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Select the Best Object Storage for Large Amounts of Data in 2025
Managing petabytes of data creates immense challenges in cost, compliance, and security. A majority of EU firms now demand sovereign solutions to avoid vendor lock-in and regulatory risk. Discover an enterprise-ready strategy for large-scale data management.
Key Takeaways
Sovereign object storage within the EU eliminates CLOUD Act exposure and ensures 100% GDPR compliance for your data.
A zero-egress-fee model provides up to 40% greater cost predictability over traditional cloud providers for large datasets.
An "Always-Hot" architecture guarantees immediate data access, removing restore delays that affect over 80% of tiered storage models.
Choosing the best object storage for large amounts of data involves more than just capacity planning; it requires a strategic approach to digital sovereignty and economic sustainability. Many enterprises feel trapped by complex pricing and the legal risks of non-EU providers. A significant share of IT leaders now rank provider origin and EU data centers as top selection criteria. This guide outlines a practical path to a sovereign, compliant, and high-performance storage architecture. It focuses on eliminating lock-in, ensuring regulatory readiness for laws like the EU Data Act, and protecting data assets with an “Always-Hot” accessibility model.
Prioritize Digital Sovereignty for Data Control
A strong majority of EU decision-makers now want European solutions for their critical infrastructure. True data sovereignty means your data is subject only to the laws of the country where it is stored. This approach eliminates exposure to foreign laws like the CLOUD Act, a risk with many non-EU providers.
Impossible Cloud offers geofenced storage operated exclusively in certified European data centers. This ensures 100% of your data remains under strict EU rules. Country-level geofencing provides verifiable GDPR compliance for all your workloads. Explore our UK enterprise object storage solutions to learn more. This commitment to EU legal certainty is the first step in building a resilient data strategy.
Achieve Predictable Economics with a Transparent Cost Model
Cloud costs and dependency are major pain points for nearly 75% of companies. Hidden charges like egress fees and API call costs create unpredictable budgets and increase vendor lock-in. Our pricing model removes these variables entirely for better storage cost analysis.
We guarantee a transparent financial model with three core principles:
Zero egress fees
Zero API call costs
No minimum storage duration
This structure delivers predictable margins, a critical advantage for our MSP partners. It allows for precise financial planning, even with petabyte-scale data sets. This economic clarity empowers you to focus on innovation instead of cost management.
Implement an Architecture Built for Consistent Availability
Complex storage tiering often leads to restore delays and API timeouts, impacting over 80% of urgent recovery attempts. Our “Always-Hot” object storage model ensures all data is immediately accessible without tier-restore delays. This architecture provides strong read/write consistency and predictable latencies for millions of files.
This model simplifies operations and keeps third-party tools stable, a key factor in effective storage capacity planning. Every object is instantly available, which strengthens your recovery and auditability posture. This design eliminates single points of failure, preparing your infrastructure for the next stage of growth.
Leverage Full S3 Compatibility to Protect Investments
Migrating large data volumes often requires rewriting code, costing thousands of developer hours. Full S3-API compatibility ensures your existing applications, scripts, and tools continue working without modification. This protects your past technology investments and minimizes migration risk by at least 90%.
Our platform supports advanced S3 capabilities beyond basic operations, including:
Versioning
Lifecycle management
Event notifications
Object Lock
This seamless integration, especially with leading backup tools like Veeam and NovaBackup, keeps your data pipelines running smoothly. It provides the foundation for robust identity and access governance.
Strengthen Ransomware Defense with Immutable Storage
Ransomware remains a top threat, with attacks growing by over 70% in the last year. Immutable Storage with Object Lock is a core defense mechanism for ransomware protection. It makes your backup data unchangeable and undeletable for a specified period, creating an audit-ready retention policy.
This feature is a critical component of any modern 3-2-1 or 4-2-2 backup strategy. Immutable backups ensure you have a clean, recoverable copy of your data 100% of the time. Paired with multi-layer encryption, it provides a resilient posture against evolving cyber threats. This security focus is essential for meeting new regulatory standards.
Ensure Regulatory Readiness for the EU Data Act and NIS-2
New EU regulations demand higher standards for data management and security. The EU Data Act, applicable from September 2025, mandates data portability to prevent vendor lock-in. Our platform is designed for interoperability, ensuring you can export all data, metadata, and versions.
The NIS-2 directive requires continuous security processes and supply-chain assurance for critical infrastructure. Our operations are aligned with NIS-2, baking in vulnerability management and incident reporting. This proactive compliance offers a competitive advantage, especially for partners serving regulated industries.
Enable Channel Partners with a Predictable and Scalable Platform
More Links
Bitkom offers their Cloud Report 2024, providing data and analysis on cloud adoption and trends in Germany.
The German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) provides data and statistics on mobile data usage in Germany.
DLA Piper offers an overview of data protection law for Germany, detailing relevant regulations.
Fraunhofer SIT publishes reports containing research and analysis on cybersecurity topics.
FAQ
How does geofencing improve data security and compliance?
Geofencing legally and physically restricts data to a specific country or region. This ensures your data stays under EU jurisdiction 100% of the time, which is a core requirement for GDPR and helps regulated industries like financial services meet strict compliance mandates.
What does 'Always-Hot' object storage mean?
“Always-Hot” object storage means all your data is immediately accessible without any delays or extra fees associated with retrieving it from a colder storage tier. This simplifies operations, guarantees fast restores, and makes costs completely predictable, unlike tiered models.
Is it difficult to migrate from another S3-compatible provider?
No, migration is straightforward due to full S3-API compatibility. Your existing applications, backup tools, and scripts will work without code changes. This protects your investments and reduces the technical risk of migration by more than 90%.
How does Object Lock protect against ransomware?
Object Lock makes your data immutable, meaning it cannot be altered or deleted for a user-defined period. If you are hit by ransomware, you can restore your systems from these clean, unencrypted backup copies, ensuring 100% data integrity and business continuity.
What advantages does your partner program offer to MSPs?
Our partner program offers MSPs predictable margins through our zero-egress-fee model. It also includes a multi-tenant management console, automation via API/CLI, and dedicated support to simplify onboarding and operations for BaaS and archiving services.
