OVHcloud Object Storage
**OVHcloud's** S3-compatible object storage service from France's largest cloud provider. Three storage classes — **Standard (~$5/TB/mo)**, **Infrequent Access (~$3/TB/mo)**, **Archive (~$1.50/TB/mo)** — with a **30-day minimum retention** across all tiers. **Egress fees dropped to zero on January 1, 2026**, removing the last cost barrier between OVHcloud and the US-based zero-egress alternatives (Cloudflare R2, Wasabi, Backblaze B2). EU-only infrastructure with strong data sovereignty framing under French/European regulatory tradition.
Definition
**OVHcloud's** S3-compatible object storage service from France's largest cloud provider. Three storage classes — **Standard (~$5/TB/mo)**, **Infrequent Access (~$3/TB/mo)**, **Archive (~$1.50/TB/mo)** — with a **30-day minimum retention** across all tiers. **Egress fees dropped to zero on January 1, 2026**, removing the last cost barrier between OVHcloud and the US-based zero-egress alternatives (Cloudflare R2, Wasabi, Backblaze B2). EU-only infrastructure with strong data sovereignty framing under French/European regulatory tradition.
OVHcloud is the largest European cloud-infrastructure provider by infrastructure scale, and its object storage exists specifically as the EU-jurisdictional alternative to AWS S3 — both for GDPR-driven data residency and for the **CLOUD Act Data Access** concern that affects every US-headquartered provider regardless of which region the bucket lives in. The January 2026 zero-egress shift made OVHcloud price-competitive with the egress-free US providers while keeping the sovereignty advantage.
GDPR-compliant primary object storage for EU enterprises, cross-border-replication endpoint for multi-region architectures requiring at least one EU non-US provider, archival workloads under French/European regulatory frameworks, multi-cloud staging for cost-sensitive read-heavy workloads.
Recent developments
Source mix note: OVHcloud's recent corpus is dominated by industry commentary and forum confirmation rather than primary OVH blog posts. The zero-egress shift is independently corroborated; the public-cloud-price-rise signal is a single CEO interview.
- Public Cloud price rises 5–10% incoming by mid-year per CEO statement. Per European.cloud's coverage of the OVHcloud CEO interview (December 2025), OVHcloud projected public-cloud prices to rise 5–10% by mid-2026 due to component-cost pressures. Object storage was not singled out, but the broader pricing environment is upward across EU cloud — the zero-egress shift on object storage is a separate, durable price-down move that pre-empts the broader cycle.
- The predicted price rise landed April 1, 2026 — and Object Storage was explicitly excluded. Per OVHcloud Raises Public Cloud and VPS Prices for April 2026 (AgentXCloud), corroborated by OVHcloud VPS Review 2026 (BestUSAVPS), the April 2026 repricing hit Public Cloud compute (9–11% on 2026–2028 deployments) and VPS hard, but object storage sat on the exclusion list alongside Cloud GPUs, block storage, and managed Kubernetes. Combined with the January zero-egress move, OVHcloud's object tier got cheaper relative to its own compute through the 2026 pricing cycle.
- Zero-egress shift on Object Storage confirmed via community channels. Per the LowEndTalk discussion thread (community confirmation) and OVHcloud's public-cloud pricing comparison, egress on Object Storage went to zero January 1, 2026 — already integrated above in this node's overview, but worth noting that this is one of the few storage-vendor price moves in 2026 that went down rather than up.
- Unified S3 endpoint went live January 3, 2026. Per Endpoints and Object Storage geoavailability (OVHcloud docs), a single
https://s3.<region>.io.cloud.ovh.netendpoint now addresses all buckets and all storage classes in a region, with revised AWS-compatible storage-class mappings (Standard is the default on the unified endpoint; Cold Archive remains Paris-only, and a GLACIER_IR read mapping was added for Active Archive). - Standard 3-AZ class with one-click Offsite Replication. Per OVHcloud's Standard 3-AZ launch announcement and the official Object Storage FAQ, the multi-zone class spreads data across three availability zones with a 99.99% SLA from €14/TB/month, and an Offsite Replication option (€4/TB/month) asynchronously copies buckets to a remote French site (Strasbourg, Gravelines, or Roubaix) from the control panel — a managed answer to the cross-region replication patterns EU shops otherwise script themselves.
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