.
Developer
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"Scaleway C14 Cold Storage"
What do you like best about Scaleway?

1} It is cost-effective. 2} It provides free archive and restore capabilities. 3} It is compatible with S3 tools and come with an unlimited data storage capacity that is the same as the object storage. 4} It is best to store large media files that are not accessed frequently. 5} It is also a great place to store data that needs to be retained by law enforcement to comply with regulatory requirements such as GDPR.

What do you dislike about Scaleway?

1} You have to change the files' Storage Class from Glacier to Standard, before you can get the files. 2} Sometimes A lot of files fail to restore. 3} There is no proper customer support.

What problems is Scaleway solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helping me to upload my business documentations, photos, videos, and all types of personal informations. I can store a large media files that are not accessed frequently.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 29, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
Segey L. avatar
Segey L.
Blogger
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"cheap servers for high performance"
What do you like best about Scaleway?

Very competitive prices for high CPU load servers (they call it "Baremetal" instances). A modern and simple interface is very nice for an eye.

What do you dislike about Scaleway?

Not many regions (currently only 2 and both in Europe). Of course, it would be cool to add features as some of its competitors have: load balancers, even more, OS, but for me, it is not that critical.

What problems is Scaleway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Getting instances with a lot of computational power without overpaying for unneeded stuff (like disk space etc.).

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 21, 2019
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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Krzysztof N.
Mr
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"A dedicated server does not have to be expensive :)"
What do you like best about Scaleway?

Cheap dedicated server with good specs. Predictable and constant performances without noisy neighbours.

What do you dislike about Scaleway?

They have no redundancy, no RAID my data could fail anytime.

What problems is Scaleway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Controlled hosting for my few customers websites.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 25, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
Hugo M. avatar
Hugo M.
Ceo
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"A smart cloud at a fair price"
What do you like best about Scaleway?

Scaleway is a provider of servers in the cloud with a variety of impressive options, and their prices are in my opinion the best in the market. * The services are billed in hours, which allows you to experience the platform at a reduced cost, as they only charge for the services used. * Does not have Setup Fees or Termination Fees. * They have cloud servers with ARM processors of 32 and 64 bits, with Intel 64 bits (both Atom and Xeon D), with capacities from 1 core to 64 cores for ARMv8 and 12 cores for Xeon D. * They feature a variety of disk images with most of the most popular Linux flavors. * All servers have SSDs, which can be increased in steps of 50GB. * Support for IPv6 on all cloud servers. * Backup option and snapshots * Bandwidth from 100Mbit up to 5Gbits. * A management console recently renewed, with outstanding ease of use. * Its services can also be managed via API, which allows extreme automation. * The services provided tends to be quite stable.

What do you dislike about Scaleway?

Apparently the Scaleway prices are very competitive because they separated the support level of the services provided, that is, if you want better support you must pay for it, however this does not mean that you do not have support from them, there is a plan BASIC support that is free, but your answer leaves much to be desired if the servers you manage are of critical availability. * Being in the BASIC support plan may be inappropriate depending on the service availability you require. * The support service only works during office hours (time zone of France) * There is a strange limit to connect up to 15 storages of up to 150GB (each) to the cloud servers. * There is no possibility to upload a disk image with a Linux flavor different from what was supplied.

What problems is Scaleway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scaleway represented a possibility to deploy an infrastructure in the cloud, quickly, versatile, fairly stable, sufficiently secure, at a very competitive cost. Although we feel that your support is not the fastest on some occasions, and we have detected that very occasionally problems occur in the deployment of some of their technologies, adding the pros and cons, we decided to count them as a provider of cloud services. We currently use your services for more than 66% of our entire operation, and we do not take it 100% because of a security policy that mandates not having all services with a single provider.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 10, 2023
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Overall Rating:
3.5
TG
Tristan G.
Security Consultant
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"The Alternative Cloud Provider"
What do you like best about Scaleway?

Scaleway is a alternative cloud provider to the obvious ones.

What do you dislike about Scaleway?

Does not integrate well with most tool which need to integrate with a cloud provider

What problems is Scaleway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scaleway is our cloud provider

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 25, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.5
Warren C. avatar
Warren C.
It Support & Operations Specialist
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"Scaleway offers an affordable solution in the european market"
What do you like best about Scaleway?

The vast selection offering for cloud and Virtual machine solutions allows you to scale up and down with ease, low latency and fast connectivity from their European data centers, and the ability to load balance between data centers

What do you dislike about Scaleway?

The recent hike in pricing on their VPS platform with the removal of the monthly price cap (this is removing the ease of mind of non-standard billing at the end of the month) and that their dedicated platform was transferred over to their sister company, sometimes slow/useless support

What problems is Scaleway solving and how is that benefiting you?

faster response times, more reliable uptime, ease of use if you are already familiar with their back-end platform, community documentation is available on the web, but local documentation needs improvement

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 13, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Saved a lot of money moving from AWS S3 to Scaleway S3 without changing the code"
What do you like best about Scaleway?

The interface is more straightforward than AWS, OVH and others, yet it has all the basic things I needed. Running a Docker container is also very cheap.

What do you dislike about Scaleway?

Many features still under development, same for the documentation

What problems is Scaleway solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use a S3 instance for my media, and also deploy many Docker containers for smaller tasks

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 13, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Excellent European Cloud Provider"
What do you like best about Scaleway?

Good IaaS Services Pricing is fair and balanced Full European Cloud Provider Simple UI Good integration into Standard Tools No Vendor-lockin A lot new products in a short time

What do you dislike about Scaleway?

Some bugs in the console sometimes Object Storage is sometimes slow Standard Security features where developed quite late Support could be better

What problems is Scaleway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Full European Cloud Provider No hassle with GDPR Good and structered IaaS offer Balanced prices for resources Perfect Kubernetes Kosmos Multicloud offer

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 03, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Cheap, fast and easily-depolayble VPSs"
What do you like best about Scaleway?

Extremely cheap and fast way to deploy servers.

What do you dislike about Scaleway?

User interface is slow and clumsy. There is definitely some space for improvement.

What problems is Scaleway solving and how is that benefiting you?

From time to time we need to test a new script for which we deploy a new server. Scaleway is very easy-to-use and allows us to specify region, size and speed of the server. It takes less than 3 minutes to start working on a newly-deployed server.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 28, 2022
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Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Scaleway has great services"
What do you like best about Scaleway?

The interface that control scaleway and the unmetered bandwidth.

What do you dislike about Scaleway?

Cannot search on their control panel. Nothing else

What problems is Scaleway solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scaleway solved our high bandwidth price issue with other ISP and gave us great value to run our business.