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OVH Object Storage compared to Google Cloud Storage

OVH Object Storage
Versus
Google Cloud Storage

Features

Storage Features of OVH Object Storage compared to Google Cloud Storage
OVH Object StorageFeaturesGoogle 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
OVH commits to an uptime of more than 99.9%, which means 43 minutes of allowed downtime on a monthly baseSLACredits below 99.95%. That is 21 minutes of monthly downtime allowed without ability to claim credits
5TB, given files are uploaded in segments of 1 GBMaximum object filesize5 TB
Minimum object filesize
unlimitedRecommended max file count per bucket
unlimitedMax filesize for a bucket5 TB
unlimitedMaximum amount of bucketsunlimited
Logs
Authentication / ACL
CDN integrationYes, google’s storage solution ties into multiple CDNs and it’s covered by google’s own caching layer
Peering & interconnectLeveraging Google’s Peering connections for fast delivery of content
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.

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