Amazon Web Services vs Scaleway
Split decision: Amazon Web Services is cheaper in 1 of the 3 contested categories, Scaleway in 2. Neither is the cheaper provider outright.
Category by category
Each provider's cheapest published option in each category, on the axis that category is billed on. A dash means they do not sell into it.
| Category | Amazon Web Services | Rate | Scaleway | Rate | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDN & edge delivery | AWS CloudFront | $0.085 | — | — | only one competes |
| Cloud compute & VPS | AWS EC2 | $0.042 | Scaleway Instances | $0.0060 | Scaleway6.9× cheaper |
| GPU cloud | AWS EC2 P5 | $7.57 | — | — | only one competes |
| Object storage | AWS S3 | $0.023 | Scaleway Object Storage | $0.018 | Scaleway1.3× cheaper |
| Managed databases | AWS RDS for PostgreSQL | $12.40 | Scaleway Managed Database | $13.00 | Amazon Web Services1× cheaper |
About each provider
Amazon Web Services
Headquartered in US · 7 priced services
The largest cloud provider by revenue, with the broadest service catalogue and the most complex pricing. Rates are rarely the cheapest on any single axis, and egress in particular is priced well above the market.
Scaleway
Headquartered in FR · 3 priced services
A French cloud with EU data residency as its main pitch, covering compute, object storage, and managed databases at rates between Hetzner and the hyperscalers.
Questions
- Is Amazon Web Services or Scaleway cheaper in 2026?
- Split decision: Amazon Web Services is cheaper in 1 of the 3 contested categories, Scaleway in 2. Neither is the cheaper provider outright. Picking a provider on an aggregate "cheaper" verdict is usually a mistake — what matters is which of them is cheaper in the categories you actually buy.
- What does Amazon Web Services offer that Scaleway does not?
- In this dataset: CDN & edge delivery, GPU cloud. Scaleway has no priced equivalent in those categories.
- What does Scaleway offer that Amazon Web Services does not?
- Nothing in this dataset — every category Scaleway sells into, Amazon Web Services sells into as well.
- Should I use both?
- Often the cheapest answer, and the table above shows where the seams are. Splitting workloads across providers costs you cross-provider data transfer and a second bill to reason about, so it pays off when the per-category gap is large and the traffic between them is small.