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IBM Cloud vs Scaleway: which is more reliable? (2026)
IBM Cloud is more reliable than Scaleway, scoring 88.4 vs 23.9 out of 100. Over the last 90 days IBM Cloud reported 1 incident and Scaleway reported 98, with effective uptime of 100% and 90.57% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | IBM Cloud | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 88.4 | 23.9 |
| Rank (cloud providers) | #1 | #9 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 100% | 90.57% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 1 | 98 |
| Partial / major outages | 1 | 10 |
| Avg time to resolve | — | 20h 32m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where IBM Cloud and Scaleway differ
- Scaleway reported 98× as many incidents as IBM Cloud over the last 90 days (98 vs 1).
- Scaleway had 10 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for IBM Cloud.
90-day uptime
IBM Cloud
Scaleway
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent IBM Cloud incidents
- Partial outageOct 21, 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
- Hetzner Cloud · #2 · 99.61% uptime
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) · #3 · 99.43% uptime
- UpCloud · #4 · 99.37% uptime
- Google Cloud · #5 · 98.90% uptime