S3-Compatible Object Storage

S3 Storage
that never leaves Europe

S3-compatible storage hosted in Germany. 1TB storage + 1TB traffic included. Free API requests, no egress traps. Same SDKs, same CLI — just change the endpoint.

100% S3 Compatible Zero US Jurisdiction German Data Centers No Per-Request Fees

Object Storage

scales with your needs
€ 3.99monthly
1 TB
1 TBadditional storage €3.85/TB100 TB
1 TB
1 TBadditional traffic €0.8/TB100 TB
Create Your First Bucket

excl. VAT · Billed hourly · Cancel anytime · No lock-in

European-Owned
GDPR Compliant
German Data Centers
AES-256 Encryption
99.9% Uptime SLA
DPA Included

Buckets and keys, in your shell.

Create, configure and rotate every S3 bucket and access key with one install. A live IDE-style preview of @danubedata/cli.

~/fleetObject · buckets
danube storage buckets ls
List all buckets
SYNOPSIS  danube storage buckets ls
$
$ npm install -g @danubedata/cli · Full reference → ·Free & open source · MIT

Full S3 API Compatibility

Use your existing S3 tools and SDKs. Just change the endpoint URL.

Recommended

Path-Style

Drop-in replacement for AWS S3. Works with every S3 client, SDK and CLI tool — just change the endpoint.

Endpoint URL200 OK
https://s3.danubedata.ro/my-bucket/file.txt
$ aws s3 cp file.txt s3://my-bucket/ \
--endpoint-url https://s3.danubedata.ro

Virtual-Host Style

https://my-bucket.s3.danubedata.ro/file.txt

AWS-style subdomain access. Great for static website hosting.

SFTP

NAS
sftp -P 2222 KEY@sftp.s3.danubedata.ro

Same credentials. Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS, FileZilla.

Enterprise-Grade Features

End-to-End

Encryption

SSE-S3, SSE-KMS and SSE-C at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit. Per-bucket keys with rotation.

TLS 1.3 · AES-256-GCM live
→ ClientHello · chosen cipher
← ServerHello · cert + key share
← Finished · keys derived
▓▓ encrypted: aB3kZ9pQ7m·LqRv8eX2sT·fH6wNcY1uPo

High Durability

Erasure-coded across multiple nodes. 11 nines target.

Access Keys

Multiple keys per bucket with fine-grained permissions.

Pre-signed URLs

Time-limited download links — set expiry per request, no key sharing.

Bucket Policies

Public access rules and lifecycle management.

CORS Rules

Serve assets directly to web apps from storage.

Object Browser

Web-based file manager for uploads and downloads.

Usage Metrics

Real-time storage, request, and bandwidth monitoring.

Real-World Performance

Independent benchmarks using MinIO warp with 16 concurrent connections over TLS

463 MiB/s
Upload Throughput
64 MiB objects, 16 threads
473 MiB/s
Download Throughput
10 MiB objects, 16 threads
1.8ms
HEAD Latency
Median metadata lookup
50,149
LIST obj/s
Object listing speed

Throughput by Object Size

Object Size PUT GETPUT ops/sGET ops/s
1 MiB175 MiB/s432 MiB/s175 obj/s432 obj/s
10 MiB400 MiB/s473 MiB/s40 obj/s47 obj/s
64 MiB463 MiB/s468 MiB/s7.2 obj/s7.3 obj/s

S3 Operation Performance

OperationThroughputAvg Latencyp99 Latency
PUT175 obj/s95ms303ms
GET432 obj/s38ms94ms
HEAD8,835 obj/s1.8ms7.5ms
DELETE51 obj/s49ms215ms
LIST50,149 obj/s199ms333ms

Methodology: Benchmarks performed using MinIO warp v1.1.4 with 16 concurrent connections over TLS to the public endpoint (s3.danubedata.ro). Tests ran for 2 minutes per operation from a server in the same Hetzner datacenter (Falkenstein, Germany). April 2026.

See What Your Current Provider Is Missing

Feature-by-feature: European S3 storage vs. US hyperscalers

FeatureDanubeDataAWS S3Google CloudAzure Blob
Base Price (per month)€3.99Pay-per-usePay-per-usePay-per-use
Included Storage1TBNoneNoneNone
Included Outbound Traffic1TBPay-per-GBPay-per-GBPay-per-GB
Free API Requests———
S3 API Compatibility——
EU Data ResidencyOptionalOptionalOptional
European-Owned Provider———
US Cloud Act ExposureNoneYesYesYes
GDPR Compliant
Free Inbound Traffic
Virtual-Host Style Access——
Built-in Object Browser

Ready to switch?

Same S3 API, predictable pricing, data stays in Europe. Create your first bucket in under a minute.

Create Your First Bucket

Built for Every Use Case

Plug-and-play

NAS & Backups

Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS, rclone — via SFTP or S3 API. Same credentials, mount and rsync straight into your buckets.

Connected · 5 clients syncing
● Synology DS923+
via S3
● QNAP TS-464
via S3
● TrueNAS Scale
via S3
● rclone
via S3
● FileZilla
via SFTP :2222

Media Storage

Images, video, and audio with CDN-ready delivery.

GDPR Compliance

EU-only storage. Data never leaves Falkenstein.

Object Storage FAQ

S3-compatible storage in Europe.

  • Yes. Our storage provides 100% S3 API compatibility. You can use any S3 SDK, CLI tool (aws-cli), or application that supports S3 without any code changes.

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Virtual Machines

AMD Zen4 powered VPS with NVMe storage

Database Solutions

PostgreSQL, MySQL & MariaDB with auto-scaling

Cache Solutions

Redis, Valkey & Dragonfly caches

Your European Customers Expect Their Data to Stay in Europe

Switch in under 5 minutes — same tools, same code, same SDKs. The only thing that changes is where your data lives and who has jurisdiction over it.

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No contracts · No lock-in · Full data portability via standard S3 tools · Cancel in one click