Understanding Scaleway Organizations and Projects
Organizations and Projects are the 2 structures Scaleway uses to organize access to your account and group your resources. This page gives you an overview of how they work together, and explains the related terminology in a logical order.
Your Organization
When you create a Scaleway account, an Organization is automatically created, of which you are the Owner. As Owner, you have full access and rights to all resources within your Organization, as well as to Organization-level features such as billing and IAM.
Every Organization has an Organization ID, which you can find on the Organization settings page of the console. You can also set an Organization alias as an easier-to-remember alternative to the Organization ID, which Members can use to log in directly. See the How to set an Organization alias documentation for more information.
Group resources into Projects
A Project is a grouping of Scaleway resources, such as Instances, Private Networks, or Kubernetes Kapsule clusters. Each Organization comes with a default Project, and you can create new Projects to organize your infrastructure. Projects are cross-region, so resources located in different regions can belong to the same Project.
Grouping resources into different Projects also lets you use IAM to define custom access rights for each Project, and makes it easier to track resource usage on your invoices. See the How to create a Scaleway Project documentation to create one, and How to add resources to a Project to start populating it.
See the How to change the name of a Project and How to delete a Project documentation for more information on managing existing Projects.
SSH keys
An SSH key allows passwordless connection to an Instance. It consists of a private key, which you keep on your local computer, and a public key, which you upload to the Scaleway console and which is transferred to your Instance during the boot process. See the How to generate an SSH key pair documentation for detailed instructions.
Quotas
Every Organization has quotas, which are limits on the number of Scaleway resources it can use. Quotas apply per product and product type, and are designed to prevent abuse. You can view your quotas on the Organization dashboard of the console.
See the Understanding Organization quotas documentation for the full list of available quotas, and How to manage Organization quotas to view and request an increase for yours.
Secure your Organization
As Organization Owner, you can enforce Multifactor Authentication (MFA) for all Members of your Organization, requiring them to set up a second authentication factor before they can access their account. See the How to enforce Multifactor Authentication for an Organization documentation to set it up.