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How UK Resellers Can Lead with Secure Object Storage Solutions

15.09.2025

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Christian Kaul

Founder & COO Impossible Cloud

15.09.2025

15.09.2025

9

Minutes

Christian Kaul

Founder & COO Impossible Cloud

For UK resellers, the demand for data control, ransomware protection, and cost predictability is surging. This article details how to deliver secure object storage solutions that meet these modern challenges, leveraging a sovereign-by-design European platform now available through UK distribution.

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UK resellers can meet growing demand for data sovereignty by offering secure object storage solutions based exclusively in EU data centers, ensuring GDPR compliance and avoiding CLOUD Act exposure.

A partner-first commercial model with zero egress fees, zero API call costs, and no minimum storage duration allows UK resellers to build predictable, defensible margins for BaaS and archiving services.

Full S3-API compatibility and features like Immutable Object Lock provide robust ransomware protection and seamless integration with existing backup tools, minimizing migration friction for clients.

UK enterprises and MSPs face a dual challenge: protecting data from escalating threats while navigating complex EU data regulations like GDPR. Many feel locked into cloud contracts with unpredictable fees, creating significant margin pressure for resellers. A secure, EU-based object storage solution offers a clear path forward. By prioritizing data sovereignty, immutable backups, and a zero-egress-fee model, UK resellers can offer a compelling alternative. This approach not only ensures compliance but also builds predictable revenue streams, directly addressing the market's most pressing needs with a technically robust and commercially sound strategy.

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Meet UK Demand with Sovereign, EU-Compliant Storage

A majority of EU decision-makers now demand European solutions for their critical data infrastructure. For UK businesses operating with EU data, GDPR compliance is not optional, with potential fines up to 4% of global turnover for non-compliance. Our platform addresses this directly by operating exclusively in certified European data centers, ensuring EU data residency.

This architecture provides a crucial advantage by avoiding CLOUD Act exposure, keeping all data under EU governance. We enable country-level geofencing, allowing resellers to guarantee clients their data will never leave a predefined region. This offers UK clients a level of EU legal certainty that is now a top selection criterion.

With the EU's Cloud and AI Development Act aiming to triple data processing capacity by 2030, the push for sovereign solutions is accelerating. Offering a truly sovereign storage solution prepares your portfolio for this next wave of regulation and client demand.

Deliver Robust Ransomware Protection and Resilience

Ransomware attacks require a modern, resilient defense, and immutable storage is a core component of that strategy. Our platform includes Immutable Storage with S3 Object Lock, making backups unchangeable for a set period. This provides an audit-ready retention policy that helps clients recover with 100% data integrity.

Our architecture eliminates single points of failure through multi-AZ replication, ensuring high availability. We also feature an "Always-Hot" object storage model, where all data is immediately accessible without any tier-restore delays of 5 hours or more. This simplifies operations for MSPs and avoids the hidden restore fees common with tiered models.

This approach is critical for meeting the stricter security requirements of regulations like NIS-2, which mandate robust business continuity and supply chain security. By providing these features, you can offer a superior GDPR-compliant storage solution that is resilient by design.

Build Predictable Margins with a Partner-First Model

The single biggest challenge for resellers offering cloud backup is unpredictable cost models from legacy providers. We eliminate this problem with a pricing structure designed for the channel. You get predictable margins because we charge zero egress fees, zero API call costs, and have no minimum storage durations.

This transparent economic model allows you to build defensible margins for Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) and archiving services. Our partner-ready console simplifies management with these key features:

  • Multi-tenant management with role-based access control (RBAC).

  • Identity and Access Management (IAM) with MFA support.

  • Full automation capabilities via API and CLI.

  • Simplified reporting for clear client billing.

Onboarding is fast, often taking less than 24 hours to get started. With our first UK distributor, Northamber plc, local access and support for UK resellers has never been easier. This makes it simple to add a UK channel partner storage solution to your offerings.

Ensure Seamless Integration with 100% S3 Compatibility

Client adoption depends on minimizing migration friction and protecting existing technology investments. Our platform offers full S3-API compatibility, ensuring that existing applications, scripts, and backup tools continue to work without any code rewrites. This compatibility extends beyond basic operations to include advanced capabilities.

We ensure consistent support for the following S3 features across our API, CLI, and SDKs:

  1. Object Versioning

  2. Lifecycle Management Policies

  3. Event Notifications

  4. Object Tagging

  5. Multi-part Upload

This deep compatibility ensures out-of-the-box integrations with leading backup tools, including our collaboration with NovaBackup. It protects your clients' past investments, which can represent up to 60% of their IT budget. This focus on open standards makes us an ideal choice for any reseller S3-compatible object storage strategy.

Exceed Enterprise Expectations for Governance and Security

Modern enterprises require granular control over data access and governance. Our solution provides identity-based IAM with role-driven policies and support for external Identity Providers via SAML/OIDC. This allows for secure, time-bounded access and the use of presigned URLs where needed, reducing the attack surface by over 50% compared to static credentials.

Compliance with upcoming regulations is baked into our operations, not an afterthought. We help you meet NIS-2 requirements, which mandate continuous security processes and supply-chain assurance for many UK businesses. Our EU-controlled key management and verified encryption provide the audit-ready security enterprises demand.

The intuitive console UX allows for managing buckets, permissions, and lifecycle rules without deep API expertise. This combination of powerful governance and ease of use makes it simple to deploy UK reseller data center solutions that are truly enterprise-ready.

Future-Proof Clients with a Clear Exit Strategy

Vendor lock-in is a primary concern for over 70% of IT leaders. The EU Data Act, with its provisions taking effect from September 2025, reinforces the right to data portability and interoperability. It mandates that users must be able to switch cloud providers without technical or contractual barriers, a principle we embrace by design.

Our commitment to open standards and the S3 API ensures a real exit path. Clients can preserve their negotiation power and long-term freedom, knowing their data, metadata, and versions are fully portable. This aligns perfectly with the Data Act's goal to make switching providers free of charge by 2027.

By offering a solution built on these principles, you provide a competitive advantage that addresses long-term strategic concerns. This positions you as a forward-thinking London S3 object storage reseller ready for the next five years of data regulation.

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FAQ

Is your object storage solution GDPR compliant?

Yes. Our platform is sovereign by design, operating exclusively in certified European data centers. This ensures data is governed by EU rules, providing a fully GDPR-compliant storage solution for UK resellers and their clients.



What makes your pricing model predictable for resellers?

Our pricing is predictable because we do not charge egress fees or API call fees, and there are no minimum storage durations. This transparent model allows resellers to forecast costs accurately and protect their margins on backup and archive services.



How does your solution protect against ransomware?

We provide robust ransomware protection through Immutable Storage with S3 Object Lock. This feature makes backup data unchangeable for a specified period, ensuring that a clean, uncorrupted copy is always available for recovery after an attack.



Can I use my existing backup software with your storage?

Absolutely. Our platform is fully S3-API compatible, which means it integrates seamlessly with all major backup and data management tools that use the S3 protocol. No changes to your existing workflows or scripts are needed.



How do you support your UK channel partners?

We support our UK partners through our distributor, Northamber plc, providing local access and expertise. Our partner-ready console includes multi-tenant management, automation tools (API/CLI), and simplified reporting to make onboarding and managing clients efficient.



What does 'Always-Hot' storage mean?

‘Always-Hot’ storage means all data is immediately accessible without the delays or retrieval fees associated with tiered storage (cold/archive tiers). This simplifies operations, ensures fast restores for third-party tools, and eliminates surprise costs.



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