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Scaleway: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Scaleway offers Object Storage, Block Storage and backup capabilities as part of its cloud platform. Object Storage is compatible with the Amazon S3 API, supports features such as Object Lock and versioning, offers classes such as Standard Multi-AZ, Standard One Zone and Glacier for cold archive data, and provides encryption through SSE-C, SSE-ONE and SSE-KMS. Block Storage delivers SSD volumes with triple replication and snapshots, attachable to instances and Kubernetes and managed through the console, CLI, API or Terraform. The services are consumed as public cloud.

Scaleway is a French company headquartered in Paris and a majority-owned subsidiary of the Iliad group, also French. There is no non-European parent company. Object Storage and Block Storage are available in Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Milan, all within the EU. The service itself is not open source. Scaleway is listed in the Cloud Security Alliance's CSA STAR registry. For European organisations, the EU regions and the French ownership are the relevant points.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked July 2, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal
CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category
Storage & Backup
Type
Product
Website
scaleway.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Scaleway

The European alternatives to Scaleway come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Scaleway

Scaleway is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Scaleway scores best on data residency.

Scaleway is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Scaleway together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Scaleway?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Scaleway include Acronis, Atempo and Bacula Systems. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Scaleway?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Scaleway include Bacula Systems, Bareos and BorgBackup. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Scaleway GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Scaleway is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Scaleway an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

CSA STARConfirmed in registry

Digital sovereignty in Storage & Backup

Storage & Backup: Business storage, backup solutions, object storage and data recovery. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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