OVHcloud is looking to expand into object storage, one of the most attractive features offered by AWS and its competitors.
The offering will be called High-Performance Object Storage, a pretty self-descriptive name, and OVHcloud says it can scale up to a petabyte. Pricing is pretty straightforward: €25 per terabyte per month and €0,01 per gigabyte of output. API requests are free.
OVHcloud, Europe's largest data center company, says the storage solution is specifically aimed at companies that want to use large data sets, such as for AI research.
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One of OVHcloud's main strengths is its European character: the bloc seems increasingly hostile to American companies, especially when it comes to data transfers for profit between Europe and America.
Meta recently warned investors that an upcoming EU decision could jeopardize its business on the continent and it stands to reason that AWS falls victim to the same rules.
Cloud computing relies on huge data centers around the world, running 24/7 to host everything from Netflix to Dropbox. If you're using the modern web, you're interacting with a data center.
As mentioned, OVHcloud is the largest data center operator in Europe and the third largest in the world based on physical servers.
While AWS and Azure dominate cloud offerings, there is ample room in the industry for many different companies and regulatory headwinds from the EU could affect OVHcloud.