Nine vs Scaleway

Nine – Swiss-made Cloud Mastery

Nine is an application platform by Nine Internet Solutions in Switzerland. While Nine Internet Solutions offers classic colocation and managed hosting solutions, the distinctive product is the Deploio application engine.

Nine is currently brought to the world from two data centers in the Zürich region in Switzerland.

Scaleway – Europe’s empowering cloud provider

Scaleway is cloud provider with a good set of higher-level services, such as managed AI and serverless services services, e.g. a serverless container service and a serverless database.

With a history going back to 1999, Scaleway has a proven track record and has one of the most advanced cloud service portfolios in the European landscape.

Scaleway
  • Headquarters8th arrondissement of Paris, France
  • Parent companyIliad Group
  • Cloud since2015
  • Websitewww.scaleway.com

Product Comparison

CategoryServiceNine – Swiss-made Cloud MasteryScaleway – Europe’s empowering cloud provider
Bare MetalBare Metal Instance—Elastic Metal AluminiumElastic Metal Aluminium
Elastic Metal TitaniumElastic Metal Titanium
Elastic Metal LithiumElastic Metal Lithium
DedirackDedirack
Dedibox GPUDedibox GPU
Mac mini M1Mac mini M1
Elastic Metal IridiumElastic Metal Iridium
Dedibox CoreDedibox Core
Elastic Metal BerylliumElastic Metal Beryllium
Dedibox StoreDedibox Store
Mac mini M2 ProMac mini M2 Pro
Mac mini M2Mac mini M2
Dedibox StartDedibox Start
Dedibox ProDedibox Pro
Mac mini M4Mac mini M4
ComputeCompute InstanceManaged ServersManaged Servers
Root ServersRoot Servers		Cost-Optimized InstancesCost-Optimized Instances
Learning InstancesLearning Instances
Workload-Optimized InstancesWorkload-Optimized Instances
Production-Optimized InstancesProduction-Optimized Instances
GPU InstanceGPU ServerGPU ServerGPU-3070 InstancesGPU-3070 Instances
GPU Render InstancesGPU Render Instances
Serverless Function—Serverless FunctionsServerless Functions
ContainersContainer RegistryContainer RegistryContainer RegistryContainer RegistryContainer Registry
KubernetesManaged GKEManaged GKE
Nine Kubernetes EngineNine Kubernetes Engine		Kubernetes KosmosKubernetes Kosmos
Kubernetes KapsuleKubernetes Kapsule
Serverless Container—Serverless ContainersServerless Containers
Data & AIData Processing—Data Lab for Apache Spark™Data Lab for Apache Spark™
Data Warehouse/Lakehouse—Data Warehouse for ClickHouse®Data Warehouse for ClickHouse®
Managed LLM—Generative APIsGenerative APIs
Managed InferenceManaged Inference
Search EngineManaged SolrManaged Solr
Managed OpenSearchManaged OpenSearch		—
DatabaseDocument Database—Managed MongoDBManaged MongoDB
Key-Value StoreManaged CacheManaged Cache
Managed RedisManaged Redis		Managed Database for RedisManaged Database for Redis
Messaging—Messaging & QueueingMessaging & Queueing
Relational DatabaseManaged MySQLManaged MySQL
Managed PostgreSQLManaged PostgreSQL		Serverless SQL Database (beta)Serverless SQL Database (beta)
Managed Database for PostgreSQL and MySQLManaged Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL
Managed ServicesApplication RuntimeDeploioDeploio—
E-Mail—Transactional Email (TEM)Transactional Email (TEM)
IoT Hub—IoT HubIoT Hub
Web Hosting—Web HostingWeb Hosting
ManagementObservability—CockpitCockpit
NetworkCDNCloudflareCloudflare—
Direct Connect—Scaleway InterLinkScaleway InterLink
DNSDNSDNSDomains and DNSDomains and DNS
Firewall—WAF (Web Application Firewall)WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Gateway—Public GatewayPublic Gateway
Load Balancer—Load BalancerLoad Balancer
Private NetworkSubnetsSubnetsPrivate NetworksPrivate Networks
VPC PeeringVPC Peering
Security & IdentityIAMManaged ShibbolethManaged ShibbolethIdentity and Access Management (IAM)Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Secret Manager—Secret ManagerSecret Manager
StorageBlock Storage—Block StorageBlock Storage
Cold Storage—Scaleway GlacierScaleway Glacier
File Storage—File StorageFile Storage
Object StorageObject StorageObject StorageObject StorageObject Storage

Sovereignty

Sovereignty assessment side by side, following the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework with its 8 objectives. Higher is better; the area shows each provider's coverage across all objectives.

Disclaimer: this assessment is conducted as an outside-in analysis, based on public information and, for some questions, educated guessing. The results may be factually wrong and in no way replace your own due diligence.

Nine

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Scaleway

81.8 %

SEAL 2

Sovereignty Comparison

Data Centres

CountryCityNineScaleway
FranceParis—Scaleway DC4
Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône—Scaleway DC5
Val-de-Marne—
  • Scaleway DC2
  • Scaleway DC3
ItalyMilan—Scaleway MIL1
NetherlandsAmsterdam—
  • Scaleway AMS1
  • Scaleway AMS2
  • Scaleway AMS3
PolandWarsaw—
  • Scaleway WAW1
  • Scaleway WAW2
  • Scaleway WAW3
UnknownUnknown
  • Nine - Zurich, Switzerland
  • Nine - Zurich, Switzerland
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Certifications

CertificationDescriptionNineScaleway
HDSFrench certification required for Health Data Hosting. Requires data management features such as high availability, automatic backups and encryption.—✓
ISO 27001World's best-known standard for information security management systems (ISMS)✓✓
ISO 27701Requirements for Privacy Information Management System—✓
ISO 50001Standard for Energy Management System—✓
ISO 9001Standard for Quality Management✓—
SecNumCloudFrench certification framework for cloud service providers. Recognized as one of the most demanding qualification frameworks in Europe.—✓
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