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In 2025, European IT leaders face a critical inflection point. While cloud adoption is standard, over 56% of organizations report overspending on cloud storage, with unpredictable egress and API fees causing significant budget challenges. Simultaneously, regulatory pressure is intensifying. New mandates like the EU Data Act and NIS-2 demand verifiable data sovereignty, robust security, and clear exit strategies—capabilities many traditional data object storage solutions struggle to provide. This article outlines a strategic approach to selecting an enterprise-ready object storage solution that delivers EU-centric compliance, ransomware resilience, and a transparent economic model, freeing your business from vendor lock-in.
Key Takeaways
- True digital sovereignty requires an EU-based and EU-governed cloud provider to eliminate risks from foreign laws like the CLOUD Act.
- Eliminating egress fees and API call charges is critical for achieving predictable cloud storage costs, as these fees can cause budget overruns of over 50% for European firms.
- Immutable storage with S3 Object Lock is a non-negotiable feature for modern ransomware protection, ensuring a clean and unalterable copy of backup data is always available for recovery.
Secure EU Data Sovereignty by Design
A strong majority of EU decision-makers now demand European solutions for critical data infrastructure. True data sovereignty goes beyond simple data residency; it ensures data is subject only to EU laws, avoiding exposure to foreign regulations like the CLOUD Act. Storing data with a non-EU provider, even in a European datacenter, creates significant legal ambiguity. An EU-native provider eliminates this risk entirely.
Our platform is sovereign by design, operated exclusively in certified European data centers. We offer country-level geofencing to guarantee data remains within a predefined region, satisfying even the strictest GDPR requirements for data transfers. This provides the legal certainty that 97% of businesses seek when moving beyond non-European cloud providers. This foundation of sovereignty prepares your architecture for the next wave of compliance challenges.
Gain Predictable Economics and Eliminate Vendor Lock-In
Unpredictable costs are a primary pain point for IT leaders, with 90% of European companies citing fee-related issues for budget overruns. The main culprits are egress fees and API call charges, which can account for up to 15% of a total cloud bill. We eliminate these entirely. Our pricing model is transparent and predictable by design.
You get enterprise-grade object storage with no egress fees, no API call costs, and no minimum storage durations. This model is especially valuable for MSPs and resellers, enabling predictable margins for Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) and archiving solutions. The upcoming EU Data Act, applicable from September 2025, mandates data portability, making our no-lock-in approach a built-in competitive advantage. This financial clarity allows for better strategic planning and resource allocation.
Leverage Advanced S3 Compatibility for Seamless Migration
True S3 compatibility is more than just basic object operations; it protects your existing investments in tools and skills. Developers leveraging fully compatible S3 APIs can reduce application development time by up to 25%. Our platform ensures your existing apps, scripts, and backup tools continue working without code rewrites. We support advanced capabilities like versioning, lifecycle management, and event notifications across the API, CLI, and SDKs.
This commitment to the S3 standard simplifies your cloud data migration. Follow these steps for a smooth transition:
- Audit Existing Tools: Confirm your backup software, archival scripts, and applications use the S3 API.
- Update Endpoints: Change the service endpoint in your tool configurations to point to our platform.
- Replicate Policies: Recreate your bucket policies, lifecycle rules, and IAM permissions in our console.
- Run Test Restores: Always perform a test restore of critical data to validate the new configuration before cutting over.
This seamless compatibility ensures your operations continue without disruption.
Deploy an 'Always-Hot' Architecture for Performance and Simplicity
Complex storage tiering often creates hidden costs and operational fragility. Restore delays, API timeouts, and unexpected retrieval fees are common when data is moved to colder tiers. Our architecture avoids this with an “Always-Hot” object storage model, ensuring all data is immediately accessible with predictable low latency. This approach reduces operational complexity by over 20% for many teams.
Every object is treated as tier-one data without the tier-one price tag. This model is ideal for mixed workloads, from hosting millions of small files to managing large archives for disaster recovery. It guarantees strong read/write consistency and keeps third-party tools stable, as they never have to wait for data to be restored from a deep archive. This architectural choice directly supports more resilient and auditable data management practices.
Achieve Resilient Ransomware Protection with Immutable Storage
Ransomware remains a top threat, making immutable backups a critical defense layer. An immutable backup, using features like S3 Object Lock, cannot be altered, encrypted, or deleted by anyone—including administrators—for a defined retention period. This write-once-read-many (WORM) functionality ensures a clean recovery copy is always available, even if primary systems are compromised.
