Scaleway Elastic Metal

Bare metal cloud servers that combine dedicated hardware with cloud-like elasticity. Servers are fully dedicated machines without a hypervisor, giving full control of resources and installed applications for performance and isolation, while offering flexible billing and native integration into a cloud ecosystem.

Scaleway Elastic Metal differentiates from traditional dedicated servers by bridging bare metal and cloud: hourly or monthly billing with no long-term lock-in, deployment in minutes instead of days, and seamless connectivity to instances, object storage, managed databases, and managed Kubernetes over the same VPC. Servers run in European regions including Paris, Amsterdam, and Warsaw, with data protected under EU regulations.

Key capabilities:

• Fully dedicated hardware without hypervisor, multiple ranges from entry-level to GPU-powered
• VPC and Private Networks for L2 connectivity between Elastic Metal, instances, databases, and load balancers
• Flexible IPs that can be attached or detached across servers
• API, CLI, Terraform, Python SDK, and Go SDK for automation
• OS installation from the console, optional backups to object storage

Engineers use it for databases, high-throughput applications, GPU workloads, and storage-heavy systems that need predictable performance without virtualization overhead. Teams running hybrid architectures benefit from bare metal servers on the same private network as managed Kubernetes and managed databases, with infrastructure-as-code via Terraform or the Scaleway API.