OVHcloud vs Scaleway

OVHcloud is strongest for european data residency. Scaleway is strongest for european data residency / GDPR-sensitive workloads. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	OVHcloud	Scaleway
Starting price	$0.01/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	European data residency Cost-conscious scale-outs Managed databases Kubernetes AI/GPU workloads	European data residency / GDPR-sensitive workloads Startups and SMBs GPU/AI workloads Kubernetes
Stated uptime SLA	99.99% (Public Cloud instances, region dependent)	99.9% to 99.99% depending on product tier
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	33	3
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Phone (paid plans)	Ticket, Docs, Community Slack, Status page
Compliance	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (France), HDS (health data hosting, France)	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (French sovereign cloud qualification, select regions), HDS (health data hosting, France)
Hidden costs to watch for	IPv4 addresses billed separately per instance/Local Zone Windows license surcharge of $0.039/vCore/hour on top of base instance price APAC region (India, Singapore, Australia) outbound traffic loses free-egress status after 2026-06-01/2026-12-31 depending on product Object Storage Infrequent Access / Cold Archive / Active Archive have data-retrieval fees and minimum storage durations (30-180 days) with early-deletion penalties	Public internet egress from Object Storage: 75 GB free per month, then EUR 0.01/GB Windows Server licensing surcharge on POP2-*-WIN instance variants (roughly 2.5x the equivalent Linux instance price) Dedicated Kubernetes control plane is a paid add-on (~EUR 80/month) above the free mutualized control plane if higher SLA/isolation is needed Snapshot storage for Block Storage billed separately per GB-hour Glacier (cold) Object Storage restoration fee: EUR 0.009/GB
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18