# Scaleway 70 Hacker News commenters recommended Scaleway and 26 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 12 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** Recommended as a European cloud host with self-serve compute, broad managed services and pricing below AWS and GCP. Critics cite weak support and website, reliability doubts and high costs for steady workloads. ## Why people recommend it - European provider for EU hosting (5 comments): "None other than Airbus chose Scaleway (a personal favourite) for their migration of core services off AWS." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494279)) "it makes more sense to consume those Chinese models from a European hosting company like Scaleway" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922566)) "pushing a local french actor like OVH, Clever or Scale, decison that seemed right all along" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989914)) - Broad managed services and databases (5 comments): "It really is more what we think about when talking "public cloud": self-serve compute, with lots of managed services" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46778709)) "they have by far the broadest range of managed services with full permissions/IAM integration" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742352)) "I‘ve used Scaleway‘s Serverless compute offers and managed DBs an been quite happy with them." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45977397)) - Cheaper than AWS and GCP (4 comments): "I recently migrated from Digital Ocean to them and found them to be very similar in pricing and performance." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296103)) "The 2 providers above were much cheaper than our GCP stuff one the free credits ran out." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844384)) "My Scaleway cloud stuff is way cheaper than AWS. Much simpler billing too." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46363028)) - Good support and Terraform provider (3 comments): "these companies have decent human support and some/most provide decent SLA guarantees" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47276822)) "support is good and the responses to bugs in their terraform provider are quick" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678419)) "Our experience has been pretty good. Quality of support is great." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46837788)) ## What people warn about - High cost for steady workloads (4 comments): "they're not comparable to hetzner anymore, both in terms of features and price" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45979696)) "Price would be a bit more bearable if their reserved instance discounts were more generous" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085882)) "Scaleway's offer of the same computing power is highly unattractive comparatively." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130021)) - Weak security and isolation assurances (4 comments): "the same IPs on their network continue day after day to blast out login and bruteforce attempts" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585491)) "he eventually bought a hard-drive containing non-encrypted VM disks from Scaleway" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920525)) "there is no way Scaleway can match the reliability or SOC controls of AWS" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938118)) - Poor website and onboarding usability (3 comments): "Scaleway's site and support is horrible, as you've found. But their pricing and offerings are solid" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46061189)) "I was signing up specifically to provision a M1 mac mini, and couldn't navigate it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46061595)) "I gave up on the screen that couldn't handle a standard European address" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734771)) - Reliability behind hyperscale clouds (3 comments): "lightyears behind hyperscalers in terms of performance, reliability and security" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713574)) "there is no way Scaleway can match the reliability or SOC controls of AWS" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938118)) "service reliability of Scaleway was terrible last time we used them" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817760)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amazon-web-services.md): 248 recommend - [Google Cloud](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-cloud-platform.md): 161 recommend - [Microsoft Azure](https://hackerapproved.com/p/microsoft-azure.md): 153 recommend - [Oracle Cloud Free Tier](https://hackerapproved.com/p/oracle-cloud.md): 70 recommend - [OVHcloud](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ovhcloud.md): 16 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.scaleway.com/en/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Scaleway", https://hackerapproved.com/p/scaleway/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).