Cloud Hosting · France (FR)
Scaleway
French sovereign cloud with serverless & GPU.
The switch
AWS→Scalewayalso replaces Google Cloud
About
Paris-based hyperscaler offering bare metal, Kubernetes, serverless functions and AI GPUs — all under EU jurisdiction.
Why we recommend it
- EU sovereign cloud
- Kubernetes & serverless
- GPU instances
EU vs USA
Scaleway vs AWS
Side-by-side on jurisdiction, data residency, and the rules that decide who can actually read your data.
Criteria
🇪🇺 Scaleway
🇺🇸 AWS
Headquarters
Paris, France
Seattle, USA
Jurisdiction
France (GDPR)
USA (CLOUD Act)
Data location
France, Netherlands, Poland
Global
GDPR-native
Yes
No
CLOUD Act / FISA exposed
No
Yes
Ad tracking
No
No
End-to-end encryption
No
No
Open source
No
No
Ownership
Iliad Group
Amazon.com Inc.
Founded
1999
2006
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