Scalingo is a European cloud provider offering both Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solutions. Founded in France, the company delivers a fully managed platform that enables organizations to deploy, operate, and scale applications and data without managing underlying infrastructure.
The platform focuses on simplicity, automation, and reliability, with infrastructure hosted in Europe and aligned with strict European regulatory requirements. The company holds key French and international security certifications, including ISO 27001, HDS for Health Data Hosting and SecNumCloud for its IaaS infrastructure.
Features & Services
Scalingo combines application runtime and managed database services within a single platform.
Applications are automatically built, containerized, and deployed from the user’s code, with built-in scaling, scheduled jobs, testing environments, logging, and metrics. Private networking and secure connectivity options support more advanced and regulated use cases. Per-minute billing and clear usage insights help teams stay in control of their costs.
On the data side, the platform provides fully managed PostgreSQL®, MySQL®, Redis®, and OpenSearch® services with automated backups, monitoring, high availability options, and secure access controls. Support for vector search extends capabilities to AI-driven workloads.
Developer Experience
Scalingo was specifically designed to keep application and database deployment straightforward, removing the need to manage servers or container infrastructure directly. Deployments follow a Git-based workflow where code is automatically built and released by the platform.
API
The REST API enables management of applications, databases, scaling operations, networking configuration, and consumption reports. It supports automation and integration into CI/CD workflows.
Terraform Provider
An official Terraform provider allows infrastructure-as-code management of applications, databases, and related resources.
CLI
The Scalingo CLI provides command-line access to deployments, logs, scaling, and database operations, commonly used in development and CI environments.
Dashboard
The Scalingo web dashboard provides centralized access to applications and databases, including deployment history, metrics, configuration, and logs. The interface is designed for operational clarity, surfacing the most relevant information for day-to-day management.
Support
Scalingo provides free business-hours access to EU-based technical support engineers with real platform expertise. Higher support tiers, including up to 24/7, are available for enterprise and sensitive projects.
Environmental Approach
Scalingo does not yet publish a formal environmental policy but has identified sustainability as an area of ongoing development.
The company operates as a fully remote organization, reducing commuting-related emissions. Internal practices aim to limit environmental impact, including favoring low-carbon transportation (such as train travel) in its expense policy.
Scalingo relies on Outscale’s services for its infrastructure. Outscale states that it uses 100% renewable energy in its offices and in its partner datacenters in France.
From a product perspective, platform features such as node sharing and auto-scaling contribute to more efficient resource usage by adjusting infrastructure consumption to actual workload demands.
Scalingo plans to further structure its environmental initiatives, including eco-design training initiatives to integrate sustainability considerations into product development.
Certifications
The SecNumCloud certification was awarded to the underlying IaaS infrastructure of Scalingo.
Conclusion
Scalingo delivers an integrated European PaaS and DBaaS platform focused on operational simplicity, regulatory compliance, and direct access to technical expertise. It is particularly suited for SaaS providers, startups, scale-ups and regulated projects seeking a managed alternative to infrastructure-heavy cloud environments.
