What is Scaleway?
Scaleway is a cloud provider that markets itself as European cloud and AI. Its product catalog includes CPU and GPU instances, object, block and file storage, a container registry, private networking and serverless generative AI APIs hosted in Europe. This listing focuses on Kubernetes Kapsule, its managed Kubernetes engine for hosting containerized applications. Scaleway was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Paris.
Kapsule is available in the Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw availability zones. Scaleway manages the Kubernetes control plane and the core components needed to run a cluster, while customers own their workloads. Clusters are certified standard Kubernetes, support at least the latest version of the last three major releases, and have a Private Network attached by default. Applications can be deployed from an application library, from YAML manifests, from a CI/CD pipeline or through Terraform. Because nodes can be replaced or restarted, they are treated as stateless, and stateful applications need persistent volumes.
Key capabilities
- Managed control plane Scaleway maintains the Kubernetes control plane and core cluster components.
- Self-healing nodes An unresponsive node is restarted or replaced after 15 minutes.
- Private networking A Private Network is attached by default.
- Deployment options Application library, YAML manifests, CI/CD or Terraform.
- Wider catalog Object and block storage, a container registry and GPU or CPU instances.
Where Scaleway fits
- Kubernetes Kapsule is the managed Kubernetes service, and Kosmos is multi-cloud Kubernetes for Scaleway and external providers.
- Cloud instances General Purpose Instances balance performance and value for a wide range of workloads.
- GPU instances L40S GPU Instances target AI-enabled applications and are described as faster than L4 and cheaper than H100 PCIe.
- Object and block storage Object Storage is Amazon S3-compatible and Multi-AZ resilient, and Block Storage serves demanding workloads.
- Container registry Container Registry is an easy-to-use Docker repository.
- Generative APIs Serverless Generative APIs let you consume AI models through a simple API call, all hosted in Europe.
- Serverless Serverless Containers run containers on the cloud with a single command.
- Managed databases Managed Database services cover PostgreSQL and MySQL.
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