Object Storage is natively interoperable with most solutions on the market by being 100% compatible with the S3 protocol. Our Object Storage supports two storage classes: Standard class with Object Storage and the Glacier class with C14 Cold Storage to archive your data. You can easily manage your data with solutions such as Cyberduck on macOS, S3cmd in command line, Rclone to synchronize files, Duplicity for your Dedibox backups, or Nextcloud for your personal backups.

We use a strong erasure coding 6+3 to protect your data stored with Object Storage. Each object is split into six data fragments and adds three parity fragments to ensure the integrity of your objects. This mechanism prevents any impact to your data in the event of an incident when writing, storing or restoring your objects. In addition, Object Storage benefits from features such as access control lists (ACL), or private mode restriction of your buckets and objects, so you can keep control of your assets.  Your data archived through C14 Cold Storage Glacier class is stored in an ultra-secure databunker located 25 meters under Paris.

In the Paris region, the Erasure Code (6+3) mechanism is deployed across three independent Availability Zones. It keeps your data storage resilient against the total loss of one AZ due to any accidents or disasters such as fires, floods, earthquakes, outages, network failures, etc. With One Zone – IA class, you still have the option of storing data in a single AZ as a good choice for storing secondary backup copies or easily recreatable data with lower cost.

You get 75 GB free storage and external outgoing transfer on both Object Storage and C14 Cold Storage every month! For Object Storage’s One Zone – IA class, the price charged after 75GB is €0.01/GB per month per volume stored, and €0.01/GB per volume transferred. In addition, transfer to and from other Scaleway products in the same region is completely free! You also don’t have any fees per API or console request. Your invoice is clear and predictable.

Object Storage supports most S3 lifecycle management features. Lifecycle allows you to setup transition rules for your objects, to archive them from the Object Storage’s Standard class to One Zone – IA class , or to C14 Cold Storage’s Glacier class when you no longer need to frequently access them. It also allows you to define expiration rules, so you can schedule to delete your objects at a given time after they’re uploaded.

When you decide to archive your data , you only pay €0.002/GB per month for the volume stored. Indeed, the data transfer from Object Storage’s Standard class to the C14 Cold Storage Glacier class is completely free of charge. Similar to archiving, recovering data from C14 Cold Storage’s Glacier class to Object Storage’s Standard class is free of charge.

Thanks to a backend entirely redesigned by our engineers, we can securely and infinitely host all your objects in one single bucket. Plus, you are not limited by the size of your files with Object Storage! You can upload your largest files with the S3 Multipart upload feature. Multipart upload allows you to upload an object into chunks. So if one chunk fails to upload because of a network interruption, you can re-upload it without affecting the other ones already uploaded, saving you time. With Object Storage, your large files are thus uploaded in a limit of 1000 chunks per upload and 5TB per object.

You can choose to manage your objects by API request or directly via the Scaleway Console. Our teams have designed a user-friendly interface with a Drag & Drop system, so you can easily manage your buckets in a few clicks! Through the Scaleway Console, you can choose to configure your objects and buckets in public or private mode, get an HTTPS link for your public files, add metadata or tags to them, rename them, or archive them to the Glacier class.

We ensure your services are always up and running. Our technical assistance is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to answer all your questions and to assist you. Simply open a new ticket in case of a problem. You can also reach our support directly by phone or to get faster responses if you upgrade your support plan.