{"slug": "scaleway", "name": "Scaleway", "category": "infra", "category_name": "Infrastructure and DevOps", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 8, "warners": 1, "score": 3.429, "rising": -1.31, "first": "2026-01-19", "latest": "2026-07-07", "why": "If you are looking for serverless compute (aws lambda, cf workers), I know of Scaleway in europe.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "If you are looking for serverless compute (aws lambda, cf workers), I know of Scaleway in europe.", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.scaleway.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Scaleway"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 781086082, "item_id": 48817880, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817880", "by": "epolanski", "date": "2026-07-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Scaleway is an excellent EU-based cloud provider.", "excerpt": "I'm italian too. For payments I've used Mollie, which is EU based and has good DX. It also has something critical that Stripe does not: proper customer service. Adyen is also good. You're a bit generic on other fronts but Scaleway is an excellent EU-based cloud provider. Haven't missed anything from AWS so far. > Just take a look at Neon Postgres as an example: where do you find a product like this in Europe? Why wou", "context": "Italian developer", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors"}, {"id": 772331824, "item_id": 48270739, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270739", "by": "byyll", "date": "2026-05-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Scaleway is the closest thing there is.", "excerpt": "I don't think that's an alternative to US hyperscalers. Scaleway is the closest thing there is. Replacing a single service with 10 others is not really an alternative in my opinion.", "context": "", "use_case": "alternative to US hyperscalers", "switched_from": "", "story": "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under \u20ac10 per month"}, {"id": 759810496, "item_id": 47488156, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488156", "by": "s_dev", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend Scaleway for cloud hosting.", "excerpt": "https://european-alternatives.eu/ I recommend Scaleway for cloud hosting. I recently migrated from Digital Ocean who I really loved, to Scaleway and have I have to say impressed with both dashboard interface and pricing so far. In work we still use AWS but everything is hosted in eu-west (Ireland) in AWS EU Sovereign cloud but not sure how truly compliant this is in a CloudAct vs GDPR showdown. I've yet to migrate fr", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "DigitalOcean", "story": "Migrating to the EU"}, {"id": 748524768, "item_id": 46782798, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782798", "by": "winstonwinston", "date": "2026-01-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "If you are looking for serverless compute (aws lambda, cf workers), I know of Scaleway in europe.", "excerpt": "If you are looking for serverless compute (aws lambda, cf workers), I know of Scaleway in europe.", "context": "", "use_case": "European serverless compute", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 764396080, "item_id": 47774755, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774755", "by": "joostdecock", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "We use Scaleway for email delivery and it's constant trouble with two providers", "excerpt": "Plenty of advice here, which I'm certain is well intended, but it feels like we're victim blaming here. Things like \"you cannot mix marketing and transactional email\" are good advice, but they do nothing if you're using different subdomains but the same infrastructure (IP address) to send them out. Microsoft is simply trying to squeeze smaller operators out of the market. I run an open source project, we send out tra", "context": "runs an open source project", "use_case": "email delivery for open source project", "switched_from": "AWS SES", "story": "Troubleshooting Email Delivery to Microsoft Users"}]}], "who": [{"by": "epolanski", "context": "Italian developer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817880", "date": "2026-07-07"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["cloud hosting", "alternative to us hyperscalers", "ci/cd vms", "email delivery for open source project", "european cloud hosting", "european serverless compute"], "compared": [{"slug": "amazon-ses", "name": "Amazon SES", "co": 2, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "hetzner-cloud", "name": "Hetzner Cloud", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "digitalocean", "name": "DigitalOcean", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "bunny-net", "name": "Bunny.net", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "aws", "name": "AWS", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "cloudflare", "name": "Cloudflare", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816612", "title": "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270111", "title": "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under \u20ac10 per month", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815774", "title": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738962", "title": "Troubleshooting Email Delivery to Microsoft Users", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487436", "title": "Migrating to the EU", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835336", "title": "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {"warn": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 781086082, "item_id": 