Scaleway, founded in 1999 and backed by a €3 billion investment from the Iliad Group, operates as a European cloud infrastructure provider with a sovereignty-first posture. The company runs bare metal servers, AI GPU clusters, and a full cloud ecosystem across data centers on the continent, serving 38,000 customers in 160 countries. Its infrastructure claims a PUE of 1.15 - lowest in Europe - which matters when you're defending a threat surface that includes supply-chain jurisdiction and data residency risk.
The security challenge here is structural: operating a sovereign cloud means every layer - from physical hardware to API endpoints - must meet European regulatory standards without the abstraction of hyperscaler opacity. That means securing bare metal workloads, hardening multi-tenant AI infrastructure, and building native tooling for customers managing multi-cloud architectures. The attack surface spans hardware-level exploits, GPU cluster orchestration, and the data pipelines feeding AI training workloads.
A team of 550+ cloud experts works across these domains, with technical stacks rooted in bare metal provisioning, cloud-native infrastructure, and AI-optimized compute. The company's stated principles - sovereignty, sustainability, simplicity - translate into concrete engineering constraints: you don't get to outsource trust to a U.S. hyperscaler, and you don't get to ignore energy efficiency as a security variable. The work is European-scale infrastructure defense, built on the premise that jurisdiction is a security control.
