What's good about...

Amazon Web Services logo Amazon Web Services

  • Extensive range of managed services, from serverless to databases to queues to video streaming
  • Generous free tier and savings plan available to lock-in discounts
  • 30+ datacenter locations around the world

Amazon Web Services logo 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) $11.32 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium $119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge) $44.14 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large $248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge) $179.94 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage $8.00 / mo 100 GB $10.75 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $24.63 / mo 1 TB $16.41 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer $22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer $13.04 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL $57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium) $36.21 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $24.82 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small) $39.61 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions $36.26 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration $29.71 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance 100 GB / mo --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $90.00 $0.09 / GB (North America) Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

AWS GPUs

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
g4ad.xlarge 1x Radeon Pro V520 8GB 4 16GB $0.38 Source
g5g.xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 4 16GB $0.42 Source
g4dn.xlarge 1x T4 16GB 4 16GB $0.53 Source
g4ad.2xlarge 1x Radeon Pro V520 8GB 8 32GB $0.54 Source
g5g.2xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 8 16GB $0.56 Source
g3s.xlarge 1x M60 8GB 4 30GB $0.75 Source
g4dn.2xlarge 1x T4 16GB 8 32GB $0.75 Source
g6.xlarge 1x L4 24GB 4 16GB $0.80 Source
g5g.4xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 16 32GB $0.83 Source
g4ad.4xlarge 1x Radeon Pro V520 8GB 16 64GB $0.87 Source
p2.xlarge 1x K80 12GB 4 61GB $0.90 Source
g6.2xlarge 1x L4 24GB 8 32GB $0.98 Source
g5.xlarge 1x A10G 24GB 4 16GB $1.01 Source
g3.4xlarge 1x M60 8GB 16 122GB $1.14 Source
g4dn.4xlarge 1x T4 16GB 16 64GB $1.20 Source
g5.2xlarge 1x A10G 24GB 8 32GB $1.21 Source
g6.4xlarge 1x L4 24GB 16 64GB $1.32 Source
g5g.8xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 32 64GB $1.37 Source
g5.4xlarge 1x A10G 24GB 16 64GB $1.62 Source
g4ad.8xlarge 2x Radeon Pro V520 16GB 32 128GB $1.73 Source
g6e.xlarge 1x L40S 48GB 4 32GB $1.87 Source
g6.8xlarge 1x L4 24GB 32 128GB $2.01 Source
g4dn.8xlarge 1x T4 16GB 32 128GB $2.18 Source
g6e.2xlarge 1x L40S 48GB 8 64GB $2.24 Source
g3.8xlarge 2x M60 16GB 32 244GB $2.28 Source
g5.8xlarge 1x A10G 24GB 32 128GB $2.45 Source
g5g.16xlarge 2x T4G 32GB 64 128GB $2.74 Source
g5g.metal 2x T4G 32GB 64 128GB $2.74 Source
g6e.4xlarge 1x L40S 48GB 16 128GB $3.00 Source
p3.2xlarge 1x V100 16GB 8 61GB $3.06 Source
g6.16xlarge 1x L4 24GB 64 256GB $3.40 Source
g4ad.16xlarge 4x Radeon Pro V520 32GB 64 256GB $3.47 Source
g4dn.12xlarge 4x T4 64GB 48 192GB $3.91 Source
g5.16xlarge 1x A10G 24GB 64 256GB $4.10 Source
g4dn.16xlarge 1x T4 16GB 64 256GB $4.35 Source
g6e.8xlarge 1x L40S 48GB 32 256GB $4.53 Source
g3.16xlarge 4x M60 32GB 64 488GB $4.56 Source
g6.12xlarge 4x L4 96GB 48 192GB $4.60 Source
g5.12xlarge 4x A10G 96GB 48 192GB $5.67 Source
g6.24xlarge 4x L4 96GB 96 384GB $6.68 Source
p2.8xlarge 8x K80 96GB 32 488GB $7.20 Source
g6e.16xlarge 1x L40S 48GB 64 512GB $7.58 Source
g4dn.metal 8x T4 128GB 96 384GB $7.82 Source
g5.24xlarge 4x A10G 96GB 96 384GB $8.14 Source
g6e.12xlarge 4x L40S 192GB 48 384GB $10.49 Source
p3.8xlarge 4x V100 64GB 32 244GB $12.24 Source
g6.48xlarge 8x L4 192GB 192 768GB $13.35 Source
p2.16xlarge 16x K80 192GB 64 732GB $14.40 Source
g6e.24xlarge 4x L40S 192GB 96 768GB $15.07 Source
g5.48xlarge 8x A10G 192GB 192 768GB $16.29 Source
p3.16xlarge 8x V100 128GB 64 488GB $24.48 Source
g6e.48xlarge 8x L40S 384GB 192 1536GB $30.13 Source
p3dn.24xlarge 8x V100 256GB 96 768GB $31.21 Source
p4d.24xlarge 8x A100 320GB 96 1152GB $32.77 Source
p5e.48xlarge 8x H200 1128GB 192 2048GB $84.80 Source
p5.48xlarge 8x H100 640GB 192 2048GB $98.32 Source

Scaleway GPUs

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
L4-1-24G 1x L4 24GB 8 48GB $0.90 Launch
GPU-3070 1x RTX 3070 8GB 8 16GB $1.11 Source
Render-S 1x P100 16GB 10 42GB $1.40 Source
L40S-1-48G 1x L40S 48GB 8 48GB $1.61 Launch
L4-2-24G 2x L4 48GB 16 96GB $1.72 Launch
H100-1-80G 1x H100 80GB 24 240GB $2.85 Launch
L40S-2-48G 2x L40S 96GB 16 192GB $3.15 Launch
L4-4-24G 4x L4 96GB 32 192GB $3.37 Source
H100-2-80G 2x H100 160GB 48 480GB $5.70 Launch
L40S-4-48G 4x L40S 192GB 32 384GB $6.23 Source
L4-8-24G 8x L4 192GB 64 384GB $6.67 Launch
L40S-8-48G 8x L40S 384GB 64 768GB $12.39 Launch

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

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Our data for Amazon Web Services was last updated on May 19, 2025, and for Scaleway on Sept. 28, 2024.