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May 8, 2026 |

Scaleway 7: Getting Started with Scaleway – Free Credits, Trials, and First Steps

Scaleway 7: Getting Started with Scaleway – Free Credits, Trials, and First Steps The earlier posts in this series covered the data sovereignty case, the service comparison, the cost picture, and the migration process. This final post focuses on the practical starting point: how to create an account, what credits are available, and how to begin evaluating Scaleway against your current AWS setup. Creating a Scaleway Account Scaleway offers two account types: Personal and Business. If you are planning to run production workloads or give a team access, Business is the right option. A new Scaleway Business account comes with
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May 8, 2026 |

Scaleway 6: Scaleway for Regulated Industries – GDPR, DORA, and Public Sector

Scaleway 6: Scaleway for Regulated Industries – GDPR, DORA, and Public Sector Not every cloud migration is driven by cost or convenience alone. For businesses in regulated industries, choosing a cloud provider is as much a compliance decision as it is a technology decision. This post looks at how Scaleway’s SEAL 3 status and European ownership structure help address the specific obligations faced by organisations in financial services, healthcare, legal services, and the public sector. GDPR and Cloud Provider Jurisdiction GDPR places obligations on the transfer of personal data to countries outside the European Economic Area. When a European business
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May 8, 2026 |

Scaleway 5: Migrating from AWS to Scaleway – A Step-by-Step Checklist

Scaleway 5: Migrating from AWS to Scaleway – A Step-by-Step Checklist A cloud migration is a project, not a single event. Done well, it is methodical, low risk, and mostly invisible to end users. Done badly, it becomes a string of outages and rollbacks. This checklist covers the sequence that tends to work best: audit first, run systems in parallel where the risk justifies it, and only cut over when you are ready. This is a general sequence for standard web application and data workloads. Your own architecture may need extra steps, so use this as a framework rather than
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May 4, 2026 |

Scaleway 3: The CLOUD Act Problem – What It Means for Your AWS Data

Scaleway 3: The CLOUD Act Problem — What It Means for Your AWS Data Most European AWS users are broadly aware that US law can extend to US companies operating in Europe. Far fewer have read the CLOUD Act itself or looked closely at what it actually allows. This post explains what the law does, what it does not do, and what it means in practice for European businesses using AWS. What the CLOUD Act Actually Says The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act became US law in 2018. Its core provision is simple: American companies must comply with
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May 2, 2026 |

Scaleway 2: Scaleway vs AWS – Core Services Compared

Scaleway 2: Scaleway vs AWS – Core Services Compared If you have built on AWS, you already know the service names. When you start looking at an alternative, the first practical question is usually simple: what replaces what? This post answers that by covering the core services that appear in most AWS architectures. Scaleway does not mirror every AWS service, and no provider really does. But for standard production workloads, the key equivalents are there, and in a number of cases the Scaleway option is simpler, cheaper, or both. Compute: EC2 → Scaleway Virtual Instances AWS EC2 sits at the
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May 1, 2026 |

Scaleway 1: Why European Businesses Are Moving Away from AWS

Scaleway 1: Why European Businesses Are Moving Away from AWS AWS holds roughly a third of the global cloud market. Its infrastructure is reliable, its documentation is strong, and its range of services is genuinely impressive. None of that is really in question. The issue is not whether AWS is good at what it does. The real question is whether a US company, regardless of where it physically stores your data, is the right fit for European businesses operating under GDPR, handling sensitive personal data, or working in regulated industries. More and more, the answer is no. The Problem Is
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April 20, 2026 |

STACKIT 7: Getting Started with STACKIT : Trials, Onboarding, and First Steps

STACKIT 7: Getting Started – Trials, Onboarding, and First Steps STACKIT is an enterprise cloud platform, and its onboarding experience reflects that. Unlike fully self serve cloud providers, where you can have an instance running within minutes of entering a credit card, STACKIT account provisioning goes through a sales and onboarding process. For the target audience, businesses in regulated industries, enterprises with DORA or BSI C5 requirements, and organisations that need documented sovereignty credentials, this is not a drawback. A structured onboarding process gives you a real relationship with STACKIT’s team, documented service agreements, and clear escalation paths. That is
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April 13, 2026 |

STACKIT 6: STACKIT for Financial Services and the Public Sector

STACKIT 6: STACKIT for Financial Services and the Public Sector STACKIT’s compliance posture was built for some of the most demanding regulatory environments in Europe. As a result, it is a cloud platform that is particularly well suited to financial services, the public sector, and any organisation where cloud provider compliance is not optional. Financial Services: DORA and ICT Risk The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) has applied to EU financial services firms since January 2025. It sets mandatory requirements for ICT risk management, third-party provider oversight, and operational resilience. For financial services organisations using AWS, DORA raises several questions
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April 12, 2026 |

STACKIT 5: Migrating from AWS to STACKIT: A Practical Checklist

STACKIT 5: Migrating from AWS to STACKIT: A Practical Checklist Moving from AWS to STACKIT is a planned infrastructure migration, not something you try to force through over a weekend. The process is structured, the risks are manageable, and for most standard workloads the final cutover can usually be measured in minutes rather than hours. This checklist covers the full sequence. One STACKIT-specific note before the phases: STACKIT onboarding is more enterprise-focused than some cloud providers. New customer accounts are provisioned through a STACKIT sales process rather than a fully self-serve sign-up. Please build that into your timeline; account provisioning
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April 8, 2026 |

STACKIT 4: STACKIT Pricing vs AWS What You Actually Save

STACKIT 4: STACKIT Pricing vs AWS — What You Actually Save STACKIT’s main value lies in data sovereignty and compliance, not just lower cost. But the two are not at odds with each other. For standard workloads, STACKIT pricing is meaningfully lower than AWS across the services that typically make up most of a cloud bill. This post uses percentages instead of specific figures. Cloud pricing changes regularly, and any exact numbers published today can look outdated quite quickly. Treat these percentages as directional guidance, then check STACKIT’s current pricing pages and compare them directly with your AWS bills before
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April 7, 2026 |

STACKIT 3: Data Sovereignty, CLOUD Act, and DORA Compliance with STACKIT

STACKIT 3: Data Sovereignty, CLOUD Act, and DORA Compliance with STACKIT The compliance case for STACKIT rests on two things: its legal ownership structure and its certifications. This post looks at both what they mean in practice, what they enable, and why they matter for businesses operating in regulated industries. The CLOUD Act and Why Ownership Matters More Than Location The CLOUD Act, or the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act, was signed into US law in 2018. It gives US federal authorities the power to compel American companies to produce data held anywhere in the world. The law
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April 5, 2026 |

STACKIT 2: STACKIT vs AWS Core Services Compared

STACKIT 2: STACKIT vs AWS — Core Services Compared If you have built your infrastructure on AWS, the first practical question when looking at STACKIT is simple: what replaces what? This post maps STACKIT’s core services against their AWS equivalents. STACKIT does not mirror every service in the AWS catalogue, but for standard production workloads, the coverage is strong. Compute: EC2 → STACKIT Compute Engine STACKIT Compute Engine provides virtual machine instances built on OpenStack Nova. The configuration model is familiar: you choose vCPUs, RAM, and a boot image, much like you would with EC2. Flavours, which are the OpenStack
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