Aruba Cloud
Italy· Cloud Computing
Aruba Cloud vs Contabo Object Storage
Comparez Aruba Cloud et Contabo Object Storage sur les capacités, la juridiction, les garanties et l'adéquation pour les acheteurs européens.
Tous deux listés comme alternatives à: DigitalOcean
Contabo Object Storage
Germany· Cloud Computing
Needs review
Shortlist when you want a Ceph S3 bucket next to Contabo VPS or VDS, can use path-style endpoints, and can live without S3 logging. Skip when you need Amazon-complete S3, a first-party custom TLS hostname, company-wide ISO 27001 or SOC 2, or a store with no US parent and no US region. Consider Hetzner Object Storage or OVHcloud Object Storage instead.
S3-compatible (partial)Ceph backendEU region availableGerman GmbHIn-panel DPA
Les lignes surlignées diffèrent entre les deux produits.
| Caractéristique | Aruba Cloud | Contabo Object Storage |
|---|---|---|
| Pays d'origine | Italy | Germany |
| Catégorie | Cloud Computing | Cloud Computing |
| Open source | Non | Non |
| Auto-hébergé | Non | Non |
| Siège | Non indiqué | Germany |
| Entité légale | Non indiqué | Contabo GmbH (Welfenstrasse 22, 81541 Munich; AG Munich HRB 180722; VAT DE267602842) |
| Maison mère / contrôle US | Non indiqué | Maison mère ou contrôle US |
| Exposition CLOUD Act (indicative) | Non indiqué | Élevé |
| Hébergement / résidence | Non indiqué | Object storage sold in the EU (eu2.contabostorage.com), United States (usc1.contabostorage.com), and Singapore (sin1.contabostorage.com). Contabo operates its own data centers. No public object-storage subprocessor list. Management API auth is at auth.contabo.com. Official custom-domain docs use Cloudflare as an optional customer-side proxy, not as the S3 data plane. |
| Résumé | Italian sovereign cloud from Aruba S.p.A.: OpenStack public cloud, VMware private cloud, bare metal/GPU, Kubernetes, and storage on proprietary European data centers—strong fit for Italian PA and EU residency-minded IT. | S3-compatible object storage from Munich-based Contabo GmbH, running on Ceph with EU, US, and Singapore endpoints. |
| Tags |
| En un coup d'œil | Aruba Cloud | Contabo Object Storage |
|---|---|---|
| HQ | Non indiqué | Munich, Germany (Contabo GmbH, HRB 180722) |
| Product | Non indiqué | Hosted Ceph S3 object storage |
| S3 regions | Non indiqué | EU (eu2), United States (usc1), Singapore (sin1) |
| Addressing | Non indiqué | Path-style; HTTPS only |
| Commercial model | Non indiqué | Purchased capacity with optional auto-scale; no per-GB egress on Contabo's stated model |
| Ownership | Non indiqué | KKR majority (2022), Oakley Capital Fund V minority |
| Key capabilities | Aruba Cloud | Contabo Object Storage |
|---|---|---|
| S3-compatible (partial) | Non indiqué | Oui |
| Ceph backend | Non indiqué | Oui |
| EU region available | Non indiqué | Oui |
| German GmbH | Non indiqué | Oui |
| In-panel DPA | Non indiqué | Oui |
Aruba Cloud
Serveurs bare metal et VPS
Les serveurs dédiés offrent du matériel récent avec configuration complète et gestion simplifiée. Les variantes QuickStart se déploient en 24 heures pour les besoins urgents. Les VPS sur OpenStack fournissent des VM rentables. Les serveurs GPU soutiennent l'IA privée et le machine learning. Des add-ons réseau comme pare-feu et Switch as a Service construisent des environnements sécurisés. Exploitation dans des centres italiens hautement notés pour une faible latence.
Services de cloud public
Les serveurs cloud OpenStack gèrent test et production avec trafic illimité. Les centres de données virtuels évoluent avec les outils de l'écosystème. Kubernetes managé simplifie les clusters ; Application Platform utilise la technologie conteneurs pour l'efficacité. Container Registry stocke les images en sécurité. Database as a Service gère les bases relationnelles. Le monitoring couvre sites et serveurs. Options de stockage : object storage compatible S3 et volumes block.
