Find your alternative cloud provider
What are the alternatives to AWS, Google Cloud, Alibaba and Azure?
When choosing a cloud provider, companies of all kinds, big businesses as well as self-financed startups, are all faced with the same choice—which hyperscaler cloud giant to pick—AWS, GCP, Azure or Alibaba? Presumably, with these cloud giants, they can find everything that they need in terms of stable growth, cost control, and complete cloud ecosystems.
However, are these hyperscalers the right choice for you?
Problems you may face with hyperscalers
Unpredictable pricing
Many of the big market players do not state the real price of their services - egress/ingress fees and other hidden costs are not shown to potential customers. In a study by IDC, 99% of cloud storage users claimed to pay planned or unplanned egress fees, which on average contribute for 6% of a company's cloud storage expenses.
What is more, predicting the costs of a hyperscaler is so complex that there are even companies specializing in CSP cost management, that again, cost money.
No vendor lock-in protection
Knowing that a customer is committed to using their services, a provider may increase their pricing, and the costs associated with egress, data retrieval, and API request charges can rise too.
Security issues, on the other hand, are one of the key difficulties associated with vendor lock-in when it comes to hyperscalers. Even the most stringent security measures can be broken into, the best data centers can be taken offline, and the number of cyberattacks is growing every day.
Unresponsive support
Most of the largest companies in the world today are hosted by AWS, GCP and Azure, and contribute the majority of their revenue. As a result, these key clients receive more resources in terms of technical support. For SMBs and startups, it can be difficult to get immediate support from big cloud providers if you are not a priority for them. Also, when you really need the technical support, it can cost you a fortune.
Complex management
Managing user interfaces and selecting products can be very challenging.
The enormous number of services and products offered by hyperscaler cloud providers makes their platforms challenging to use and grasp, analysts warned in Gartner®'s Market Guide for Specialty Cloud Providers.
Why choose Scaleway as the alternative to other cloud providers?
State-of-the-art hardware
Discover the IaaS Compute benchmarkScaleway Instances are powered by hardware that is equivalent to that of hyperscalers.
Our Instances use AMD Gen EPYC™ 7003 Series processors or NVIDIA GPUs . This gives you the same level of performance, with fewer constraints and the best price/performance ratio on the market. Benefit from top hardware at a much more reasonable price.
Control 100% of your costs
Go to pricingPay as you go and free egress! Whether you want to pay by the hour or the month, Scaleway has the plan for you. A variety of computing and managed solutions, available across reliable and redundant regions. Our prices have no hidden costs, and you don't have to worry when you get your bill at the end of the month.
Build scalable infrastructure with essential products
View all our productsA product portfolio from dedicated servers, bare metal, and Instances, to a managed product set with Managed Databases, storage, containers, and Serverless. Our customers benefit from all the essential tools they need to build their infrastructure.
Security and compliance
More about security and resilienceSecurity requirements regarding the protection of data and cloud services, and data centers are essential. That’s why we never compromise on the security and resilience of your data.
Documentation and technical guidance
We help you on your cloud journeyNavigating the cloud can sometimes be complex. Developers need comprehensive documentation, tutorials and guides to help them. We have the right videos, step-by-step tutorials, and guides for you. In dark mode too.
Round-the-clock support
Check out our support plansFor your mission-critical, time-sensitive problems, nothing beats our 24/7 l support
Choose an alternative - build and scale with Scaleway, the cloud of choice
Virtual Machines
From €0.008 ex. VAT/hour
The right Instance for every workload. Start in seconds at unbeatable prices and scale up to resilient production-grade compute power.
Elastic Metal
From €0.111 ex. VAT/hour
Dedicated servers with flexible pricing and native cloud integration. Create the high-performance backbone of your infrastructure.
Managed Kubernetes
Compatible Instances from €0.008 ex. VAT/hour
The easiest way to deploy, manage and scale containers thanks to the latest version of Kubernetes.
Storage & Database
Object Storage: 75GB free then €0.01 ex. VAT/GB/month
Ensuring customer data sovereignty has never been easier. Across our European data centers, get the scalability, resilience and flexibility you need.
Serverless
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Experience an easy way to run your code on the cloud, without configuring or maintaining any infrastructure. Control the resources you pay for down to the second.
Network
Private Network with no egress fees
Improve the speed, performance and security of your infrastructure with VPC Private Networks, VPC Public Gateway and Load Balancer services.