Scaleway Object Storage

Scaleway Object Storage — European-sovereign S3 storage with multi-AZ classes and a real IAM system. Scaleway offers a properly featured S3 implementation — versioning, object lock, lifecycle rules, multi-AZ and single-zone classes, a Glacier tier — behind a genuine IAM policy engine with applications, groups and policies. It is priced in euros and hosted only in France, the Netherlands and Poland, which makes it a strong choice for EU data residency and a weak one for anything served to Australia. Built by Scaleway. Founded 1999.

We track it in 1 comparison — S3-compatible storage — so every claim below is a cell in a table you can open and check rather than an impression. Across those rosters it sits against 11 other tools, and what follows is where it visibly separates from them.

Where it gives ground.

• Sydney region — No. Wasabi records Yes.
• TTFB from Sydney — 300 ms, 9th of 10. Bunny Storage records 20 ms.
• Storage $/TB/mo — $16.94 /TB/mo, 8th of 11. Storj records $4 /TB/mo.

None of these disqualify it on their own. They are the fields to check against your own requirements before you commit, because they are the ones where a competitor genuinely does better.

Provenance. 25 of 28 tracked fields carry a value for Scaleway Object Storage, and 9 of those cite a document you can open. Last verified 2026-07-23. Every figure keeps its own provenance — measured by us, claimed by the vendor, inferred, or community-reported — and we would rather print a dash than a guess.

Its nearest neighbour in our data is AWS S3. Scaleway Object Storage is ahead on Egress $/TB ($11.6 /TB against $90 /TB) and True cost /mo (USD) ($72.8 /mo against $472.6 /mo). AWS S3 takes Sydney region (Yes against No) and TTFB from Sydney (25 ms against 300 ms). That pattern repeats across the rest of the roster — see Scaleway Object Storage alternatives for the other rivals, each compared the same way.

Company

Scaleway

Founded

1999

Fields we track

25 of 28

Last verified

2026-07-23

The most feature-complete of the non-hyperscalers — genuine IAM, multi-AZ placement, object lock, real lifecycle rules — and irrelevant for Australian traffic at 300 ms away. Pick it when EU data residency is a requirement rather than a preference.

Sydney region

○No9th of 11

Inferredverified 2026-07-23

TTFB from Sydney

300 ms9th of 10

Inferred

True cost /mo (USD)

$72.8 /mo8th of 9

Inferredverified 2026-07-23source

Egress $/TB

$11.6 /TB10th of 11

Inferredverified 2026-07-23source

S3 API coverage

85 %5th of 12

Inferred

True cost /mo (AUD)

A$110.66 /mo8th of 9

Inferredverified 2026-07-23

Storage $/TB/mo

$16.94 /TB/mo8th of 11

Inferredverified 2026-07-23source

CDN integration

first-party-paid5th of 12

Inferred

Scaleway Object Storage is the right call in these situations, each one drawn from a field we actually record:

• EU data residency obligations with a European legal entity behind them.
• Workloads needing real IAM policies rather than scoped access keys.
• Multi-AZ durability without hyperscaler pricing.

Reach for something else when any of the following is a requirement rather than a nice-to-have:

• Sydney region. Scaleway Object Storage records No on the S3-compatible storage table. Wasabi records Yes on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• TTFB from Sydney. Scaleway Object Storage records 300 ms, 9th of 10 in the S3-compatible storage roster. Bunny Storage records 20 ms on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• Storage $/TB/mo. Scaleway Object Storage records $16.94 /TB/mo, 8th of 11 in the S3-compatible storage roster. Storj records $4 /TB/mo on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.

We publish this block because a comparison that only lists what a tool is good at is marketing. Every figure above sits on the same page as its source, and the field definitions are on the category tables if you want to check how we measured them.

What we don't know. 3 of the 28 fields we track for Scaleway Object Storage are still blank: True cost from Sydney (AUD), Egress cap (x stored) and Event notifications. Those render as dashes rather than as zeroes or assumptions, because an empty cell and a bad cell are not the same thing and only one of them is honest. If you know any of these figures and can point at a document, tell us.