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Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean

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Re: Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean

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Post by truetraveller »

I was really excited about DO spaces. I compared every major Object Storage (OVH,B2,Wasabi,S3,Azure). DO spaces came out much ahead. I did dozens of hours of research. I was a customer (and I still am). But I am less excited now.

Basically, there are loads of issues with rejected requests because of rate limiting (returns a lot of 503 "slow down" responses). Basically, I don't recall ever receiving this from S3. You can check the forums to see more in-depth discussion.

The good part: This is a solvable problem, and I hope they relax these limits very soon.

Another great anecdote: their API is 99% compatible with S3. In fact, the official recommendation is to use the AWS SDKs on the server, which I am doing!

Re: Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean

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Post by cyberferret »

(*) for a particular use case.

The example is 200GB storage with 2000GB data transfer (out) every month. That's a LOT of data going out every month, so I am guessing the scenario is if you are hosting a photo library and lots of people are downloading every month.

If however you are just using the service as an online storage to hold Not knocking either service - I actually use both, for different use cases.

Re: Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean

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Post by cyberferret »

Lunatic666 wrote: post #6

Is there any open source S3 compatible software? I know Riak Cloud Storage ( http://docs.basho.com/riak/cs/2.1.1/ ), but I think it’s not maintained anymore.

I believe minio.io provides open source S3 compatible storage on your own servers.

Re: Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean

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Post by stagbeetle »

The main cost seems to be bandwidth (speeds). If you've ever tried Spaces, you know it's a real slog uploading and downloading (even with good client-side speeds). DropBox has similar specs to Spaces, and does it for only $10. OneDrive has the same thing with $7 for 1TB. And there's another Chinese company, Tencent, that gives you 10TB for free (except it's slow and it's all in Chinese).

The problem I have with this article (very brief table), is that the author is comparing two "enterprise" solutions to a consumer solution. With "enterprise" solutions, you get guaranteed uptime and speeds. With Spaces, and the rest I've mentioned, you don't get any of that. Only that your data will still be there as long as you pay out.

Re: Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean

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Post by Blackstone4 »

cyberferret wrote: post #5

(*) for a particular use case. The example is 200GB storage with 2000GB data transfer (out) every month. That's a LOT of data going out every month, so I am guessing the scenario is if you are hosting a photo library and lots of people are downloading every month. If however you are just using the service as an online storage to hold Not knocking either service - I actually use both, for different use cases.

When you say way cheaper what do you mean? Like savings of ~$5-10 on a spend of $10-20? Or is it material? Like $50

Re: Object Storage: AWS vs Google Cloud Storage vs Azure Storage vs DigitalOcean

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Post by cyberferret »

Blackstone4 wrote: post #9
cyberferret wrote: post #5

(*) for a particular use case. The example is 200GB storage with 2000GB data transfer (out) every month. That's a LOT of data going out every month, so I am guessing the scenario is if you are hosting a photo library and lots of people are downloading every month. If however you are just using the service as an online storage to hold Not knocking either service - I actually use both, for different use cases.

When you say way cheaper what do you mean? Like savings of ~$5-10 on a spend of $10-20? Or is it material? Like $50

Well, DO is a minimum of $5 per month (up to 250GB IIRC). 100GB on S3 with just uploads during the month will run under $2.
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