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.
- 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.
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