| Scaleway Object Storage | Features | Digital Ocean Spaces |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud based | ||
| GDPR Compliant | ||
| On premise | ||
| Open source | ||
| Versioned files | ||
| Cross Region Replication | ||
| API | ||
| S3 Compatible API | ||
| Portal, REST api and multiple command line utilities | Management interfaces | Portal, REST api |
| Event hooks/pubsub | ||
| 99.99% | SLA | |
| unlimited | Maximum object filesize | 250 GB |
| Minimum object filesize | Files smaller than 1MB are not optimally stored on DO’s Spaces. | |
| unlimited | Recommended max file count per bucket | unlimited |
| unlimited | Max filesize for a bucket | 250 GB |
| unlimited | Maximum amount of buckets | unlimited. Note that a price is calculated per ‘Space’. |
| Logs | ||
| Authentication / ACL | ||
| The standard Storage Class claims to be sufficient to serve as CDN for your (streaming)content | CDN integration | Spaces leverages Digital Ocean’s built in CDN, which is a mix of two CDNs depending on the region your traffic is served |
| Scaleway has a large number of peering interfaces in Amsterdam, and is otherwise connected very well in Warsaw and Paris | Peering & interconnect | Centurylink is the backbone provider for large parts of the globe |
| Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown | ||
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.
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).
