The past couple of months, I’ve been building infrastructure on Scaleway. As someone who has dabbled in AWS, I’m pleasantly surprised at how straightforward Scaleway is while still offering a large catalog of services that play well together.

It’s not on par with AWS in the number of offerings, but AWS is so overwhelming that I tend to consider that a good thing.

If you’re looking for an EU-based alternative to something like AWS, then Scaleway might be it. I think it is for me.

@simonbs I'm running my website and stuff (like irc.noze.io) on a tiny VM on #Scaleway for some 10+ years. Worked well for me (they originally attracted me w/ cheap $3/m 4-core ARM based dedicated servers). I use their "S3" for SwiftPM Catalog.
But recently they killed my tiny-VM tier ($5/m) and apparently the only "automatic" transition was to a $35/m instance. I wasn't amused. Probably going to switch away over that. To Hetzner I suppose.

@helge Am I reading this wrong or is their smalles instance €0.10 per month? That seems insanely cheap.

https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/virtual-instances/

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@gahms Looks like. The problem for me was more like they forced me into an expensive offering, not that they don’t have affordable offerings anymore.
@helge Ah, IPv4 costs and a disk costs. No way to get below €1 per month and with IPv4 it is €3.89 per month.
@gahms which is still good, but that wasn’t offered to me, so i guess im going to switch
@gahms just to be clear, whether its 5 or 35 is not really meaningful to the services i run on that. what is meaningful is that they bring/force you into the latter. Dark patterns and I don’t want to work with companies doing such 🤷‍♀️
Sole reason #scaleway is a non option/recommendation for me anymore.