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  OVH PCS $0.0112/month/GB
  AWS S3  $0.0245/month/GB

Less than half the price, if you are willing to believe they are comparable products. Actually pretty great performance they offer as well for taking encrypted backups etc.

But I think your comment is still generally fair in terms of the quality of the rest of their offerings. I would also add one more strong point for OVH - kick-ass DDoS protection.

S3 has had it's own (catastrophic) issues as well. The failure mode for PCS so far has been more irritating, however - it will fail you every 1000'th request or so.

Also data transfer pricing is somewhere between 10% and 20% of the Amazon price.

That's not 10% off. That's 90% off.

https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

And add traffic costs to that. $1.1c/GB is a fraction of AWS which makes it attractive for objects that are requested frequently.

That x 1000

I am not that into the whole data storage world but for backupping my NAS I looked into Backblaze which is a lot cheaper than both at $0.005/month/GB.

Backblaze is not built to handle thousands of concurrent connections towards specific content, while both OVH and S3 are.

Amazon S3's Glacier storage tier is even cheaper at $0.004/GB/month.

And OVH's archive is $0.0023/GB/month. Although I guess that with archive storage, transfer and access costs could be a significant part of the bill. But OVH's business model is to be cheaper than AWS so I guess they'll end up below the AWS price.

You also need to factor in Glacier retrieval fees and AWS's data transfer fees. Also watch out for extra fees for early deletion.

Have a look at wasabi.

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