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Google Cloud Storage compared to OVH Object Storage

Google Cloud Storage
Versus
OVH Object Storage

Features

Storage Features of Google Cloud Storage compared to OVH Object Storage
Google Cloud StorageFeaturesOVH Object Storage
Cloud based
GDPR Compliant
On premise
Open source
Versioned files
Cross Region Replication
API
S3 Compatible API
Portal, CLI, REST apiManagement interfacesPortal, REST api
Yes, but only in combination with Google FirebaseEvent hooks/pubsub
Credits below 99.95%. That is 21 minutes of monthly downtime allowed without ability to claim creditsSLAOVH commits to an uptime of more than 99.9%, which means 43 minutes of allowed downtime on a monthly base
5 TBMaximum object filesize5TB, given files are uploaded in segments of 1 GB
Minimum object filesize
Recommended max file count per bucketunlimited
5 TBMax filesize for a bucketunlimited
unlimitedMaximum amount of bucketsunlimited
Logs
Authentication / ACL
Yes, google’s storage solution ties into multiple CDNs and it’s covered by google’s own caching layerCDN integration
Leveraging Google’s Peering connections for fast delivery of contentPeering & interconnect
Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown

Descriptions

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.

OVH Object Storage

OVH has been around in the cloud hosting world for a very long time. In the 20 years they’ve been in the hosting industry, they have certainly earned their stripes.

OVH’s public cloud storage offering is quite literally a hosted version of Openstack Swift in the past, they’re putting more effort into creating a better value-add, with slick documentation and to-the-point FAQ.

A big advantage for European companies is that OVH’s Object Storage is completely GDPR compliant.

Clients of OVH’s storage product are not disclosed, making privacy sort of a feature.

Comparisons