Reviewed on 15 October 2024 • Published on 15 October 2024
Edge Services is an additional feature for Scaleway Load Balancers and Object Storage buckets. It lets you benefit from a powerful caching service to reduce the load on your origin servers and streamline delivery. On top of this, you get a customizable Edge Services endpoint and can set it to a subdomain of your choice, securing it with an SSL/TLS certificate.
To use Edge Services, you must subscribe to a pricing plan. Within its monthly price, each pricing plan includes:
A fixed number of Edge Services pipelines. You can create pipelines for either Load Balancers, Object Storage buckets, or a mixture of both, with your subscription plan.
A certain amount of egress cache data (the quantity of data transferred from Edge Services’ caches, not including the transfer from the origin bucket or Load Balancer).
A custom domain and SSL certificate (managed or custom) for each pipeline.
If you create more pipelines than are included in your plan, or your pipelines’ caches egress more data than is included, you will be charged additionally for this. The rates per pipeline/GB of data are indicated on the pricing page.
Subscriptions are pro-rata, meaning you can cancel your subscription or change your plan at any time, and you will be charged proportionally.
Owner status or IAM permissions allowing you to perform actions in the intended Organization
Tip
You can subscribe to Edge Services from the Object Storage or Load Balancer dashboards of the Scaleway console. However, the instructions below detail how to describe from the dedicated Edge Services section of the console. Whichever path you use, the same pricing plans and subscription mechanisms apply. Subscribing from the Object Storage or Load Balancer dashboards does not limit you to only creating pipelines for that product with your subscription. Subscription plans are scoped to a single Scaleway Project.
Click Edge Services in the Network section of the Scaleway console side menu.
Click Subscribe to Edge Services.
Information about available pricing plans is displayed. All pricing plans have a fixed monthly price, and include a certain number of pipelines and a certain amount of cache data (data egressed from all your Edge Services pipelines’ caches). Any extra pipelines or cache egress data are charged at the additional rates shown.
Select a plan, and click Subscribe to Edge Services.
Your subscription is created, and you are returned to the Edge Services dashboard, on the Pipelines tab. All your Edge Services pipelines will display here.
You can change your Edge Services subscription plan at any time. Subscriptions are pro-rata: the monthly price will be applied based on the proportion of the month you are subscribed to the plan.
If you upgrade your plan, any additional charges (for extra pipelines or cache data) that you had already accumulated before the time of upgrade will still stand.
Find out more about how Edge Service subscription plans and billing works, including scenarios for changing your plan mid-month, on our Understanding Edge Services pricing page.
Click Edge Services in the Network section of the Scaleway console side menu. Your Edge Services dashboard displays.
Click the Plans tab. An overview of your current plan displays, along with options to manage your plan or terminate your subscription.
Scroll down to the Manage your plan subscription section, and click Select plan on the plan you want to switch to.
A pop-up displays, asking you to confirm that you want to change plans.
Click change plan to confirm.
Your subscription plan is updated, and you are returned to the Plans tab of your Edge Services dashboard.