Solutions optimisées VMware
Les serveurs VMware Cloud fournissent des VM fiables. Les clouds privés virtuels permettent réseaux propres, pare-feu et gestion via VMware Cloud Director. Unified Storage partage les données entre environnements. Disaster Recovery utilise Zerto, Veeam ou outils vSphere. Les sauvegardes protègent les VPC avec Veeam sur bare metal. En tant que VMware Pinnacle Partner, Aruba assure une intégration étroite pour les entreprises.
Services de stockage et sauvegarde
Smart Storage sécurise les données serveur de façon conforme. Cloud Object Storage offre la compatibilité S3. Block Storage complète les disques évolutifs. Sauvegardes via cloud, sans agent pour VDC/Kubernetes ou protection Microsoft 365 avec Veeam et Commvault. Des promotions comme 50 % de réduction sur les packs Commvault apparaissent périodiquement. Protection contre la perte de données en configurations hybrides.
Contabo Object Storage
Ceph S3 API with path-style buckets
Contabo states the store is Ceph-based and largely S3 compatible, not fully equivalent to Amazon S3. Logging is not supported. Official tool notes require Contabo S3 URLs, path-style buckets, and access_key/secret_key mapped to aws_access_key_id/aws_secret_access_key.
EU, US, and Singapore S3 endpoints
Documented base URLs are eu2.contabostorage.com (European Union), usc1.contabostorage.com (United States), and sin1.contabostorage.com (Singapore). The management API allows one object-storage purchase per location. All locations on an account share the same S3 credentials.
Bucket versioning and Object Lock
Versioning is enabled per bucket via s3api put-bucket-versioning on the regional endpoint. Suspending versioning stops new versions but does not delete old ones. Object Lock can be turned on at bucket creation (example uses GOVERNANCE mode) so objects cannot be overwritten or deleted for a retention period.
Capacity auto-scale via management API
The Contabo API (not the S3 API) orders, upgrades, cancels, and auto-scales purchased space up to a monthly size limit. Usage statistics are exposed there. The open-source cntb CLI (GPL-3.0) wraps the same management API. S3 keys come from the User Management API or the Object Storage panel.
Published client list and hard limits
Documented working tools include cntb, aws cli, rclone, Cyberduck, goofys, s3fs-fuse, s3cmd, WinSCP, Cloudberry Explorer, BucketAnywhere, Virtualmin, Velero, and Plesk. FileZilla Pro is listed as incompatible. Defaults include 5 TB max object size, 100 buckets, 3 million objects (increasable on request), 250 requests per second, and 10 MByte/s default bandwidth.
| Assurance & compliance | Aruba Cloud | Contabo Object Storage |
|---|---|---|
| Independent security / no-logs audit | Non indiqué | Not found Searched About, help, and product docs. No public independent audit PDF for Object Storage. |
| ISO 27001 | Non indiqué | Partial Some Contabo location marketing pages list colocation-facility ISO 27001 (for example Singapore). No company-wide Contabo ISO 27001 certificate found. |
| SOC 2 / SOC 3 | Non indiqué | Not found No Contabo-issued SOC 2 or SOC 3 report found. Facility-level SOC marks on some non-EU location pages are not treated as a Contabo attestation. |
| GDPR / EU data protection | Non indiqué | Vendor claimed EU legal entity; DPA available in the Customer Control Panel and listed as covering Object Storage. EU region is optional, not exclusive. |
| US CLOUD Act exposure (indicative) | Non indiqué | Partial Contabo GmbH is German, but KKR (US) has been the majority investor since June 2022 and Contabo sells a US object-storage region. Not legal advice. |
| Data processing agreement (B2B) | Non indiqué | Vendor claimed Customer Control Panel wizard. Object Storage is an explicit covered service. Review the generated PDF. |
| EU AI Act | Non indiqué | Not applicable Object storage IaaS, not an AI system. |
| Considerations & known limitations | Aruba Cloud | Contabo Object Storage |
|---|---|---|
