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Digital Ocean Spaces compared to Google Cloud Storage

Digital Ocean Spaces
Versus
Google Cloud Storage

Features

Storage Features of Digital Ocean Spaces compared to Google Cloud Storage
Digital Ocean SpacesFeaturesGoogle Cloud Storage
Cloud based
GDPR Compliant
On premise
Open source
Versioned files
Cross Region Replication
API
S3 Compatible API
Portal, REST apiManagement interfacesPortal, CLI, REST api
Event hooks/pubsubYes, but only in combination with Google Firebase
SLACredits below 99.95%. That is 21 minutes of monthly downtime allowed without ability to claim credits
250 GBMaximum object filesize5 TB
Files smaller than 1MB are not optimally stored on DO’s Spaces.Minimum object filesize
unlimitedRecommended max file count per bucket
250 GBMax filesize for a bucket5 TB
unlimited. Note that a price is calculated per ‘Space’.Maximum amount of bucketsunlimited
Logs
Authentication / ACL
Spaces leverages Digital Ocean’s built in CDN, which is a mix of two CDNs depending on the region your traffic is servedCDN integrationYes, google’s storage solution ties into multiple CDNs and it’s covered by google’s own caching layer
Centurylink is the backbone provider for large parts of the globePeering & interconnectLeveraging Google’s Peering connections for fast delivery of content
Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown

Descriptions

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).

Google Cloud Storage

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has proven itself time over time. They host anything, from very small startups to large enterprise clients, like Nintendo’s Pokemon GO, or basically any NFT marketplace.

Google Cloud Storage was first to introduce Interconnect.

Google Cloud Storage Interconnect facilitates cheap egress costs, from the storage to your CDN supplier. Which means that, when you put a CDN in front of your google cloud object storage, the egress traffic (from google to the CDN) will either be cheap or even free. Essentially, since you’re paying for the bandwidth on the CDN side as well, saving you money on needless costs.

Comparisons