File Storage and Instances selection guidelines

Scaleway File Storage performance (IOPS and throughput) scales linearly with your provisioned capacity. To avoid bottlenecks, you must pair your file system with Instances that matches its performance profile and supports the required number of mount points.

Refer to the dedicated documentation for more information on performance scaling.

Select the right file system capacity for your Instance

To optimize storage costs and avoid throttling your file system at the Instance level, refer to the use cases below to provision a file system with capacity adapted to your requirements.

Small-scale applications and production environments

Ideal for lightweight web servers, small-scale production environments, and low-traffic repositories.

• Provisioning range: 25 GB to 100 GB
• Recommended instances: POP2-2C (or any 2 vCPU General Purpose Instance)

Business applications and production environments

Ideal for medium-sized CMS web applications, application servers, corporate media file sharing, and CI/CD runner cache sharing.

• Provisioning range: 100 GB to 500 GB
• Recommended instances: POP2-4C, STANDARD3-X4C

High-performance and data-intensive workloads

Ideal for AI/ML fine-tuning and inference, video encoding, and throughput-intensive applications.

• Provisioning range: Above 1 TB
• Recommended instances: Any GPU instance, or CPU instances with 8 cores or more.

File system attachments per Instance type

To ensure optimum performance, the number of file systems you can attach to an Instance is limited based on the Instance's configuration.

Use the following Scaleway CLI command to find the maximum number of file systems you can attach to a Scaleway Instance. Make sure to replace the value of the zone parameter with the desired Availability Zone:

scw instance server-type list zone=fr-par-2