48817880, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817880", "by": "epolanski", "date": "2026-07-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Scaleway is an excellent EU-based cloud provider.", "excerpt": "I'm italian too. For payments I've used Mollie, which is EU based and has good DX. It also has something critical that Stripe does not: proper customer service. Adyen is also good. You're a bit generic on other fronts but Scaleway is an excellent EU-based cloud provider. Haven't missed anything from AWS so far. > Just take a look at Neon Postgres as an example: where do you find a product like this in Europe? Why wou", "context": "Italian developer", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors"}, {"id": 772331824, "item_id": 48270739, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270739", "by": "byyll", "date": "2026-05-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Scaleway is the closest thing there is.", "excerpt": "I don't think that's an alternative to US hyperscalers. Scaleway is the closest thing there is. Replacing a single service with 10 others is not really an alternative in my opinion.", "context": "", "use_case": "alternative to US hyperscalers", "switched_from": "", "story": "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under \u20ac10 per month"}, {"id": 765098353, "item_id": 47818647, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818647", "by": "Ken_At_EM", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We're on Scaleway now.", "excerpt": "Yeah, well be careful of Hetzner, I used to love them but I just migrated away. They just shut all all of our VMs over a $36 billing dispute. (~30 VMs we were using for our CI/CD pipeline) We provided them evidence with records of the payment in totality from our bank, they refused to look at it / discuss the dispute, even when we were communicating urgently and just ultimately shut off all our access. We're on Scale", "context": "", "use_case": "CI/CD VMs", "switched_from": "Hetzner", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}, {"id": 764396080, "item_id": 47774755, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774755", "by": "joostdecock", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "We use Scaleway for email delivery and it's constant trouble with two providers", "excerpt": "Plenty of advice here, which I'm certain is well intended, but it feels like we're victim blaming here. Things like \"you cannot mix marketing and transactional email\" are good advice, but they do nothing if you're using different subdomains but the same infrastructure (IP address) to send them out. Microsoft is simply trying to squeeze smaller operators out of the market. I run an open source project, we send out tra", "context": "runs an open source project", "use_case": "email delivery for open source project", "switched_from": "AWS SES", "story": "Troubleshooting Email Delivery to Microsoft Users"}, {"id": 759810496, "item_id": 47488156, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488156", "by": "s_dev", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend Scaleway for cloud hosting.", "excerpt": "https://european-alternatives.eu/ I recommend Scaleway for cloud hosting. I recently migrated from Digital Ocean who I really loved, to Scaleway and have I have to say impressed with both dashboard interface and pricing so far. In work we still use AWS but everything is hosted in eu-west (Ireland) in AWS EU Sovereign cloud but not sure how truly compliant this is in a CloudAct vs GDPR showdown. I've yet to migrate fr", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud hosting", "switched_from": "DigitalOcean", "story": "Migrating to the EU"}, {"id": 749419089, "item_id": 46838693, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838693", "by": "fnoef", "date": "2026-01-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Apart from scaleway, there are no competitions for big cloud providers.", "excerpt": "I keep seeing over and over how Europe should be self sufficient. I\u2019d be happy for Europe to be self sufficient. But the truth is that Europe does not have the infrastructure and offering to be self sufficient. Even looking at basic things like AWS SES, there is no European offering. Apart from scaleway, there are no competitions for big cloud providers. There are no alternative to office suites. And I\u2019m not even tal", "context": "", "use_case": "European cloud hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"}, {"id": 748524768, "item_id": 46782798, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782798", "by": "winstonwinston", "date": "2026-01-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "If you are looking for serverless compute (aws lambda, cf workers), I know of Scaleway in europe.", "excerpt": "If you are looking for serverless compute (aws lambda, cf workers), I know of Scaleway in europe.", "context": "", "use_case": "European serverless compute", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting"}, {"id": 746853075, "item_id": 46678317, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678317", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2026-01-19", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have heard good things about scaleway too", "excerpt": "I recommend you take a look at bunny.net, an Cloudflare alternative which is European and can support deno workers and so you are much more likely to be able to use it Regarding Cloudflare r2, there might be many but I like the idea of Upcloud and you can get yourself say a 3.50 euros machine there and (they got unlimited egress! Wish I was sponsored by them lmaoo) and their block storage is around 20 Euros per month", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Dock \u2013 Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"}]}