Scaleway is a European sovereign cloud and AI provider focused on giving organizations a secure, transparent, and sustainable alternative to hyperscalers. Its platform is built around European data residency, pricing clarity, and architectural openness, helping customers run cloud, AI, data, and quantum workloads with strong control over infrastructure and legal exposure.
Scaleway offers a portfolio of more than 100 cloud, AI, and quantum products and services spanning compute, storage, containers, serverless, databases, analytics, and advanced AI infrastructure. As part of the iliad Group, it combines self-service cloud tools with managed services and a growing ecosystem designed for customers ranging from startups to large enterprises and public institutions.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Scaleway brings together virtualized compute, GPUs, bare metal, containers, serverless, data platforms, and AI infrastructure in a single European cloud environment. Its capabilities are designed for organizations that need sovereignty, predictable costs, and production-grade performance, with support for private networking, identity and access management, automated scaling, backup, and managed operations across core infrastructure layers.
The platform emphasizes interoperability and developer control through console, API, CLI, SDK, and Terraform-based workflows. Scaleway also supports widely adopted compatibility patterns and open technologies, including Amazon S3-compatible storage, OpenAI-compatible AI APIs, Kubernetes, Knative, and open-source quantum toolchains. Beyond its native services, it extends the ecosystem through partner offerings in the Scaleway Marketplace and connectivity options for hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.
Products and Services
- GPU Clusters: Dedicated, custom-built GPU cluster capacity for large-scale AI training and inference workloads, with configurable compute, storage, and networking resources.
- Generative APIs: Serverless API access to AI models with OpenAI-compatible interfaces, rapid onboarding, and usage-based pricing.
- Virtual Instances: Virtual machine instances for development, production, and specialized compute workloads with transparent pricing and integration into the broader Scaleway cloud ecosystem.
- Object Storage: Amazon S3-compatible object storage with lifecycle management, multiple storage classes, encryption options, and resilient European hosting.
- Kubernetes Kapsule: Managed Kubernetes service for deploying and scaling containerized applications with integration into Scaleway networking, storage, and cloud services.
- Serverless Functions: Function-as-a-service offering for running event-driven code with automatic scaling and support for multiple programming languages.
- Managed Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL: Managed relational database service with automated backups, scaling, high-availability options, read replicas, and private networking support.
- Managed MongoDB®: Managed MongoDB service for document-oriented applications, designed to reduce operational overhead while supporting secure, scalable deployments.
- Elastic Metal: Cloud-integrated bare metal servers that combine dedicated hardware performance with flexible hourly or monthly billing and API-driven management.
- Dedibox: Dedicated server range for customized hosting environments, including compute, storage, and GPU configurations on monthly plans.
- Managed Database for Redis®: Managed Redis service for caching, session storage, and low-latency application acceleration.
- Serverless SQL Database: Serverless PostgreSQL-compatible database that automatically scales compute and storage based on workload demand, including scale-to-zero behavior.
- Data Warehouse for ClickHouse®: Managed analytical data warehouse for large-scale SQL analytics with elastic scaling, bottomless storage, and BI tool integration.
- Quantum as a Service: Unified access to multiple European quantum processors and GPU-powered emulation through open-source quantum development workflows.
Target Customers
Scaleway targets startups, software companies, digital-native businesses, and platform teams that want European cloud infrastructure without excessive complexity or vendor lock-in. Its self-service tooling, API-first model, and Startup Program make it relevant for early-stage builders as well as scaling SaaS and AI companies.
Scaleway also serves larger enterprises and public-sector organizations that need stronger control over data residency, security, and compliance. The company highlights demand across public sector, healthcare, education, banking and financial services, retail and e-commerce, media and entertainment, manufacturing, and technology, particularly for data-intensive, AI-driven, and business-critical workloads.
Key People
- Damien Lucas: CEO
- Aude Durand: President
- Albane Bruyas: COO & CCO
- Luis Alves: CFO
- Jean-Baptiste Kempf: CTO
- Doreen Pernel: CSO
- Alexia Boulot: VP Product
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Employees: 519
- Annual Revenue: €103.2M
- Parent Company: iliad Group
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: No (subsidiary of iliad Group; parent listed on Euronext Paris: ILD)
