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Amazon Web Services vs Scaleway

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Amazon Web Services

Extensive range of managed services, from serverless to databases to queues to video streaming
Several products such as S3 are industry benchmarks
Generous free tier and savings plan available to lock-in discounts
30+ datacenter locations around the world

Scaleway

Plenty managed services available, from queues to serverless to databases
Wide range of server configurations: Bare-metal, ARM, GPUs, Apple silicon
Uncomplicated, easy to use dashboard
Based in Europe, may ease compliance requirements for some

Price comparison

How do Amazon Web Services's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration	Amazon Web Services	Scaleway
VM Small	$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)	$10.85 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium	$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)	$42.32 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large	$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)	$172.53 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage	$8.00 / mo 100 GB	$10.31 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$24.63 / mo 1 TB	$15.73 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer	$12.50 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL	$57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium)	$34.72 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$114.58 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small)	$37.98 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	$36.26 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration	$28.48 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	100 GB / mo	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$92.16	Free for most services

AWS offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	Total GPU Memory	vCPUs	RAM	Price per hour
g5g.xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	4	16GB	$0.42
g4dn.xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	4	16GB	$0.53
g5g.2xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	8	16GB	$0.56
g3s.xlarge	1x M60	8GB	4	30GB	$0.75
g4dn.2xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	8	32GB	$0.75
g5g.4xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	16	16GB	$0.83
p2.xlarge	1x K80	12GB	4	61GB	$0.90
g5.xlarge	1x A10G	24GB	4	16GB	$1.01
g3.4xlarge	1x M60	8GB	16	122GB	$1.14
g4dn.4xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	16	64GB	$1.20
g5.2xlarge	1x A10G	24GB	8	32GB	$1.21
g5g.8xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	32	16GB	$1.37
g5.4xlarge	1x A10G	24GB	16	64GB	$1.62
g4dn.8xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	32	128GB	$2.18
g3.8xlarge	2x M60	16GB	32	244GB	$2.28
g5.8xlarge	1x A10G	24GB	32	128GB	$2.45
g5g.16xlarge	2x T4G	32GB	64	32GB	$2.74
p3.2xlarge	1x V100	16GB	8	61GB	$3.06
g4dn.12xlarge	4x T4G	64GB	48	192GB	$3.91
g5.12xlarge	4x A10G	96GB	48	192GB	$4.10
g4dn.16xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	64	256GB	$4.35
g3.16xlarge	4x M60	32GB	64	488GB	$4.56
g5.16xlarge	2x A10G	48GB	64	256GB	$5.67
p2.8xlarge	8x K80	96GB	32	488GB	$7.20
g4dn.metal	8x T4G	128GB	96	384GB	$7.82
g5.24xlarge	4x A10G	96GB	96	384GB	$8.14
p3.8xlarge	4x V100	64GB	32	244GB	$12.24
p2.16xlarge	16x K80	192GB	64	732GB	$14.40
g5.48xlarge	8x A10G	192GB	192	768GB	$16.29
p3.16xlarge	8x V100	128GB	64	488GB	$24.48
p4d.24xlarge	8x A100	320GB	96	1152GB	$32.77
p5.48xlarge	8x H100	640GB	192	2048GB	$98.32

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	Total GPU Memory	vCPUs	RAM	Price per hour
L4-1-24G	1x L4	24GB	8	48GB	$0.81
GPU-3070	1x RTX3070	8GB	8	16GB	$1.06
Render-S	1x P100	16GB	10	42GB	$1.35
L40S-1-48G	1x L40S	48GB	8	96GB	$1.52
L4-2-24G	2x L4	48GB	16	96GB	$1.63
H100-1-80G	1x H100	80GB	24	240GB	$2.73
L40S-2-48G	2x L40S	96GB	16	192GB	$3.04
L4-4-24G	4x L4	96GB	32	192GB	$3.26
H100-2-80G	2x H100	160GB	48	480GB	$5.47
L40S-4-48G	4x L40S	192GB	32	384GB	$6.08
L4-8-24G	8x L4	192GB	64	384GB	$6.51
L40S-8-48G	8x L40S	384GB	64	768GB	$12.15

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Amazon Web Services and Scaleway offer:

Service	Amazon Web Services	Scaleway
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)		--
Container Registry
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs		--
Serverless Functions
Static Sites		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

	Amazon Web Services	Scaleway
Website	aws.amazon.com	scaleway.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	France 🇫🇷
Founded	2006	1999
Data Center Locations	31	9
Example Customers	Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro	Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

	Amazon Web Services
Website	aws.amazon.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2006
Data Center Locations	31
Example Customers	Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro