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Alibaba Cloud vs Scaleway: which is more reliable? (2026)
Alibaba Cloud is more reliable than Scaleway, scoring 100.0 vs 23.9 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Alibaba Cloud reported 0 incidents and Scaleway reported 99, with effective uptime of 100% and 90.50% respectively.
Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Alibaba Cloud | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 100.0 | 23.9 |
| Rank (cloud providers) | — | #9 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 100% | 90.50% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 0 | 99 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 10 |
| Avg time to resolve | — | 20h 32m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Alibaba Cloud and Scaleway differ
- Alibaba Cloud reported no incidents in the last 90 days, while Scaleway reported 99.
- Scaleway had 10 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Alibaba Cloud.
- Alibaba Cloud's longest outage on record lasted 10h 19m (Apr 21, 2026); Scaleway's lasted 3d (Jul 9, 2026).
90-day uptime
Alibaba Cloud
Scaleway
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Alibaba Cloud incidents
No incidents reported by Alibaba Cloud in the last 90 days.
Recent Scaleway incidents
- 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 · 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] - [Serverless Containers] - 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
Other cloud providers to consider
- IBM Cloud · #1 · 100% uptime
- Hetzner Cloud · #2 · 99.53% uptime
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) · #3 · 99.43% uptime
- UpCloud · #4 · 99.37% uptime