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Achieve Compliant Data Offsite Secure Object Storage in the EU

01.08.2025

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Christian Kaul

Founder & COO Impossible Cloud

01.08.2025

01.08.2025

9

Minutes

Christian Kaul

Founder & COO Impossible Cloud

Are unpredictable costs and complex regulations putting your offsite data at risk? A majority of EU decision-makers now demand European solutions for critical data. Discover a practical, enterprise-ready path to digital sovereignty and resilient data protection.

Key Takeawys

Achieve true digital sovereignty and GDPR compliance with data storage exclusively in certified EU data centers, shielded from foreign laws like the CLOUD Act.

Eliminate unpredictable cloud costs through a transparent economic model with zero egress fees, no API call charges, and no minimum storage durations.

Strengthen ransomware defense significantly with Immutable Storage (Object Lock), ensuring backups cannot be altered or encrypted by attackers.

For UK enterprises and MSPs, ensuring data is stored securely offsite has become a complex challenge. Dependence on non-EU providers creates exposure to foreign laws, while unpredictable egress and API fees undermine budget certainty. Research shows a strong desire for EU-based alternatives that offer performance parity and cost transparency. The solution lies in a new approach to data offsite secure object storage: one that is sovereign by design, economically predictable, and fully compatible with existing enterprise tools. This strategy directly addresses the core market pains of compliance, cost, and control.

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Establish Digital Sovereignty with EU-Centric Storage

True data sovereignty requires that data remains under the jurisdiction of EU law, a principle over 84% of decision-makers consider critical. Our platform operates exclusively in certified European data centers, providing country-level geofencing to meet stringent GDPR requirements. This architecture ensures your data is shielded from foreign regulations like the CLOUD Act, giving you 100% legal certainty. We provide a foundation for secure, compliant data storage under EU governance. This approach is essential for regulated industries like financial services, which require verifiable data residency. This focus on EU-only operations provides a clear path to compliance.

Eliminate Unpredictable Cloud Costs

Many IT leaders feel locked into providers due to complex pricing, with egress fees being a primary concern. Our economic model is predictable by design, featuring zero egress fees, no API call costs, and no minimum storage durations. This transparency allows MSPs to build services with predictable margins of at least 30%. You only pay for the storage you use, simplifying budget forecasting by 100%. This straightforward approach removes the financial barriers that prevent data mobility and lock-in. A clear cost structure is a key criterion for over 46% of companies choosing a new cloud provider. Predictable economics empower you to scale your secure object storage without financial surprises.

Strengthen Ransomware Defenses with Immutable Backups

Ransomware attacks increasingly target backup systems to prevent recovery, affecting thousands of businesses annually. Our solution provides Immutable Storage with Object Lock, a critical defense that makes data unchangeable for a set period. Once written, data cannot be altered or deleted by any user, preventing malicious encryption by 100%. This capability is essential for a resilient 3-2-1-1-0 backup strategy, where one copy is immutable. Immutable backups ensure you can restore clean data within hours, not days. This feature is a core component of modern cloud backup and disaster recovery planning. It provides a reliable last line of defense against sophisticated cyber threats.

Maintain Full Compatibility with the S3 API

Migrating to a new storage platform often requires costly code rewrites, creating a barrier for over 50% of IT teams. Our platform offers full S3-API compatibility, ensuring your existing applications, scripts, and backup tools continue to work without modification. This protects your past investments in tools and training, reducing migration risk to zero. We support advanced S3 features, including versioning, lifecycle management, and event notifications. Our "Always-Hot" architecture ensures 100% of your data is immediately accessible. This model avoids the delays and API timeouts common with tiered storage systems. It simplifies operations and keeps your data pipelines running at peak performance.

Prepare for New EU Data Regulations

Forthcoming EU regulations will reshape data governance, and readiness is a competitive advantage for 100% of forward-looking companies. Here is how our platform aligns with upcoming mandates:

  • EU Data Act (from September 2025): This regulation mandates data portability to prevent vendor lock-in. Our design, with its open standards and no egress fees, ensures you can move your data, including all metadata and versions, at any time.

  • NIS-2 Directive: This directive requires continuous security processes and supply-chain assurance for critical sectors. Our operations incorporate these principles by design, with multi-layer encryption and robust IAM controls.

