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Akamai Cloud (Linode) vs Scaleway: which is more reliable? (2026)
Akamai Cloud (Linode) is more reliable than Scaleway, scoring 43.2 vs 23.7 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Akamai Cloud (Linode) reported 24 incidents and Scaleway reported 99, with effective uptime of 98.26% and 90.56% respectively. Akamai Cloud (Linode) resolves incidents faster on average (14h 19m).
Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Akamai Cloud (Linode) | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 43.2 | 23.7 |
| Rank (cloud providers) | #7 | #9 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 98.26% | 90.56% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 24 | 99 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 9 |
| Avg time to resolve | 14h 19m | 21h 9m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Akamai Cloud (Linode) and Scaleway differ
- Scaleway reported 4.1× as many incidents as Akamai Cloud (Linode) over the last 90 days (99 vs 24).
- Scaleway had 9 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Akamai Cloud (Linode).
- Akamai Cloud (Linode) fixes problems faster: 14h 19m on average, against 21h 9m for Scaleway.
- Akamai Cloud (Linode)'s longest incident on record lasted 3d (Oct 9, 2026); Scaleway's lasted 3d (Jul 9, 2026).
90-day uptime
Akamai Cloud (Linode)
Scaleway
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Akamai Cloud (Linode) incidents
- Degraded performanceNov 2, 2026 · ongoing
Connectivity Issue - FR-PAR-2 (Paris 2)
Affected: FR-PAR-2 (Paris 2)
- InformationalNov 1, 2026 · resolved in 3h 12m
Connectivity Issue - IN-MAA and IN-BOM-2
Affected: IN-MAA (Chennai), IN-BOM-2 (Mumbai 2)
- Degraded performanceOct 31, 2026 · ongoing
Service Issue - US-Southeast (Atlanta)
Affected: US-Southeast (Atlanta)
- InformationalOct 28, 2026 · ongoing
Service Issue - Block Storage (BR-GRU)
Affected: BR-GRU (São Paulo) Block Storage
- Degraded performanceOct 25, 2026 · ongoing
Connectivity Issue between ID-CGK (Jakarta) and SG-SIN-2 (Singapore 2)
Affected: ID-CGK (Jakarta), SG-SIN-2 (Singapore 2)
- InformationalOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 11h 17m
Connectivity Issue - Dallas Data Center (IPv6 Traffic to Google)
Affected: US-Central (Dallas)
Recent Scaleway incidents
- InformationalNov 2, 2026 · ongoing
[BILLING] - Billing consumptions in November are not up-to-date
Affected: Billing
- InformationalNov 2, 2026 · resolved in <1m
[Generative APIs] Model mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506 unavailable.
- Degraded performanceNov 1, 2026 · resolved in <1m
[Container Registry] - FR-PAR - API unreacheable upstream request timeout.
Affected: fr-par-1, fr-par-2, fr-par-3, Container Registry
- Degraded performanceOct 30, 2026 · resolved in 3d 3h
[fr-par] [Serverless SQL DB] Backups will be suspended on Friday and Saturday nights
Affected: Serverless-Database
- Degraded performanceOct 29, 2026 · resolved in <1m
[NL-AMS] - [Serverless Containers] - 20% of client requests failed with HTTP 503 errors
Affected: Serverless Container
- Degraded performanceOct 29, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Block Storage, Databases, Instances
Other cloud providers to consider
- IBM Cloud · #1 · 100% uptime
- Hetzner Cloud · #2 · 99.48% uptime
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) · #3 · 99.43% uptime
- UpCloud · #4 · 99.37% uptime