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Digital Ocean Spaces compared to Scaleway Object Storage

Digital Ocean Spaces
Versus
Scaleway Object Storage

Features

Storage Features of Digital Ocean Spaces compared to Scaleway Object Storage
Digital Ocean SpacesFeaturesScaleway Object Storage
Cloud based
GDPR Compliant
On premise
Open source
Versioned files
Cross Region Replication
API
S3 Compatible API
Portal, REST apiManagement interfacesPortal, REST api and multiple command line utilities
Event hooks/pubsub
SLA99.99%
250 GBMaximum object filesizeunlimited
Files smaller than 1MB are not optimally stored on DO’s Spaces.Minimum object filesize
unlimitedRecommended max file count per bucketunlimited
250 GBMax filesize for a bucketunlimited
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 integrationThe standard Storage Class claims to be sufficient to serve as CDN for your (streaming)content
Centurylink is the backbone provider for large parts of the globePeering & interconnectScaleway has a large number of peering interfaces in Amsterdam, and is otherwise connected very well in Warsaw and Paris
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).

Scaleway Object Storage

Scaleway, mostly known for its performance cloud computing brand, launched their Object Storage product some time in 2020. Although quite late, in comparison to other Cloud Compute platforms, they used their to time to release a quality product. Another cool feature is that Scaleway has full GDPR compatibility with their DCs in Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw.

Their list of customers includes Adobe, Dailymotion, and Malwarebytes.

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