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Google Cloud vs Scaleway: which is more reliable? (2026)
Google Cloud is more reliable than Scaleway, scoring 56.4 vs 23.9 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Google Cloud reported 4 incidents and Scaleway reported 98, with effective uptime of 98.90% and 90.56% respectively. Google Cloud resolves incidents faster on average (10h 56m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Google Cloud | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 56.4 | 23.9 |
| Rank (cloud providers) | #5 | #9 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 98.90% | 90.56% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 4 | 98 |
| Partial / major outages | 4 | 10 |
| Avg time to resolve | 10h 56m | 20h 32m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Google Cloud and Scaleway differ
- Scaleway reported 24.5× as many incidents as Google Cloud over the last 90 days (98 vs 4).
- Scaleway had 10 partial or major outages, compared with 4 for Google Cloud.
- Google Cloud fixes problems faster: 10h 56m on average, against 20h 32m for Scaleway.
- Google Cloud's longest outage on record lasted 3d (Jun 5, 2026); Scaleway's lasted 3d (Jul 9, 2026).
90-day uptime
Google Cloud
Scaleway
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Google Cloud incidents
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 6h 8m
Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.official update ↗
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore +32 more
- Partial outageOct 8, 2026 · resolved in 1d 5h
Google Cloud Storage (GCS) customers experienced elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations.official update ↗
Affected: Google Cloud Storage
- Partial outageSep 1, 2026 · resolved in 4h 10m
Multiple products in us-central1-b are experiencing network service degradation.official update ↗
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Run, Cloud Spanner +10 more
- Major outageAug 20, 2026 · resolved in 3h 40m
We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region.official update ↗
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee Edge Public Cloud, Apigee X, Artifact Registry, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Build +21 more
Recent Scaleway incidents
- 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 · ongoing
[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] - 20% of client requests failed with HTTP 503 errors
Affected: Serverless Container
- Degraded performanceOct 29, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Block Storage, Databases, Instances
- Partial outageOct 29, 2026 · resolved in 1d
[fr-par] [Serverless SQL DB] All SQL databases are unavailableofficial update ↗
Affected: Serverless-Database
- Degraded performanceOct 29, 2026 · resolved in 14m
[TEM] - TEM IP address blacklist
Affected: Transactional Email
Other cloud providers to consider
- IBM Cloud · #1 · 100% uptime
- Hetzner Cloud · #2 · 99.59% uptime
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) · #3 · 99.43% uptime
- UpCloud · #4 · 99.37% uptime