What Scaleway does
Scaleway is a European cloud and AI infrastructure provider (a subsidiary of the iliad Group) that offers sovereign, Europe-rooted compute, storage, networking, and managed services—while placing special emphasis on GPU-based workloads and AI inference deployment. The company operates multi-AZ cloud regions in Europe and markets a set of GPU and AI-focused platform offerings, including Generative APIs (managed access to frontier/open-weight models), Model-as-a-Service for deploying models, and Managed Inference for private AI endpoints. Scaleway also provides dedicated infrastructure options (including bare metal and GPU hardware), plus a quantum computing stack via Quantum as a Service that connects classical cloud resources with emulation and real European QPUs through open SDK compatibility.
Strategically, Scaleway positions itself as an “independent” European alternative to global hyperscalers for customers prioritizing regulatory control, data residency, and long-term technology autonomy. Recent announcements show an ongoing expansion of customer deployments and ecosystem partnerships across enterprise and public-sector contexts (for example, sovereign cloud procurements and large industrial partners), alongside platform expansions such as new model availability in Generative APIs and interoperability layers for quantum tooling. Scaleway’s growth is also reinforced by integration with iliad’s broader infrastructure footprint, while its data center business has been carved out into OpCore (operated as a separate entity within the iliad Group and later linked to InfraVia’s partnership for scaling).