Scaleway isn't really non-cloud. Their services are very similar to EC2, S3, Glacier etc. I would compare them more with Digital Ocean. They're just cheaper and

Scaleway isn't really non-cloud. Their services are very similar to EC2, S3, Glacier etc. I would compare them more with Digital Ocean. They're just cheaper and you can actually chat with them on slack without going to all the 'raise a ticket' rigmarole that all the big players do. At work I deal with Microsoft's double-outsourced "premium" support which is awful. If the question is not in the docs (in which case I would have found it myself) tickets keep ping-ponging for months without solution, going through the same useless troubleshooting over and over because they keep handing over to different agents. I use scaleway privately only but very happy with them. I wish I had their kind of support from the vendors at work. You can often try out upcoming services for free, too. Hetzner wants a copy of your ID which I was not willing to provide so I couldn't try them. Germans are normally really privacy-conscious so this surprised me. This was > 10 years ago though so perhaps they stopped this practice.