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Amazon S3 compared to Digital Ocean Spaces

Amazon S3
Versus
Digital Ocean Spaces

Features

Storage Features of Amazon S3 compared to Digital Ocean Spaces
Amazon S3FeaturesDigital Ocean Spaces
Cloud based
GDPR Compliant
On premise
Open source
Versioned files
Cross Region Replication
API
S3 Compatible API
Portal, CLI, REST apiManagement interfacesPortal, REST api
Event hooks/pubsub
Best effort. Credits below 99.9%. That is 43 minutes of downtime allowed per month without having to issue creditsSLA
5 TBMaximum object filesize250 GB
A 0 byte file has 8 KB of chargeable overhead for metadata.Minimum object filesizeFiles smaller than 1MB are not optimally stored on DO’s Spaces.
unlimitedRecommended max file count per bucketunlimited
unlimitedMax filesize for a bucket250 GB
500 - upgradable if you need it.Maximum amount of bucketsunlimited. Note that a price is calculated per ‘Space’.
Logs
Amazon has designed their very own PreSigned URL mechanism which is now used globally across providersAuthentication / ACL
S3 integrates seamlessly into Amazon’s CloudFront CDN, as well as other CDNsCDN integrationSpaces leverages Digital Ocean’s built in CDN, which is a mix of two CDNs depending on the region your traffic is served
Peering & interconnectCenturylink is the backbone provider for large parts of the globe
Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown

Descriptions

Amazon S3

World’s biggest Cloud Storage Provider. Amazon, traditionally an online book store, has put a target on the cloud compute space when it shifted its focus to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2006. E-Commerce competition was tough, but public cloud companies back then were scarce, and usability and user friendly products were a long way from being invented.

Amazon’s reign on cloud computing has left its mark in public cloud-land. Competitors have trouble keeping up, if they even get to a point of feature-parity at all. With Amazon’s S3 storage being one of the first, it has basically dictated a standard for the public cloud’s blob storage protocol.

Needless to say, Amazon invented the S3 (Simple Storage Service) standard.

Digital Ocean Spaces

Digital Ocean is one of the few companies that grew over time and actually made it to the champions leage of Cloud Hosting Providers. It’s only logical DO should offer an object storage solution.

Digital Ocean has established itself over the years as being developer friendly, posting an abundance of useful Sysadmin/developer articles. The value and quality of their blog closely represents their product, which is clean, has good concise documentation, and works great.

Their clients include InfluxDB and Edge Compute company Section; (see our srvrlss profile on them).

Comparisons