Scaleway Object Storage

Scaleway Object Storage is an S3-compatible object store from the French provider Scaleway, part of the Iliad group. Because it implements the S3 API, existing clients, SDKs and backup tools point at it by changing an endpoint rather than rewriting code. Three storage classes — Standard Multi-AZ, Standard One Zone and Glacier — cover hot through archival, with granular lifecycle rules to move objects into cold storage, plus bucket versioning, object lock and multipart upload up to 5 TB per object.

The commercial case rests on what is not billed: Scaleway charges no request fees, where S3 meters PUT, GET and LIST operations separately from storage. New accounts get 750 GB-hours free for 90 days.

What you give up is breadth rather than function. S3 carries more storage tiers, a global region footprint and deep wiring into the rest of AWS — Lambda event notifications, Athena queries, CloudFront origins — none of which has a direct counterpart here. For storing and serving objects, the API is the same; for an application built on the AWS services around S3, the storage is the easy part.

Scaleway SAS is a French simplified joint-stock company at 8 rue de la Ville-l’Évêque, 75008 Paris, registered at RCS Paris under SIREN 433 115 904. Aude Durand is président and Damien Lucas directeur général; Deloitte & Associés audits the accounts. The general terms of service are governed by French law, and the French text is the authentic version.

Ownership runs through the iliad group to one French family. iliad held 99.56% of Scaleway at 31 December 2025 and consolidates it in full. iliad SA is itself 98.88% owned by iliad Holding, which is more than 95% controlled by Maya, wholly owned by the Niel family group.

Scaleway ended 2024 with 519 staff, down from 548, after its data centre business was carved out into OpCore; iliad sold half of OpCore to the French infrastructure fund InfraVia on 31 March 2025, so the Paris halls DC2 to DC5 are now run by a company Scaleway does not sit above. iliad does not break out Scaleway’s revenue, and the most recent figure in the French register is EUR 103.2 million of turnover for 2022 against a net loss of EUR 8.8 million.

The catalogue covers compute, block and object storage, networking, managed Kubernetes, serverless and GPU capacity across four multi-availability-zone European regions and more than 65 points of presence, with live sites in France, the Netherlands, Poland and Italy and announcements for Sweden and Germany. Scaleway puts its GPU fleet above 5,000 cards. It holds the French ANSSI SecNumCloud qualification alongside ISO 27001, ISO 14001 and ISO 50001, and still trades the Online, Dedibox and BookMyName brands it grew out of.