How Scaleway brought the first RISC-V servers to the cloud
In 2024, Scaleway launched the world’s first dedicated RISC-V server offering. Discover the story behind this industrial first, from the instruction set to the hardware design choices.
How Scaleway brought the first RISC-V servers to the cloud launched on May 12, 2026 with 5 votes, #2,008 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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In 2013, Scaleway was one of the first cloud providers to offer ARM bare metal instances — physical servers directly accessible without virtualization. Eleven years later, we did it again by launching the world’s first dedicated RISC-V server offering. But how do you turn an ISA architecture into a fully operational cloud server? Here is a look behind the scenes of this industry first: from the instruction set itself to the hardware design choices that made it possible. For decades, the processor world has been dominated by CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computing) architectures, with giants such as Intel and AMD shaping modern computing. These architectures, designed to execute complex…from scaleway.com
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