About Scaleway
Scaleway Development instances
Scaleway (Iliad / France) is a European public cloud with Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw zones. The cheap x86 line that still behaves like a VPS is Development: DEV1-S is 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 Mbps, about €6.55/month on the instance API (hourly with a monthly equivalent). DEV1-M / DEV1-L step to 4 GB and 8 GB.
This is not Hostinger: billing is cloud-native, images are Ubuntu-first, and you can grow into Object Storage, Kubernetes (Kapsule) and Bare Metal. The trade-off versus Hetzner Cloud is less RAM per euro and a 200–400 Mbps cap on DEV1. Stardust-class micros were retired from the public instance catalog we queried in 2026; DEV1-S is the honest entry SKU.
Pick Scaleway for EU data residency and a full cloud toolbox. Pick Hetzner CX if you only need a fat KVM in Falkenstein or Helsinki.
