No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is scw.cloud legit or a scam?
This looks safe to use.
Official Scaleway cloud domain registered 8 years ago with clean scans and confirmed business registration in France.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
The website appears to be a legitimate, professionally designed corporate landing page for Scaleway, a European cloud provider, with no visual indicators of fraud or deceptive patterns.
What our vision model saw
6 signalsProfessional design with high-quality custom graphics and consistent branding
Standard corporate navigation menu including AI, Cloud, Bare Metal, and Pricing
Legitimate cookie consent banner with granular preference management options
Functional login and sign-up buttons consistent with a SaaS platform
No presence of fake trust badges, urgency timers, or deceptive overlays
Clear value proposition regarding European cloud sovereignty
Intelligence
The domain scw.cloud belongs to Scaleway SAS, a French cloud computing company founded in 1999 and majority-owned by the Iliad Group. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines, the hosting IP carries zero abuse reports, and the domain itself is 8 years old. The page content matches Scaleway's legitimate marketing for European cloud and AI services, with professional design, proper navigation, and no deceptive patterns. Independent sources confirm the company operates data centers in Paris, Amsterdam, and Warsaw, and the domain is used for official S3-compatible storage endpoints. The only negative signals are typical customer complaints about technical issues and support on review platforms, which do not indicate fraud.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for scw.cloud, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- scw.cloud is an official domain registered in 2018-07-17 to Online SAS (Scaleway's registrar and former name); used for Scaleway's S3-compatible object storage endpoints such as s3.nl-ams.scw.cloud and s3.fr-par.scw.cloud.
- Scaleway SAS is a legitimate French cloud provider founded in 1999/2000 by Xavier Niel, majority-owned by Iliad Group; second-largest hosting company in France as of 2015; operates data centers in Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw.
- Company maintains active status with SIREN 433115904; legal name Scaleway SAS with updates as recent as 2025; official website scaleway.com promotes European sovereign cloud and AI services.
- Trustpilot reviews for scaleway.com exist and include negative feedback on technical issues, support, and downtime (e.g. "total waste of time and money... constant technical issues").
- Reddit discussions reference Scaleway for EU data residency as alternative to US hyperscalers, with mixed technical experiences including past downtime reports.
- No direct scam reports or fraud accusations against scw.cloud or Scaleway found; some subdomains appear in VirusTotal or security scans due to customer usage, but company itself has abuse reporting processes.
- Scaleway publishes service status page documenting incidents (including data loss in metrics/logs) and has dedicated pages for abuse handling and anti-phishing guidance.
- Wikipediaopen
"Scaleway (formerly Online SAS or Online.net) is a French cloud computing and web hosting company, founded by Xavier Niel in 1999 and a majority owned subsidiary of the Iliad group. As of 2015, Scaleway is the second largest hosting company "
- Netifyopen
"The ***.scw.cloud** domain is associated with Scaleway. Scaleway (previously Online SAS) provides physical dedicated servers, cloud computing, colocation services, domain registration, and other web hosting services."
- Redditopen
"Scaleway as an alternative to AWS, GCP, Azure... Data-residency is not an issue."
Scaleway SAS (SIREN 433115904), formerly Online SAS, subsidiary of Iliad Group, headquartered in Paris. Registered since ~2000; recent updates in 2025.
Our research found no scam reports or fraud accusations against scw.cloud or Scaleway. Wikipedia, Netify, and Reddit all describe the company as a legitimate French cloud provider founded in 1999. Four complaints appear on review platforms, focused on technical issues and support rather than fraudulent behavior. The company maintains active French business registration and publishes service status and abuse-handling pages.
Domain Timeline
- Jul 17, 2018Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 8.0 years old today.
- Jul 12, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
scw.cloud has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://scw.cloud/
- 2200https://www.scaleway.com/en/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on scw.cloud and not a lookalike like s-cw.cloud.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
scw.cloud is an official domain for Scaleway, a legitimate French cloud provider founded in 1999. The domain was registered in 2018 and shows no malicious flags across our engines. No payment details or personal information should be entered without verifying you're on the intended service.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on scw.cloud, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, and the domain is 8 years old, registered on July 17, 2018 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- scw.cloud passed our automated checks with a trust score of 90/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
- Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from scw.cloud), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from scw.cloud is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report scw.cloud as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
- No — scw.cloud is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- scw.cloud is 8 years old, registered on July 17, 2018 through Online SAS. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
- scw.cloud resolves to an IP operated by Scaleway in FR (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 12, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about scw.cloud has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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