Cloud & hosting

IONOSvsScaleway

Both score similarly on sovereignty (80 vs 84). The right choice depends on the details below – open source, self-hosting, pricing and focus.

Score comparison

	IONOS	Scaleway
Sovereignty	80	84
Privacy	75	80
Open Source	10	20
Business fit	80	80
Migration ease	62	60
Pricing transparency	80	80
Enterprise readiness	78	80

Features & facts

	IONOS	Scaleway
Country	Germany	France
Open Source	No	No
Self-Hosting	No	No
Cloud/SaaS	Yes	Yes
EU data residency	Yes	Yes
DPA / AV-Vertrag	Yes	Yes
ISO 27001	Yes	Yes
Data location	Germany/EU (including Frankfurt, Berlin)	EU (including Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Milan)
From	1 € / Monat	on request
Founded	1988	1999

IONOS

Germany

Large German hosting and cloud provider with a broad offering from web hosting to enterprise cloud.

Strengths

Very broad product portfolio, low-cost entry
European data centers, ISO 27001-certified
Sovereign offerings for the public sector

Weaknesses

Product variety can feel confusing
Parts of the infrastructure run in Equinix data centers
Cloud platform is less developer-centric than Scaleway/Hetzner

Scaleway

France

Developer-friendly French cloud (iliad Group) with modern API, Kubernetes and serverless offerings.

Strengths

Modern, developer-friendly API and products
All data centers in Europe; ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, HDS
Serverless and managed Kubernetes offerings, low-cost entry

Weaknesses

Smaller ecosystem than the major hyperscalers
Not all managed services are available at the same maturity level

Choose IONOS if…

SMEs that want hosting and cloud from a single source
Organizations that need sovereign offerings

Choose Scaleway if…

Developers and SaaS teams looking for a modern EU cloud
Cloud-native projects with Kubernetes

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