diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/scaleway/scaleway_compute.py b/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/scaleway/scaleway_compute.py
index 11925232237..94dd8a93e5a 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/scaleway/scaleway_compute.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/scaleway/scaleway_compute.py
@@ -225,6 +225,17 @@ SCALEWAY_TRANSITIONS_STATES = (
 )
 
 
+def check_image_id(compute_api, image_id):
+    response = compute_api.get(path="images")
+
+    if response.ok and response.json:
+        image_ids = [image["id"] for image in response.json["images"]]
+        if image_id not in image_ids:
+            compute_api.module.fail_json(msg='Error in getting image %s on %s' % (image_id, compute_api.module.params.get('api_url')))
+    else:
+        compute_api.module.fail_json(msg="Error in getting images from: %s" % compute_api.module.params.get('api_url'))
+
+
 def fetch_state(compute_api, server):
     compute_api.module.debug("fetch_state of server: %s" % server["id"])
     response = compute_api.get(path="servers/%s" % server["id"])
@@ -662,6 +673,8 @@ def core(module):
 
     compute_api = Scaleway(module=module)
 
+    check_image_id(compute_api, wished_server["image"])
+
     # IP parameters of the wished server depends on the configuration
     ip_payload = public_ip_payload(compute_api=compute_api, public_ip=module.params["public_ip"])
     wished_server.update(ip_payload)
diff --git a/test/legacy/roles/scaleway_compute/defaults/main.yml b/test/legacy/roles/scaleway_compute/defaults/main.yml
index 269c367bd78..4b2b2799c37 100644
--- a/test/legacy/roles/scaleway_compute/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/test/legacy/roles/scaleway_compute/defaults/main.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Below information has been taken from https://developer.scaleway.com/#servers
 ---
-scaleway_image_id: 89ee4018-f8c3-4dc4-a6b5-bca14f985ebe
+scaleway_image_id: 6a601340-19c1-4ca7-9c1c-0704bcc9f5fe
 scaleway_organization: '{{ scw_org }}'
 scaleway_region: ams1
 scaleway_commerial_type: START1-S
diff --git a/test/legacy/roles/scaleway_compute/tasks/state.yml b/test/legacy/roles/scaleway_compute/tasks/state.yml
index da7ef4dfedd..effd27e85fd 100644
--- a/test/legacy/roles/scaleway_compute/tasks/state.yml
+++ b/test/legacy/roles/scaleway_compute/tasks/state.yml
@@ -384,3 +384,4 @@
     that:
       - unexisting_image_check is not success
       - unexisting_image_check is not changed
+      - unexisting_image_check.msg == "Error in getting image this-image-does-not-exists on https://cp-{{scaleway_region}}.scaleway.com"