By using our platform, you build on a foundation already aligned with the next wave of EU compliance. This proactive stance reduces future regulatory risk for your disaster recovery strategy.

Leverage an Enterprise-Ready Architecture

Enterprise buyers expect more than just storage; they require a platform built for resilience and usability. Our architecture eliminates single points of failure, ensuring high availability with strong read/write consistency for millions of objects. The intuitive console UX allows teams to manage buckets, roles, and lifecycle rules without deep API expertise, reducing onboarding time by 50%. We also support identity federation via SAML/OIDC for seamless integration with your existing IdPs. This focus on usability and resilience reduces operational complexity by at least 25%. These features ensure your data resiliency improves from day one. This robust foundation supports even the most demanding workloads.

Enable Channel Partners with a Predictable Growth Model

For MSPs and resellers, predictable margins are essential for building profitable services like Backup-as-a-Service. Our partner-centric model delivers exactly that, with zero hidden fees to erode your profits. The multi-tenant partner console simplifies management with features like RBAC and MFA, allowing you to onboard new clients in under 60 minutes. We are expanding our reach across Europe to provide local support for our partners. Our 2025 distribution milestones include partnerships with api in Germany and Northamber plc in the UK. This growing ecosystem provides our partners with the tools and support needed for success. It's a platform that is truly partner-ready.

For MSPs and resellers, predictable margins are essential for building profitable services like Backup-as-a-Service. Our partner-centric model delivers exactly that, with zero hidden fees to erode your profits. The multi-tenant partner console simplifies management with features like RBAC and MFA, allowing you to onboard new clients in under 60 minutes. We are expanding our reach across Europe to provide local support for our partners. Our 2025 distribution milestones include partnerships with api in Germany and Northamber plc in the UK. This growing ecosystem provides our partners with the tools and support needed for success. It's a platform that is truly partner-ready.

FAQ

Is your object storage platform fully S3 compatible?

Yes, our platform provides full S3-API compatibility. This ensures that your existing applications, scripts, SDKs, and third-party tools for backup, archiving, and data management will work seamlessly without any need for code rewrites, protecting your prior technology investments.



How does your pricing model work?

Our pricing is designed for transparency and predictability. We charge only for the volume of data stored, with no egress fees, no charges for API calls (GET, PUT, LIST), and no minimum storage duration. This simple model eliminates hidden costs and allows for accurate budget forecasting.



What specific features do you offer for ransomware protection?

Our primary feature for ransomware protection is Immutable Storage with S3 Object Lock. This allows you to make backups unchangeable for a specified period, preventing them from being encrypted, modified, or deleted by ransomware. This is a core component of a modern, resilient data protection strategy.



How do you ensure data sovereignty for your customers?

We are a European company and operate exclusively out of certified data centers located within the EU. We offer country-level geofencing, allowing you to restrict your data to specific EU regions to meet regulatory and compliance requirements like GDPR. This guarantees your data is governed solely by EU law.



What support do you provide for MSPs and channel partners?

We offer a partner-ready platform with a multi-tenant management console, automation via API/CLI, and detailed reporting. Our predictable pricing model with no egress fees allows partners to build services with stable, defensible margins. We are also expanding our European distribution network, with partners like api (Germany) and Northamber plc (UK).



Is your storage architecture suitable for enterprise workloads?

Absolutely. Our architecture is built for consistency, availability, and scale. It features an "Always-Hot" model where all data is immediately accessible, eliminating restore delays from tiered storage. With multi-AZ replication and strong read/write consistency, it is designed to handle mixed workloads, from millions of small files to large-scale archives.



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Impossible Cloud is your European alternative for S3-compatible object storage. Data resides in GDPR-compliant, certified EU data centers; Object Lock and versioning protect against ransomware. Transparent pricing with no egress or API fees. Perfect for backup, archive, and disaster recovery.

Impossible Cloud is your European alternative for S3-compatible object storage. Data resides in GDPR-compliant, certified EU data centers; Object Lock and versioning protect against ransomware. Transparent pricing with no egress or API fees. Perfect for backup, archive, and disaster recovery.

Impossible Cloud is your European alternative for S3-compatible object storage. Data resides in GDPR-compliant, certified EU data centers; Object Lock and versioning protect against ransomware. Transparent pricing with no egress or API fees. Perfect for backup, archive, and disaster recovery.