| Scaleway Object Storage | Features | OVH Object Storage |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | OVH commits to an uptime of more than 99.9%, which means 43 minutes of allowed downtime on a monthly base |
| unlimited | Maximum object filesize | 5TB, given files are uploaded in segments of 1 GB |
| Minimum object filesize | ||
| unlimited | Recommended max file count per bucket | unlimited |
| unlimited | Max filesize for a bucket | unlimited |
| unlimited | Maximum amount of buckets | unlimited |
| Logs | ||
| Authentication / ACL | ||
| The standard Storage Class claims to be sufficient to serve as CDN for your (streaming)content | CDN integration | |
| Scaleway has a large number of peering interfaces in Amsterdam, and is otherwise connected very well in Warsaw and Paris | Peering & interconnect | |
| 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.
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.
