OVHcloud Object Storage vs Google Cloud Storage
A detailed comparison to help you choose between OVHcloud Object Storage and Google Cloud Storage.
Quick Verdict
3.8/5
OVHcloud Object Storage
0 reviews
4.0/5
Google Cloud Storage
0 reviews
Google Cloud Storage is rated higher (4.0 vs 3.8). 13 regions in Europe (France, Germany, Italy, UK, Poland), Canada and Asia-Pacific; no US region Cloud object storage service for storing and retrieving unstructured data at scale. For developers, data engineers, and enterprises managing backups, archives, and analytics workloads.
OVHcloud Object Storage S3-compatible object storage from €0.014/GB (Standard), Cold Archive from €0.00128/GB | Google Cloud Storage Scalable object storage for any data type, integrated with Google Cloud | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.8 (0 reviews) | 4.0 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | usage-based | pay-as-you-go |
| Starting price | From $0.014/mo | Free tier available✓ |
| Best for | EU-resident, read-heavy object storage — media libraries, backup repositories and CMS assets — where free egress keeps bills predictable. | Teams already building on Google Cloud — BigQuery, Dataflow, Vertex AI — and cold backup/archive workloads that value the cheap Nearline, Coldline, and Archive classes. |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ✓ | |
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ✓ | |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | s3 compatibleeu datacentergdpr compliantapi access | free tiers3 compatibleapi accesseu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenterterraform provider |
| Visit OVHcloud Object Storage → | Visit Google Cloud Storage → | |
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
Google Cloud Storage
Pros
- + Per-GiB-hour pricing published per class and location, prorated per second — no commitment required
- + Four storage classes put cold bytes as low as about $0.0012/GB-month (Archive)
- + Credit-backed SLA: 99.95% multi/dual-region Standard with 10–50% credits on miss
- + Real S3 interoperability (XML API, HMAC keys, V4 signing) plus a documented migration path
- + Always Free tier (5 GB-months, 50k Class B ops, 100 GB egress in US regions) can host a small real workload
Cons
- - Egress at $0.12/GiB (Premium) makes read-heavy serving expensive without a CDN in front
- - Cold classes carry minimum storage durations and retrieval fees — wrong class choices cost more than Standard
- - Many pricing dimensions (classes, placement, network tiers, operation classes) make forecasting hard
- - IAM and lifecycle configuration is a real learning curve and a common source of misconfiguration
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