| US private-equity majority owner | Non indiqué | High Oakley Capital announced in June 2022 that KKR would be majority investor, with Oakley Fund V retaining a minority stake. Treat CLOUD Act exposure as high at the ownership layer even when objects sit on eu2.contabostorage.com. |
| Optional United States object region | Non indiqué | Medium usc1.contabostorage.com is a first-party SKU. Shared credentials across locations make it easy to point a client at the US endpoint by mistake. Pin the EU URL if residency is a hard requirement. |
| Partial S3 compatibility | Non indiqué | Medium Contabo states the Ceph API is not fully compatible with AWS S3. Logging is unsupported. Path-style addressing is required. FileZilla Pro does not work. Test SDK features before migrating production. |
| Default request and bandwidth caps | Non indiqué | Medium Published defaults include 250 API requests per second, 10 MByte/s bandwidth, 100 buckets, and 3 million objects. Auto-scale increases purchased terabytes, not those caps. |
| No public company-wide audit | Non indiqué | Medium No independent Object Storage audit, Contabo-issued ISO 27001, or SOC 2 report was found. Facility ISO/SOC marks on some location pages are not a substitute. |
| No first-party custom TLS hostname | Non indiqué | Low HTTPS-only S3 endpoints reject a simple CNAME. Public websites need a customer-operated reverse proxy. Public-to-private ACL changes may remain cached for up to one hour. |
Adéquation
Aruba Cloud
Best fit when
Non indiqué
Poor fit when
Non indiqué
Contabo Object Storage
Best fit when
- Teams already on Contabo Cloud VPS or VDS that need a same-account backup or media bucket
- Workloads that speak standard S3 via rclone, aws cli, Velero, Plesk, or s3cmd and can use path-style URLs
- Buyers who want capacity-tier billing without per-gigabyte egress modelling
- Operators who can pin eu2.contabostorage.com and sign the in-panel DPA
- Buckets that need versioning or Object Lock but not S3 server access logging
Poor fit when
- Applications that require full Amazon S3 feature parity, especially server access logging or virtual-hosted bucket names
- Public websites that need a first-party custom hostname and TLS without a reverse proxy
- Procurement that requires company-wide ISO 27001 or SOC 2, or a vendor with no US private-equity majority owner
- Strict EU-only policies if anyone on the account might create a US or Singapore store
- High-QPS or multi-gigabit pipelines that will hit the documented 250 rps or 10 MByte/s defaults
Consider instead when
When: You want a German hoster's object store with an EU-concentrated footprint and no US majority PE owner
Consider: Hetzner Object Storage
Contabo's own comparison places Hetzner object storage in European data centers and notes a thinner APAC story.
When: You need a broader EU compliance portfolio (ISO 27001, SecNumCloud) more than a simple capacity bill
Consider: OVHcloud Object Storage
Billing and product surface are more complex than Contabo's single-account IaaS stack.
When: You need managed Kubernetes or managed Postgres next to S3, not just raw buckets
Consider: Scaleway Object Storage
France-first footprint. Contabo does not sell first-party managed databases or Kubernetes.
When: You need Amazon-complete S3 (logging, IAM, global regions) and will accept a US cloud
Consider: Amazon S3
Use Contabo only after you have tested the Ceph compatibility gaps against your SDK.
Open questions for due diligence
Aruba Cloud
Non indiqué
Contabo Object Storage
- Is there a current company-wide ISO 27001 or SOC 2 for Contabo GmbH (not a colocation-facility mark)?
- Where is the public subprocessor list for Object Storage, backups, support tooling, and the Customer Control Panel?
- Does Contabo offer server-side encryption at rest and customer-managed keys for objects? Not documented on the pages reviewed.
- What is the Ceph replication factor / durability target for each object-storage region?
- The marketing URL https://contabo.com/en/object-storage/ returned Storage VPS content when fetched during research. Confirm the SKU is still sold and the product page has not been retired.