What Scaleway does
Scaleway is a European sovereign cloud and AI provider that delivers secure, transparent, and sustainable infrastructure for organizations with high digital sovereignty requirements. The company positions itself as a full “Cloud & AI” platform across compute, data management, and AI/GPU infrastructure, and it also offers quantum through its Quantum as a Service (QaaS) platform. Scaleway is a subsidiary of the iliad Group and operates across European markets including France, Poland, Italy, and the Netherlands, with planned expansions in additional countries. Its product strategy emphasizes open, interoperable technologies and native security features (including IAM) to help customers avoid lock-in to proprietary systems and retain control over their deployments.
Scaleway’s offering is intended for enterprises, public-sector organizations, startups, researchers, and developers who want to deploy workloads in Europe and integrate AI tooling directly into their infrastructure. For observability and operational visibility, Scaleway offers Cockpit, a monitoring and alerting solution integrated with the broader Scaleway ecosystem. For AI, Scaleway provides cloud-native GPU/AI compute options and also makes large models accessible via its Generative APIs, while keeping a focus on European availability zones/regions and sovereign operation.
In its strategic position, Scaleway has been expanding both its geographic footprint and its service breadth (adding quantum capability, AI inference options, and managed database offerings), and it has continued to strengthen its infrastructure portfolio through acquisitions—most recently announcing the acquisition of Qarnot to add dedicated low-carbon HPC capabilities for engineering, simulation, and research workloads. (Funding via external venture-style rounds is not prominently disclosed in Scaleway’s own materials; it is instead backed by its parent, the iliad Group.)