Hetzner Object Storage
S3-compatible object storage from German hosting provider Hetzner, served from EU data centers in Falkenstein, Nuremberg, and Helsinki. GDPR-compliant by default, priced at €4.99/month base (includes 1 TB storage + 1 TB egress), pay-as-you-go beyond the included quota. Tightly integrated with the rest of the Hetzner portfolio (Cloud servers, Dedicated, Storage Box) for low-cost end-to-end EU stacks.
Definition
S3-compatible object storage from German hosting provider Hetzner, served from EU data centers in Falkenstein, Nuremberg, and Helsinki. GDPR-compliant by default, priced at €4.99/month base (includes 1 TB storage + 1 TB egress), pay-as-you-go beyond the included quota. Tightly integrated with the rest of the Hetzner portfolio (Cloud servers, Dedicated, Storage Box) for low-cost end-to-end EU stacks.
US-hyperscaler S3-compatible storage routes through legal jurisdictions that EU compliance regimes increasingly reject (CLOUD Act, evolving sovereignty rules). Hetzner — already the dominant low-cost EU hosting provider — added object storage to give EU customers a fully in-jurisdiction S3 alternative without paying hyperscaler prices. The 2026 framing: cheap + GDPR-default + same-region-as-your-compute, with a generous free tier baked into the base price.
GDPR-bound European workloads where data residency is non-negotiable, low-cost backup and archive targets for EU-based teams, integration with Hetzner Cloud or Dedicated servers (intra-Hetzner egress effectively free), prototype/early-stage projects where €5/month covers 1TB hot storage, and indie SaaS where AWS S3 pricing would dominate TCO.
Recent developments
€4.99/month base — 1TB storage + 1TB egress included. Pricing: €4.99 ($5.99) base/month, then €0.0067/TB-hour for additional storage and €1.00/TB for additional egress traffic. Per Hetzner Object Storage.
EU data residency by default — Falkenstein, Nuremberg, Helsinki. All data is GDPR-compliant by default; customers choose which of the three EU data centers store their bucket. Per Hetzner Press Release.
S3-compatible API — drop-in for AWS S3 SDKs. Standard S3 API surface. Per Hetzner — built to grow with your needs.
Featured in European Alternatives 2026 directory. Listed as the dominant European S3-compatible alternative to AWS S3. Per European Alternatives.
Datacentre coverage. Datacentre News UK covered the launch and architecture positioning of Hetzner Object Storage. Per Datacentre News UK.
Object Storage base price rose ~30% to €6.49/month, effective April 1, 2026. Base pricing in Germany and Finland increased from €4.99 to €6.49 per month as part of a broader Hetzner adjustment citing rising hardware costs; the same round raised prices up to 53% at the US location. Per Hostingjournalist, corroborated by Fudzilla and UBOS.tech.
Object Storage was explicitly excluded from Hetzner's second 2026 price round. A follow-up standardization announcement effective June 15, 2026 raised dedicated-server and cloud-plan pricing for new orders, but explicitly carved out web hosting, storage products, Volumes, Snapshots, and Object Storage. Per Hetzner — standardization and price adjustment of our server products. Sources: hetzner.com — Object Storage · Hetzner Press Release · Hetzner news — built to grow · European Alternatives · Datacentre News UK