STACKIT vs Scaleway

STACKIT and Scaleway both land on Depends.

STACKIT

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy it if EU data sovereignty, German legal jurisdiction, or government customers drive your infrastructure decisions and you have engineers to run raw IaaS.

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Scaleway

scaleway.com

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy if you're a cost-conscious EU dev team or startup wanting transparent cloud with data residency.

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STACKIT versus Scaleway
Compare	STACKIT	Scaleway
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	EU data-sovereignty workloads	EU startups needing data residency
Who it's not for	Small teams needing one simple server . Hetzner is cheaper and easier	US-centric teams needing AWS ecosystem depth
Privacy	Strong sovereignty and compliance positioning (KMS, secrets manager, CrowdStrike partnership), but one critical public CVE in 2026.	Active trust program with published pentests and CSIRT, but a disclosed 2023 ESXi breach and a Paris-region API/DHCP incident.
Support quality	No usable evidence in sources	Users report terrible support and poor incident handling
Public sentiment	Redditors highlight strong European security and pricing gestures, comparison sites say buyers praise STACKIT, while community threads debate EU cloud maturity.^¹	Reviews are polarized: developers praise pricing and the EU focus while others report price hikes, data loss, and weak support.¹⁴
Biggest gotcha	Patch and restrict service accounts: 2026 privilege-escalation CVE in the IaaS API	Price hike announced effective June 1st, 2026¹⁶

Pick STACKIT when

EU data-sovereignty workloads
Government and regulated industries
Teams leaving AWS/Azure for compliance
German-market enterprise IT

When STACKIT is not a fit

Small teams needing one simple server . Hetzner is cheaper and easier
Non-EU teams with no sovereignty requirements
Startups needing hyperscaler managed-service breadth (AI, serverless)
Teams with no DevOps capacity . this is raw IaaS, you operate it

Pick Scaleway when

EU startups needing data residency
Cost-conscious developers vs AWS pricing
Kubernetes and object storage workloads
AI/GPU experimentation on a budget

When Scaleway is not a fit

US-centric teams needing AWS ecosystem depth
Anyone relying on fast, quality support
Teams burned by surprise price increases
Enterprises requiring long spotless security records

Sources

STACKIT - The German business cloud (Reddit)reddit.com
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Which Cloud is Cheaper? AWS, Azure, GCP, and Stackitmedium.com
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Stackit Reviews on G2g2.com
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STACKIT vs Cast AI (RFP.wiki)rfp.wiki
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STACKIT price overviewstackit.com
official
STACKIT Cloud Pricing Calculatorcalculator.stackit.cloud
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CVE-2026-39910: STACKIT IaaS API Privilege Escalationsentinelone.com
security
Four Zero-Days in STACKIT Cloud (video)youtube.com
security
STACKIT becomes the Dutch government's official cloud alternativestackit.com
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Schwarz Group opens German Cloud STACKITgruppe.schwarz
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Open Telekom Cloud, STACKIT, and OVHcloud in Focusxomnia.com
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STACKIT Terraform providerregistry.terraform.io
official
Scaleway Seller Reviews . G2g2.com
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Scaleway Reviews . Trustpilottrustpilot.com
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Scaleway Object Storage failure thread . Reddit r/DataHoarderreddit.com
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Price hike announcement . Reddit r/sysadminreddit.com
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