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Akamai Cloud (Linode) vs Scaleway: which is more reliable? (2026)
Akamai Cloud (Linode) is more reliable than Scaleway, scoring 44.9 vs 23.9 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Akamai Cloud (Linode) reported 23 incidents and Scaleway reported 98, with effective uptime of 98.40% and 90.58% respectively. Akamai Cloud (Linode) resolves incidents faster on average (14h 19m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Akamai Cloud (Linode) | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 44.9 | 23.9 |
| Rank (cloud providers) | #7 | #9 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 98.40% | 90.58% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 23 | 98 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 10 |
| Avg time to resolve | 14h 19m | 20h 32m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Akamai Cloud (Linode) and Scaleway differ
- Scaleway reported 4.3× as many incidents as Akamai Cloud (Linode) over the last 90 days (98 vs 23).
- Scaleway had 10 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Akamai Cloud (Linode).
- Akamai Cloud (Linode) fixes problems faster: 14h 19m on average, against 20h 32m 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
- 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)
- InformationalOct 22, 2026 · resolved in <1m
Service Issue - Linode Kubernetes Engine
Affected: US-East (Newark) Linode Kubernetes Engine, US-Central (Dallas) Linode Kubernetes Engine, US-West (Fremont) Linode Kubernetes Engine, US-Southeast (Atlanta) Linode Kubernetes Engine, US-IAD (Washington) Linode Kubernetes Engine, US-ORD (Chicago) Linode Kubernetes Engine +25 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 · 99.62% uptime
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) · #3 · 99.43% uptime
- UpCloud · #4 · 99.37% uptime