Hexabyte
A Sweden-headquartered S3-compatible object storage provider, **launched May 2026**, priced at **€5/TB/month** with zero egress fees. EU-only infrastructure positioned explicitly at GDPR-compliant workloads — data residency stays inside EU borders, which the larger US-headquartered providers can't guarantee at the same price point. Hexabyte joins **Cubbit**, **Scaleway**, and **OVHcloud Object Storage** as part of the post-MinIO European S3-compat wave that emphasizes sovereign infrastructure over global reach.
Definition
A Sweden-headquartered S3-compatible object storage provider, **launched May 2026**, priced at **€5/TB/month** with zero egress fees. EU-only infrastructure positioned explicitly at GDPR-compliant workloads — data residency stays inside EU borders, which the larger US-headquartered providers can't guarantee at the same price point. Hexabyte joins **Cubbit**, **Scaleway**, and **OVHcloud Object Storage** as part of the post-MinIO European S3-compat wave that emphasizes sovereign infrastructure over global reach.
GDPR + the **CLOUD Act** combination means EU-domiciled workloads with personal data have a real legal preference for non-US-headquartered storage. Wasabi and Backblaze B2 — the dominant cheap-S3 alternatives — are both US-headquartered, so they inherit CLOUD Act exposure regardless of where the bucket physically sits. Hexabyte (Sweden) is a Schrems II-clean alternative for the same use cases.
GDPR-compliant cheap object storage for EU workloads, archival storage for European regulated industries, EU dev/test S3-compatible storage, secondary storage in multi-cloud architectures requiring at least one non-US provider.
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