OVHcloud Object Storage vs Amazon S3
A detailed comparison to help you choose between OVHcloud Object Storage and Amazon S3.
Quick Verdict
3.8/5
OVHcloud Object Storage
0 reviews
4.1/5
Amazon S3
0 reviews
Amazon S3 is rated higher (4.1 vs 3.8). 13 regions in Europe (France, Germany, Italy, UK, Poland), Canada and Asia-Pacific; no US region AWS S3 stores and retrieves unlimited amounts of data via a simple web interface. Built for developers, enterprises, and anyone needing reliable, durable cloud storage with pay-as-you-go pricing.
OVHcloud Object Storage S3-compatible object storage from €0.014/GB (Standard), Cold Archive from €0.00128/GB |  Amazon S3 Scalable object storage for any data size or type | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.8 (0 reviews) | 4.1 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | usage-based | pay-as-you-go (per GB-month + per 1,000 requests + retrieval/transfer) |
| Starting price | From $0.014/mo✓ | From $0.023/mo |
| Best for | EU-resident, read-heavy object storage — media libraries, backup repositories and CMS assets — where free egress keeps bills predictable. | Teams building on AWS who need durable, API-stable object storage for backups, data lakes, static content and archives — and who value tooling compatibility over the lowest per-GB rate |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ✓ | |
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ✓ | |
| Free tier | ✓ | |
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | — | 39 AWS regions / 123-124 AZs |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | s3 compatibleeu datacentergdpr compliantapi access | free tiers3 compatibleapi accessus datacentereu datacenterapac datacenterterraform provider |
| Visit OVHcloud Object Storage → | Visit Amazon S3 → | |
OVHcloud Object Storage
Pros
- + Free egress and free API requests on Standard storage — rare among S3 providers
- + Volume-tiered pricing from €0.014/GB/month, billed per GiB-hour
- + Cold Archive at about €0.00128/GB/month for French-resident archives
- + 13 regions across Europe, Canada and Asia-Pacific with clear per-region endpoints
- + Five storage classes with documented class-to-region availability
Cons
- - No US region — North America is served from Canada
- - Cold Archive is Paris-only with 180-day minimum retention and €0.005/GB restores
- - Most regions are 1-AZ; multi-region redundancy must be designed by the user
- - S3 compatibility is not full AWS parity; console is dense
Amazon S3
Pros
- + Designed for 11 nines durability with cross-AZ replication by default and strong read-after-write consistency
- + The S3 API is the industry standard — code written in 2006 still works, and third-party compatibility is everywhere
- + 23x cost ladder from Standard down to Glacier Deep Archive at $0.00099/GB-month, with lifecycle automation
- + Deepest storage feature set available: versioning, Object Lock, replication, inventory, event notifications, access management
Cons
- - Egress at $0.09/GB and per-request pricing produce surprise bills for chatty or restore-heavy workloads
- - IA and Glacier classes add retrieval fees and latency — the restore path must be priced separately
- - Policy configuration (bucket policies, IAM, Block Public Access, KMS keys) is complex and historically error-prone
- - SLA (99.9%/99.0%) is far below the durability figure — availability and durability are different promises
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