European object storage providers
5 of the 14 object storage services we track have a parent company in Europe: Bunny Storage, Hetzner Object Storage, Impossible Cloud, OVHcloud Object Storage and Scaleway Object Storage. At 50 TB stored, 20 TB egress to internet / month, 10M writes / month, 100M reads / month, the lowest European estimate is $4,464/yr for Hetzner Object Storage, against $3,600/yr for the cheapest US-owned option, IDrive e2. All of them offer EU data residency on a self-serve plan.
The median estimate is $5,370/yr across European services and $13,199/yr across US-owned ones, at the same usage.
“European” means the ultimate parent company is in the EU/EEA, the UK or Switzerland. That describes ownership, not where your data is stored or every law that applies. How we define jurisdiction.
European object storage services by estimated bill
| Service | Parent company in | EU residency (self-serve) | Est. yearly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hetzner Object StorageS3-compatible storage in German and Finnish data centres; flat base fee with 1 TB storage and 1 TB egress included, free API calls. | 🇩🇪 Germany | Yes | $4,464/yr$343 storage + $21 egress + $0 requestsPublished rates |
| OVHcloud Object StorageS3-compatible object storage from French cloud OVHcloud with free egress and free API requests; billed per GiB-hour stored. | 🇫🇷 France | Yes | $4,770/yr$398 storage + $0 egress + $0 requestsPublished rates |
| Impossible CloudHamburg-based S3-compatible storage on decentralised European data centres; flat per-TB price, no egress or API fees. | 🇩🇪 Germany | Yes | $5,370/yr$448 storage + $0 egress + $0 requestsPublished rates |
| Scaleway Object StorageS3-compatible storage from French cloud Scaleway in Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw; requests included, low egress fee after 75 GB. | 🇫🇷 FranceIliad Group | Yes | $8,072/yr$450 storage + $223 egress + $0 requestsPublished rates |
| Bunny StorageEdge-replicated storage from Slovenia-based bunny.net; per-GB storage, no API fees, public delivery billed at bunny CDN rates. | 🇸🇮 Slovenia | Yes | $8,400/yr$500 storage + $200 egress + $0 requestsPublished rates |
At 50 TB stored, 20 TB egress to internet / month, 10M writes / month, 100M reads / month. Standard (hot) tier, 1 TB = 1,000 GB. Minimum storage durations and retrieval fees for cold tiers aren’t modelled. Sources last checked 2026-10-06. Change the usage to see bills for your workload.
European alternatives to US services
- Amazon S3 ($35,778/yr): Hetzner Object Storage is estimated at $4,464/yr, $31,314/yr less.
- Cloudflare R2 ($9,970/yr): Hetzner Object Storage is estimated at $4,464/yr, $5,506/yr less.
- Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage ($4,794/yr): Hetzner Object Storage is estimated at $4,464/yr, $330/yr less.
- Backblaze B2 ($4,169/yr): no European service in our data is cheaper at this usage. The lowest is Hetzner Object Storage at $4,464/yr.
Bills leave out features, performance, support and migration work. Check the provider notes before you switch.
US-owned services with EU data residency
These offer EU data residency on a self-serve plan, but their parent company is in the US.
- Amazon S3 — AWS's object storage, billed per GB stored, per request and per GB of internet egress, with tiered volume discounts.
- Azure Blob Storage — Microsoft Azure's object storage, billed per GB stored by tier and redundancy, per operation and per GB of internet egress.
- Backblaze B2 — Low-cost S3-compatible storage; egress free up to 3x stored data, no API transaction fees for uploads, downloads or lists.
- Cloudflare R2 — S3-compatible object storage from Cloudflare with no egress fees; billed per GB stored and per operation.
- DigitalOcean Spaces — S3-compatible storage with built-in CDN; $5/month subscription includes 250 GiB storage and 1 TiB outbound transfer.
- Google Cloud Storage — Google Cloud's object storage, billed per GB stored, per operation and per GB of internet egress.
- IDrive e2 — Low-cost S3-compatible storage with no API fees and free egress up to 3x stored data; 1 TB minimum charge.
- Tigris — Globally distributed S3-compatible storage with no egress fees; billed per GB stored and per request.
- Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage — Flat-rate S3-compatible storage with no egress or API fees, under a fair-use policy that caps monthly egress at the volume stored.