General Purpose Instances
Production-grade cloud instances designed for scalable infrastructure.
Starting at
€39
per month
or €0.078/hour
High-end Specifications
Up to 48 vCPUs, 256 GB of DDR4 ECC memory and 600 GB of replicated local NVMe SSD
Unlimited Free Transfer
Between 500 Mbit/s and 10 Gbit/s of bandwidth for free without any transfer limit
99.99 % Availability Guaranteed
A 99.99 % service level agreement (SLA) guaranteeing high availability of your infrastructure
Use Cases for General Purpose Instances
Critical Production Environment
General Purpose Instances have been designed to host your production environments with a service level agreement (SLA) of 99.99 %. You can run servers in seconds directly from the console or using the command-line interface (CLI) and create fleets of instances customizing first boot with the cloud-init standard.
High Performance Computing
With high-end AMD EPYC cores and local NVMe SSD storage, General Purpose Instances are ready to host your high computing workloads. You can use them for batch processing, parallel computing or data manipulation, whether it is one-time or recurring. Depending on your needs, you can scale up or down in a minute.
Business Services
General Purpose Instances can securely run your business applications as your customer-relationship management (CRM) or your enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. You can restrict access to your instances using security groups and backup or restore your data in a few clicks. Also, that data can easily be stored on our Object Storage.
Simple & Predictable Pricing
General Purpose Instances are billed by the hour with a monthly capping. They include a server, a volume and an IPv4 to let you run your applications, processes and services with ease.
Name | vCPUs | RAM | SSD | Bandwidth | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GP1-XS | 4 vCPUs | 16 GB | 150 GB NVMe | 500 Mbit/s | €39/month €0.078/hour |
GP1-S | 8 vCPUs | 32 GB | 300 GB NVMe | 800 Mbit/s | €79/month €0.158/hour |
GP1-M | 16 vCPUs | 64 GB | 600 GB NVMe | 1.5 Gbit/s | €159/month €0.318/hour |
GP1-L | 32 vCPUs | 128 GB | 600 GB NVMe | 5 Gbit/s | €299/month €0.598/hour |
GP1-XL | 48 vCPUs | 256 GB | 600 GB NVMe | 10 Gbit/s | €569/month €1.138/hour |
Innovative Brands Turn to Scaleway Elements Instances
Aternos Tells Us About Its Scaleway Experience
“Thanks to the Scaleway’s cloud instances we were able to reduce the waiting time for our users from several hours to just a few minutes. This experience really made all the difference for us.” Matthias Neid CEO of Aternos
Powerful Tools at Your Disposal
Customize First Boot
First boot of your General Purpose Instances can be customized using the cloud-init standard. It allows to create clones and scale your infrastructure easily.
Backup & Restore
You can backup and restore your General Purpose Instances at any time, directly from the console. This lets you revert your servers if needed or create replicas at a glance.
Stateful Firewall
With security groups, you can define network rules and policies. It allows you to choose who can access to your server and which which ports can be open to the world.
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