Cloud & hosting

ScalewayvsSTACKIT

On our sovereignty score, STACKIT leads (89 vs 84). Both are European Cloud & hosting providers – which fits better depends on your priorities below.

Score comparison

	Scaleway	STACKIT
Sovereignty	84	89
Privacy	80	84
Open Source	20	10
Business fit	80	78
Migration ease	60	55
Pricing transparency	80	58
Enterprise readiness	80	84

Features & facts

	Scaleway	STACKIT
Country	France	Germany
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	EU (including Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Milan)	Germany and Austria (exclusively)
From	on request	on request
Founded	1999	2018

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

STACKIT

Germany

Sovereign German business cloud from the Schwarz Group with data centers exclusively in Germany and Austria.

Strengths

Data exclusively in DE/AT, 100% GDPR-compliant
BSI C5 Type 2, ISO 27001/20000, ISAE 3000 (SOC 2)/3402
Strong corporate group backing, free data transfer

Weaknesses

Younger provider with a still-growing ecosystem
Prices are less transparently visible publicly

Choose Scaleway if…

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

Choose STACKIT if…

Companies and public authorities with sovereignty requirements
Enterprise workloads with EU data storage

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