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Scaleway Elastic Metal

by Scaleway · 🇫🇷 France

Elastic Metal is Scaleway's dedicated server range, rented by the hour or month rather than on a long contract, with no hypervisor between the customer and the hardware. It sits in the same regions as the rest of Scaleway's estate.

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A European alternative to AWS Bare Metal.

How the EU-ness score breaks down

Each criterion is worth a fixed number of points, multiplied by how good the evidence is and how recently it was checked. Read the full rubric.

  • Where it is built

    Not documented0 / 20 pts

    Where does the engineering team that builds this sit?

  • Data hosting

    Verified20 / 20 pts

    Data hosted in France, Netherlands, Poland

    • scaleway.com · producer · checked 2026-08-02

      “A region is a geographical area such as France (Paris: fr-par), the Netherlands (Amsterdam: nl-ams), or Poland (Warsaw: pl-waw) in which Scaleway products and resources are located.”

  • Company headquarters

    Verified15 / 15 pts

    Headquartered in France

    • scaleway.com · producer · checked 2026-08-02

      “Registered office: 8, rue de la Ville-l'Évêque, 75008 Paris, France”

  • Ownership & control

    Verified20 / 20 pts

    EU-owned, privately held (parent: iliad Group)

    • scaleway.com · producer · checked 2026-08-02

      “A subsidiary of the iliad Group , Scaleway currently operates in France, Poland, Italy, and the Netherlands, with upcoming deployments in Sweden and Germany.”

  • Legal jurisdiction

    Not documented0 / 15 pts

    Could a non-EU government compel access to this data?

  • Underlying infrastructure

    Not documented0 / 10 pts

    Does it run on European infrastructure, or on a US hyperscaler?

Documented quality

Not a review score. These are things a maker either publishes and commits to, or does not — warranty length, spare parts, certifications, support windows.

  • Open source

    Not documented0 / 20 pts

    Can the code be inspected and self-hosted?

  • Data portability

    Not documented0 / 15 pts

    Can you export your data in an open format and leave?

  • Independent certification

    Not documented0 / 30 pts

    Has an outside body certified anything about this product?

  • Support & maintenance

    Not documented0 / 15 pts

    How long are updates and security fixes guaranteed?

Where it comes from

Designed in
Not documented
Developed in
Not documented
Data hosted inVerified
FranceNetherlandsPoland

Who is behind it

French cloud computing company offering infrastructure as a service, bare metal servers, and object storage.

Legal entity
Scaleway SAS
Founded
1999
Headquarters
FranceVerified

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