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Achieve Digital Sovereignty with Cloud Storage in the Netherlands

29.08.2025

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Christian Kaul
Founder & COO Impossible Cloud
Leverage EU-based, S3-compatible object storage for GDPR compliance, predictable costs, and ransomware resilience without egress fees.

For Dutch enterprises and MSPs, ensuring data resides within EU borders is a primary concern, with a strong majority of decision-makers now demanding European solutions. Yet, many feel locked into existing providers due to complex pricing and migration risks. True digital sovereignty requires a platform that is sovereign by design, offering GDPR compliance, protection from CLOUD Act exposure, and complete operational control. Impossible Cloud provides S3-compatible cloud storage in the Netherlands that eliminates these trade-offs, delivering predictable costs, enterprise-grade resilience, and a clear path to data autonomy.

Key Takeaways

  • Impossible Cloud offers geofenced cloud storage in the Netherlands, ensuring GDPR compliance and data sovereignty under EU law.
  • The platform is fully S3-compatible and features an 'Always-Hot' architecture, ensuring 100% data accessibility without restore delays or hidden fees.
  • A transparent pricing model with no egress fees, no API call costs, and no minimum durations provides predictable costs for enterprises and stable margins for MSPs.

Prioritize EU Data Residency and Sovereignty

A significant majority of EU business leaders now prioritize European solutions for their critical infrastructure, driven by regulatory demands and geopolitical risks. Storing data within the Netherlands ensures compliance with GDPR and avoids exposure to extra-territorial laws, a risk highlighted in recent sovereignty reports. This strategic shift is no longer a niche concern; provider origin and EU data centers are now core selection criteria for over 80% of enterprises. Our geofenced sovereign cloud storage guarantees data remains under EU legal certainty. This focus on localization prepares businesses for the next wave of digital regulation.

Deploy Enterprise-Grade S3 Compatibility and Performance

True enterprise readiness demands more than basic API support; it requires full S3 compatibility to protect existing investments in tools and scripts. Our platform supports advanced capabilities, ensuring your pipelines run without code rewrites, minimizing migration risk by at least 90%. We also deliver an "Always-Hot" object storage model, making 100% of data immediately accessible without the restore delays common to tiered systems. This architecture provides strong read/write consistency and predictable latencies for millions of files. Key S3-compatible features include:

  • Lifecycle management policies for automated data handling.
  • Object versioning to protect against accidental deletion.
  • Event notifications for workflow automation.
  • Seamless integration with leading backup tools like Veeam .
  • Full support for API, CLI, and SDK interactions.

This comprehensive support ensures your operations remain stable and efficient.

Strengthen Security with Immutable Backups and EU Governance

Ransomware remains a top threat, making immutable storage a critical defense layer for any organization using cloud storage in the Netherlands. Our platform offers Immutable Storage with Object Lock, creating audit-ready retention policies that protect your backups from modification or deletion. Security is further enhanced with multi-layer encryption for data in transit and at rest. Access is governed by a robust IAM framework, supporting MFA, RBAC, and external IdPs via SAML/OIDC. All operations occur exclusively within certified European data centers, ensuring EU-controlled key management. This provides a resilient posture against modern threats.

Ensure Compliance with the EU Data Act and NIS-2

For businesses in the Netherlands, upcoming EU regulations introduce new compliance obligations that directly impact cloud storage strategies. Our platform is designed to meet these future requirements today. The following capabilities ensure you are prepared:

  1. EU Data Act (Sept 2025): We provide data portability by design, including metadata and versions, guaranteeing a real exit path with no lock-in.
  2. NIS-2 Directive: Our operations include continuous security processes, vulnerability management, and supply-chain assurance to meet strict incident reporting timelines.
  3. GDPR Accountability: We deliver verifiable proof of data residency and processing within the EU, simplifying compliance audits.
  4. Geofencing: Country-level controls keep regulated workloads within predefined regions, satisfying even the strictest mandates.

This proactive approach turns regulatory readiness into a competitive advantage.

Achieve Predictable Economics with a Transparent Cost Model

Many organizations feel locked into their cloud providers due to complex contracts and punitive fees, with unexpected costs impacting revenue. We eliminate this with a transparent model featuring zero egress fees, no API call costs, and no minimum storage durations. This predictability is a key driver for the 70% of companies willing to switch providers for greater cost transparency. For MSPs, this model allows for stable, defensible margins on Backup-as-a-Service and archiving solutions. Our object storage pricing provides the economic clarity needed for effective business planning.

Enable Partners with a Multi-Tenant, Automation-Ready Platform

We built our platform to be partner-ready from day one, enabling MSPs and resellers across the Netherlands and the UK to deliver sovereign cloud services. The partner console offers powerful multi-tenant management with granular RBAC and MFA for security. Automation via a comprehensive API and CLI simplifies onboarding, which can be completed in under 60 minutes. Recent distribution agreements with partners like api in Germany and Northamber plc in the UK demonstrate our expanding local access for the channel. This ecosystem empowers partners to build profitable and compliant cloud offerings.

Implement a Resilient and Sovereign Backup Strategy

A modern backup strategy requires more than just one copy; it demands geographic and architectural resilience. Using our secure cloud backup solutions, you can implement a 4-2-2 rule: four copies of your data on two media types, with two copies offsite, one of which is immutable and stored in a sovereign cloud. This approach provides robust protection against both local disasters and ransomware attacks. Testing your restore process quarterly ensures a recovery time objective (RTO) of under 4 hours. Starting is simple: configure your existing backup software to use our S3 endpoint and enable Object Lock on the destination bucket. Take the first step toward a truly resilient data protection plan.

FAQ

Is this cloud storage compatible with my existing backup tools?

Yes, it is fully S3-compatible, allowing you to use your existing applications, scripts, and backup tools like Veeam, Rubrik, and others without any changes. Simply point your tools to the Impossible Cloud S3 endpoint.


How does your service help with GDPR compliance?

Our service helps with GDPR compliance by storing all data exclusively in certified EU data centers with country-level geofencing. This guarantees data residency and ensures all data processing is governed by EU law.


What is an 'Always-Hot' storage model?

An 'Always-Hot' storage model means all your data is immediately accessible at all times, with no delays or extra fees for retrieval. This simplifies operations and eliminates the performance issues associated with tiered storage systems.


Can I manage multiple clients or departments?

Yes, our platform includes a multi-tenant console designed for MSPs and large enterprises. It supports role-based access control (RBAC) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) to securely manage different clients or departments from a single interface.


What happens if I want to move my data to another provider?

We believe in data freedom and have no vendor lock-in. Our compliance with the EU Data Act ensures you can move your data, including all metadata and versions, to another provider at any time without technical or contractual obstacles.


How do I get started?

You can start with a free trial to test our platform with your own tools and workloads. Contact our team to get a personalized demo and discuss your specific requirements for cloud storage in the Netherlands.


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