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Scaleway makes a serious argument about European data sovereignty and backs it with real engineering. It is worth being precise about what that argument covers, because it is often read as something adjacent that it is not.
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Not what each of us believes. Every row below is a page you can open on either site, or an answer that is not there.
| Published? | Scaleway | DediPrivacy |
|---|---|---|
| Sign up without identity documents No name, no address, no document, at any spend level. | No | Published |
| Settles in cryptocurrency Accepted as payment, not as a gift-card workaround. | No | Published |
| Accepts Monero The only widely accepted asset that is private by default. | No | Published |
| Every price published The whole catalogue on a page, with no “contact us” tier. | Published | Published |
| Signed warrant canary Cryptographically signed, dated, and on a schedule. | Not published | Published |
| Transparency report with figures Notices received, and how many were acted on. | Not published | Published |
| Law-enforcement guide published The inventory of records that exist, before you ask. | Partly | Published |
| Log retention stated as a number Hours or days, not “minimal” or “as required”. | Partly | Published |
| A separate legal entity per jurisdiction So a judgment in one country does not reach the servers in another. | No | Published |
| Uptime SLA credited automatically Credited from the published incident record, with no claim form. | Partly | Published |
| DDoS mitigation included On every product, at no extra charge, with no protected-IP upsell. | Partly | Published |
| Bare metal, GPU and colocation Beyond virtual machines, on the same account and policy. | Partly | Published |
On eleven of the twelve rows above, this estate publishes an answer and we could not find one published there. Tell us if a row is wrong
Scaleway’s argument is about which government can compel a provider to hand over data — specifically, keeping European data out of reach of American extraterritorial demands. That is a real and valuable property, and for a European enterprise it is often the deciding one.
It is a different property from resisting a content complaint. A French company under French process is well protected from an American subpoena and entirely reachable by a French court. If your concern is a complainant rather than a government, the useful question is how many separate courts stand between them and the disk — which is what eight companies in eight countries answers.
European sovereignty says nothing about whether the provider knows who you are. Scaleway is a conventional identified relationship; here there is no name to hold in the first place, which is a stronger form of the same idea and a much narrower product.
From American demands, meaningfully so. From European ones, no — and GDPR is a rulebook about processing rather than a shield against a court.
No. The catalogue is servers, storage and racks. If you need a managed Postgres, Scaleway is the better buy.
Buy theirs instead if
That list is here because a comparison that cannot name a reason to buy the other one is an advertisement. If any of those three is you, they are the better buy and this page has done its job.
Every price on this estate is published in full, in one place. See the whole catalogue
Good engineering, and a compliance department. What changes when the company holding your disk is answerable where the complaint is filed.
