Question 1

What is Scaleway?

Accepted Answer

Scaleway is a French cloud provider and subsidiary of Iliad Group offering compute instances, bare metal servers, managed Kubernetes (Kapsule), object storage, and serverless functions. It is a leading European cloud alternative with a strong focus on sustainability and developer experience.

Question 2

How does Scaleway pricing compare to other cloud providers?

Accepted Answer

Scaleway offers competitive per-hour pricing for European workloads, often lower than AWS and Azure equivalents. All instances include IPv6 and flexible IPs, and pricing is billed hourly with no egress fees within the same region.

Question 3

What compute instance types does Scaleway offer?

Accepted Answer

Scaleway offers PLAY2 (burstable, entry-level), PRO2 (production-grade AMD EPYC), COPARM1 (Arm-based Ampere Altra), GPU H100/L40S instances, and STARDUST (micro instances for low-traffic apps). Prices are in EUR.

Question 4

Which Scaleway zones are available?

Accepted Answer

Scaleway operates in Paris (fr-par-1, fr-par-2, fr-par-3), Amsterdam (nl-ams-1, nl-ams-2, nl-ams-3), and Warsaw (pl-waw-1, pl-waw-2, pl-waw-3), with all zones offering the full product catalogue.

Instance Type	OS	vCPUs	Memory (GB)	Hourly	Family
DEV1-S	Linux	2	2	€0.0088	DEV1	View Details
PLAY2-PICO	Linux	1	2	€0.0140	PLAY2	View Details
DEV1-M	Linux	3	4	€0.0198	DEV1	View Details
PLAY2-NANO	Linux	2	4	€0.0270	PLAY2	View Details
DEV1-L	Linux	4	8	€0.0420	DEV1	View Details
POP2-HC-2C-4G	Linux	2	4	€0.0532	POP2	View Details
PLAY2-MICRO	Linux	4	8	€0.0540	PLAY2	View Details
PRO2-XXS	Linux	2	8	€0.0550	PRO2	View Details
DEV1-XL	Linux	4	12	€0.0638	DEV1	View Details
POP2-2C-8G	Linux	2	8	€0.0735	POP2	View Details
GP1-XS	Linux	4	16	€0.0910	GP1	View Details
POP2-HM-2C-16G	Linux	2	16	€0.1030	POP2	View Details
POP2-HC-4C-8G	Linux	4	8	€0.1064	POP2	View Details
PRO2-XS	Linux	4	16	€0.1100	PRO2	View Details
POP2-4C-16G	Linux	4	16	€0.1470	POP2	View Details
GP1-S	Linux	8	32	€0.1870	GP1	View Details
POP2-HM-4C-32G	Linux	4	32	€0.2060	POP2	View Details
POP2-HC-8C-16G	Linux	8	16	€0.2128	POP2	View Details
PRO2-S	Linux	8	32	€0.2190	PRO2	View Details
POP2-HN-3	Linux	2	4	€0.2554	POP2	View Details
POP2-8C-32G	Linux	8	32	€0.2900	POP2	View Details
GP1-M	Linux	16	64	€0.3760	GP1	View Details
POP2-HM-8C-64G	Linux	8	64	€0.4120	POP2	View Details
POP2-HC-16C-32G	Linux	16	32	€0.4256	POP2	View Details
PRO2-M	Linux	16	64	€0.4380	PRO2	View Details
POP2-HN-5	Linux	4	8	€0.4524	POP2	View Details
POP2-16C-64G	Linux	16	64	€0.5900	POP2	View Details
POP2-HN-10	Linux	4	8	€0.7264	POP2	View Details
GP1-L	Linux	32	128	€0.7590	GP1	View Details
POP2-HM-16C-128G	Linux	16	128	€0.8240	POP2	View Details
POP2-HC-32C-64G	Linux	32	64	€0.8512	POP2	View Details
PRO2-L	Linux	32	128	€0.8770	PRO2	View Details
POP2-32C-128G	Linux	32	128	€1.1800	POP2	View Details
GP1-XL	Linux	48	256	€1.6410	GP1	View Details
POP2-HM-32C-256G	Linux	32	256	€1.6480	POP2	View Details
POP2-HC-64C-128G	Linux	64	128	€1.7024	POP2	View Details
POP2-64C-256G	Linux	64	256	€2.3500	POP2	View Details
POP2-HM-64C-512G	Linux	64	512	€3.2960	POP2	View Details

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