Scaleway Object Storage
European-sovereign S3 storage with multi-AZ classes and a real IAM system.
Overall in s3-compatible storage
8of 12 · score 70.8
Data coverage
93%
26 of 28 fields sourced
Best for
- •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
Strong on
- +IAM granularity 4 3/12
Weak on
- −Sydney region No 9/11Better: Wasabi: Yes
- −TTFB from Sydney 300ms 9/10Better: Bunny Storage: 20ms
- −True cost /mo (USD) $72.8/mo 8/9Better: Hetzner Object Storage: $12.47/mo
- −Egress $/TB $11.6/TB 10/11Better: Cloudflare R2: $0/TB
vs Storj
- •Ahead on Lifecycle rules: Yes vs No
- •Ahead on CDN integration: first-party-paid vs partner
- •Behind on Sydney region: No vs Partial
- •Behind on Storage $/TB/mo: $16.94/TB/mo vs $7/TB/mo
How Scaleway Object Storage scores among 12 s3-compatible storage26 of 28 fields known
Pricing10
True cost /mo (AUD)
A$110.66/mo
8/9
Leader: Hetzner Object Storage · A$18.95/mo
· 2026-07-23
True cost from Sydney (AUD)
—
· 2026-07-23
Min retention1st
0ms
1/12
Min billed object1st
0 B
1/12
Features & API11
S3 API coverage
85%
5/12
Leader: AWS S3 · 100%
Presigned URLs1st
Yes
1/12
Multipart upload1st
Yes
1/12
CDN integration
first-party-paid
5/12
Leader: Cloudflare R2 · free-bundled
Max object size1st
5 TB
1/11
IAM granularity3rd
4
3/12
Leader: MinIO · 5
Sydney region
No
9/11
Leader: Wasabi · Yes
· 2026-07-23
TTFB from Sydney
300ms
9/10
Leader: Bunny Storage · 20ms
Durability & Retention4
Durability (nines)1st
11 nines
1/9
· 2026-07-23
Uptime SLA
99.9%
4/11
Leader: Tigris · 99.99%
· 2026-07-23
Agentic1
Official MCP server
No
5/12
Leader: Cloudflare R2 · Yes
Traction1
GA year
2019
6/12
Leader: Tigris · 2024
Positioning1
Positioning
EU-sovereign object storage with AWS-shaped IAM, priced in euros.
Alternatives8
AWS S3
Backblaze B2
Bunny Storage
Cloudflare R2
DigitalOcean Spaces
Hetzner Object Storage
MinIOCompare
Sources6
- www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/storage/6 fields
- www.scaleway.com/en/docs/object-storage/how-to/use-bucket-versioning/1 field
- www.scaleway.com/en/docs/object-storage/how-to/manage-lifecycle-rules/1 field
- www.scaleway.com/en/docs/object-storage/api-cli/using-api-call-list/1 field
- www.scaleway.com/en/docs/object-storage/how-to/use-object-lock/1 field
- www.scaleway.com/en/docs/object-storage/concepts/1 field