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OVH Object Storage compared to Digital Ocean Spaces

OVH Object Storage
Versus
Digital Ocean Spaces

Features

Storage Features of OVH Object Storage compared to Digital Ocean Spaces
OVH Object StorageFeaturesDigital Ocean Spaces
Cloud based
GDPR Compliant
On premise
Open source
Versioned files
Cross Region Replication
API
S3 Compatible API
Portal, REST apiManagement interfacesPortal, REST api
Event hooks/pubsub
OVH commits to an uptime of more than 99.9%, which means 43 minutes of allowed downtime on a monthly baseSLA
5TB, given files are uploaded in segments of 1 GBMaximum object filesize250 GB
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
unlimitedMaximum amount of bucketsunlimited. Note that a price is calculated per ‘Space’.
Logs
Authentication / ACL
CDN 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

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.

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