AS12876

AS12876 is the network of Scaleway, a French cloud/VPS/dedicated provider and one of the leading European alternatives to the hyperscalers, registered under RIPE to SCALEWAY S.A.S. (formerly Online S.A.S.) in Paris. It offers cloud instances, Dedibox dedicated servers, and Elastic Metal, and pioneered ARM-based bare-metal IaaS in 2015. A notable routing quirk: the ASN announces only around 23 IPv4 prefixes and a handful of IPv6 prefixes, because its space is advertised as large aggregates (such as 51.15.0.0/16, 51.158.0.0/15, and 195.154.0.0/16) totaling roughly 504,000 IPv4 addresses — so the low prefix count masks a large pooled address space with many distinct customers sharing each /16–/15. RPKI coverage is clean. The lineage runs from Online.net, founded in 1999 by Xavier Niel, which launched the "Scaleway" bare-metal cloud in 2015 and later rebranded fully; the company is part of the Iliad group (its listed upstream is AS12322 Free), and its data-center unit is being spun out as a standalone company, Opcore. As multi-tenant cloud the standard caveat applies — attribute to the current tenant, not Scaleway — and the network appears in scanning/scraping abuse reports consistent with that pattern.

Operator

SCALEWAY S.A.S. (formerly Online S.A.S.; RIPE org ORG-TT1-RIPE, Paris) [Confirmed] — RIPE WHOIS

Country / RIR

FR, RIPE [Confirmed] — RIPE WHOIS

Allocated

created 2002-05-27 [Confirmed] — RIPE WHOIS

Org status

active; Online.net (founded 1999 by Xavier Niel) launched Scaleway 2015 and rebranded; part of Iliad group; data-center unit being spun out as Opcore — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaleway, datacenterdynamics.com

Security/abuse context (NEUTRAL — multi-tenant)

multi-tenant cloud; attribute to tenant. Appears in scanning/scraping abuse reports (a Cloudflare community thread flags AS12876 as a source of vulnerability scraping); IPinfo tags Tor/crawler/bittorrent. No dominant DDoS-source ranking position found as of 2026-06-07 — community.cloudflare.com

Network & routing

Network type

cloud / hosting-VPS [Confirmed]

Size

~23 IPv4 prefixes (announced as large aggregates), ~7–9 IPv6 (~504,320 addrs originated) — bgp.he.net / stat.ripe.net (2026-05)

Routing/peering

~5 IXPs (France-IX, AMS-IX, Equinix); upstream AS12322 (Free); selective peering (open with technical restrictions); RPKI all valid, 0 invalid — peeringdb.com/asn/12876, bgp.he.net

Notable usage

French cloud/VPS/dedicated provider (Dedibox, Elastic Metal); leading European hyperscaler alternative; pioneered ARM bare-metal IaaS 2015 — scaleway.com

Related ASNs

AS12322 (Free — listed upstream), AS51207 (Free Mobile), plus Jaguar Network (Iliad group)

Analyst note

French-cloud multi-tenant IPs; the small prefix count masks a large pooled address space, so many distinct customers share each aggregate /16–/15 — attribute to tenant.