Our secure object storage platform offers Immutable Storage with Object Lock out-of-the-box. This capability is essential for a modern 3-2-1 backup strategy and helps meet compliance mandates from regulations like GDPR, which require verifiable data integrity. By making your backup data tamper-proof, you create a reliable last line of defense against data destruction. This resilience is further enhanced by robust identity and access management.
Meet 2025 EU Regulatory Mandates Proactively
The European regulatory landscape is evolving, and your storage solution must keep pace. Two key regulations for 2025 are the EU Data Act and the NIS-2 Directive. The Data Act, effective September 2025, strengthens data portability and interoperability, aiming to prevent vendor lock-in—a principle already core to our transparent economic model.
The NIS-2 Directive requires entities in critical sectors to implement stringent cybersecurity measures, including supply-chain assurance and continuous security processes. Our platform helps you comply by providing:
- Verifiable EU Control: Data is stored and managed exclusively under EU law.
- Robust Security: Features include multi-layer encryption, IAM with MFA, and immutable storage.
- Supply-Chain Assurance: As a European provider, we simplify your supply-chain due diligence.
- Documented Processes: We provide the necessary documentation to support your compliance audits.
Choosing a compliant enterprise object storage provider is a direct competitive advantage.
Enable Your Partners with a Channel-Ready Platform
We built our platform to empower MSPs, resellers, and system integrators. The predictable, zero-egress-fee model allows partners to build BaaS and DR solutions with stable, defensible margins. Our partner-ready console simplifies multi-tenant management. It includes robust role-based access control (RBAC), MFA, and detailed reporting capabilities.
Automation is streamlined via our full API and CLI support, allowing for fast onboarding and integration into existing workflows. We are also expanding our reach to better serve local partners across Europe. Recent distribution agreements with api in Germany and Northamber plc in the UK provide resellers with local access and support. This growing ecosystem makes it easier than ever to deliver sovereign cloud services to your clients.
Take the Next Step Towards Sovereign Cloud Storage
Making the switch to a sovereign cloud provider addresses the most pressing challenges for European IT leaders today: cost predictability, regulatory compliance, and data control. With a fully S3-compatible API, migration is straightforward, protecting your existing technology investments while unlocking superior economics and security. Our architecture is built for consistency, availability, and scale, ensuring your data is always accessible and protected.
Ready to build a resilient, compliant, and cost-effective data strategy? Talk to one of our experts to discuss your use case or start a free trial to experience the performance and simplicity of our platform firsthand. Take control of your data's future today.
More Links
Wikipedia provides a comprehensive overview of Digital Sovereignty.
German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport offers insights into Digital Sovereignty from a government perspective.
German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action presents a publication focusing on digital sovereignty as part of its digital index initiative.
German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action provides a parliamentary inquiry related to digital sovereignty.
German Bundestag features a news item concerning digital sovereignty.
German Federal Government includes a speech by the Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and State Modernization on relevant topics.
German Informatics Society (GI) explores infrastructure investments for sovereignty in the context of future elections.
Association of German Magazine Publishers (VDZ) offers an article potentially discussing digital sovereignty within the media industry.
FAQ
What makes your object storage solution 'enterprise-ready'?
Our solution is enterprise-ready due to its full S3 API compatibility, 'Always-Hot' architecture for consistent performance, robust IAM with MFA/RBAC, immutable storage for ransomware protection, and exclusive operation in certified EU data centers to guarantee data sovereignty and GDPR compliance.
How does your platform support MSPs and channel partners?
We provide a partner-ready platform with a multi-tenant console, predictable margins thanks to our zero-egress-fee model, full automation via API/CLI, and a growing distribution network in Europe, including partners in Germany and the UK.
Is your storage solution compliant with the EU Data Act and NIS-2?
Yes. Our platform is designed for compliance. It aligns with the EU Data Act's data portability requirements by design and helps meet NIS-2's security mandates through EU-only data control, multi-layer encryption, and robust supply-chain assurance as a European provider.
What is 'Always-Hot' object storage?
An 'Always-Hot' model means all data is stored in a single, high-performance tier and is immediately accessible. This eliminates the delays, complexities, and surprise retrieval fees associated with traditional tiered storage systems, simplifying operations and ensuring predictable performance for all workloads.
How easy is it to migrate from a major hyperscaler?
Migration is designed to be simple. Thanks to our full S3 API compatibility, you can use your existing tools and scripts. The process typically involves updating the service endpoint in your configuration, replicating your policies, and testing the connection before switching over.
How does geofencing enhance data sovereignty?
Geofencing allows you to restrict your data to a specific country's datacenters. This provides an explicit, verifiable guarantee that your data will not leave a chosen jurisdiction, satisfying the strictest data residency and sovereignty requirements under regulations like GDPR.