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Hetzner Cloud vs Scaleway: which is more reliable? (2026)
Hetzner Cloud is more reliable than Scaleway, scoring 70.9 vs 23.9 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Hetzner Cloud reported 5 incidents and Scaleway reported 98, with effective uptime of 99.61% and 90.58% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Hetzner Cloud | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 70.9 | 23.9 |
| Rank (cloud providers) | #2 | #9 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.61% | 90.58% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 5 | 98 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 10 |
| Avg time to resolve | — | 20h 32m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Hetzner Cloud and Scaleway differ
- Scaleway reported 19.6× as many incidents as Hetzner Cloud over the last 90 days (98 vs 5).
- Scaleway had 10 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Hetzner Cloud.
90-day uptime
Hetzner Cloud
Scaleway
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Hetzner Cloud incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 30, 2026 · ongoing
CVE-2026-97631 - critical security vulnerability in the EDK II UEFI firmware component
- Degraded performanceOct 27, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceOct 15, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceSep 24, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
October billing run: One-time billing of outstanding amounts below €10
- Degraded performanceSep 11, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
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
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) · #3 · 99.43% uptime
- UpCloud · #4 · 99.37% uptime
- Google Cloud · #5 · 98.90% uptime