Confronta Contabo Object Storage e Scaleway su capacità, giurisdizione, garanzie e idoneità per acquirenti europei.
Entrambi elencati come alternative a: DigitalOcean
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.
France· Cloud Computing
Le righe evidenziate differiscono tra i due prodotti.
| Caratteristica | Contabo Object Storage | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Paese di origine | Germany | France |
| Categoria | Cloud Computing | Cloud Computing |
| Open source | No | No |
| Self-hosted | No | No |
| Sede | Germany | Non indicato |
| Soggetto giuridico | Contabo GmbH (Welfenstrasse 22, 81541 Munich; AG Munich HRB 180722; VAT DE267602842) | Non indicato |
| Capogruppo / controllo USA | Capogruppo o controllo USA | Non indicato |
| Esposizione CLOUD Act (indicativa) | Alto | Non indicato |
| Hosting / residenza | 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. | Non indicato |
| Riassunto | S3-compatible object storage from Munich-based Contabo GmbH, running on Ceph with EU, US, and Singapore endpoints. | French iliad-group cloud platform: bare metal, virtual instances, EU-resident GPU for AI, managed Kubernetes, serverless, storage and databases on Scaleway-operated multi-AZ regions in Europe. |
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| A colpo d'occhio | Contabo Object Storage | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| HQ | Munich, Germany (Contabo GmbH, HRB 180722) | Non indicato |
| Product | Hosted Ceph S3 object storage | Non indicato |
| S3 regions | EU (eu2), United States (usc1), Singapore (sin1) | Non indicato |
| Addressing | Path-style; HTTPS only | Non indicato |
| Commercial model | Purchased capacity with optional auto-scale; no per-GB egress on Contabo's stated model | Non indicato |
| Ownership | KKR majority (2022), Oakley Capital Fund V minority | Non indicato |
| Key capabilities | Contabo Object Storage | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| S3-compatible (partial) | Sì | Non indicato |
| Ceph backend | Sì | Non indicato |
| EU region available | Sì | Non indicato |
| German GmbH | Sì | Non indicato |
| In-panel DPA | Sì | Non indicato |
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.
Server bare metal Elastic Metal
Istanze on-demand Aluminium, Iridium, Titanium GPU. Deploy in minuti via API; root completo. Da ~0,02 €/ora. Nessun overhead virtualizzazione per DB o gaming.
Istanze GPU e strumenti AI
GPU NVIDIA L40S, H100, B300-SXM per training e inference. Cluster GPU custom. API generative e inference gestita. Integrazione Kubernetes.
Kubernetes gestito e database
Kapsule e Kosmos multi-cloud. DB gestiti PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB. Object storage S3-compatible. Supporto 24/7.
| Assurance & compliance | Contabo Object Storage | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Independent security / no-logs audit | Not found Searched About, help, and product docs. No public independent audit PDF for Object Storage. | Non indicato |
| ISO 27001 | Partial Some Contabo location marketing pages list colocation-facility ISO 27001 (for example Singapore). No company-wide Contabo ISO 27001 certificate found. | Non indicato |
| SOC 2 / SOC 3 | 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. | Non indicato |
| GDPR / EU data protection | Vendor claimed EU legal entity; DPA available in the Customer Control Panel and listed as covering Object Storage. EU region is optional, not exclusive. | Non indicato |
| US CLOUD Act exposure (indicative) | 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. | Non indicato |
| Data processing agreement (B2B) | Vendor claimed Customer Control Panel wizard. Object Storage is an explicit covered service. Review the generated PDF. | Non indicato |
| EU AI Act | Not applicable Object storage IaaS, not an AI system. | Non indicato |
| Considerations & known limitations | Contabo Object Storage | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| US private-equity majority owner | 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. | Non indicato |
| Optional United States object region | 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. | Non indicato |
| Partial S3 compatibility | 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. | Non indicato |
| Default request and bandwidth caps | 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. | Non indicato |
| No public company-wide audit | 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. | Non indicato |
| No first-party custom TLS hostname | 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. | Non indicato |
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.
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