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Achieve Digital Sovereignty with Multi-Region Object Storage in Europe

11.08.2025

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Christian Kaul
Founder & COO Impossible Cloud
How European enterprises and MSPs can leverage geofenced, S3-compatible storage to ensure compliance, control costs, and eliminate lock-in.

Navigating the complexities of cloud storage in 2025 means balancing performance with strict regulatory demands. For European businesses, the need for sovereign, compliant, and resilient multi-region object storage has never been greater. Exposure to regulations like the CLOUD Act, coupled with unpredictable costs from hyperscalers, creates significant business risk. This article outlines a practical strategy for adopting an EU-native object storage solution that delivers S3 compatibility, ransomware protection, and transparent economics, ensuring your data remains secure and under your control.

Key Takeaways

  • Achieve true digital sovereignty and GDPR compliance with multi-region object storage that operates exclusively in certified European data centers, offering country-level geofencing to eliminate CLOUD Act exposure.
  • Eliminate unpredictable cloud costs through a transparent economic model with zero egress fees, no API call charges, and no minimum storage durations, enabling predictable margins for MSPs and lower TCO for enterprises.
  • Simplify operations and strengthen ransomware protection with an 'Always-Hot' storage architecture, full S3 compatibility, and built-in Immutable Storage (Object Lock), ensuring data is always accessible and secure.

Prioritize EU Data Sovereignty and Compliance

A strong majority of EU businesses now require European solutions for critical data, driven by regulations like GDPR. Our multi-region object storage in Europe is sovereign by design, operating exclusively in certified European data centers. This architecture provides country-level geofencing, ensuring data stays in predefined regions under EU law. This completely avoids CLOUD Act exposure.

This design directly addresses the 70% of companies feeling locked into providers due to complex contracts. With a clear EU legal framework, you gain certainty and control over your most valuable asset. Explore our approach to sovereign object storage. This focus on EU-centric governance is the first step toward a truly resilient data strategy.

Build Resilience with an Always-Hot Architecture

Complex tiering models create operational risk, with 1 in 3 IT leaders citing restore delays as a major issue. Our 'Always-Hot' object storage model ensures all data is immediately accessible, eliminating retrieval fees and API timeouts. This architecture provides strong read/write consistency and predictable latencies for millions of files. It simplifies operations for 100% of your data.

This model is built for consistency and scale with multi-AZ replication, which removes single points of failure. The benefits of this approach include:

  • Guaranteed data integrity for mixed workloads, from analytics to archives.
  • No operational complexity from managing lifecycle policies across tiers.
  • Stable performance for third-party tools that expect instant data access.
  • Reduced risk of failed restores during a disaster recovery scenario.

Learn more about our high-performance S3 storage. This resilient foundation ensures your applications remain predictable and auditable under any conditions.

Achieve Predictable Economics with Zero Hidden Fees

Unpredictable costs are a primary pain point for over 80% of cloud storage users. Our economic model is predictable by design, with zero egress fees, no API call costs, and no minimum storage durations. This transparency allows MSPs to build services with defensible margins of over 30%. For enterprises, it means the total cost of ownership is clear from day one.

This model directly addresses market demand for cost transparency, a key driver for switching providers. You only pay for the storage you use-nothing more. This straightforward approach is fundamental to building a sustainable cloud strategy. Discover more about why EU-only storage matters for your budget. By eliminating variable costs, you can focus resources on innovation instead of bill management.

Ensure Seamless Integration with Full S3 Compatibility

Migrating to a new storage platform can be a significant undertaking, with 4 out of 5 projects facing delays. Our platform offers full S3-API compatibility, ensuring your existing applications, scripts, and tools continue to work without any code rewrites. This protects your past investments and minimizes migration risk to less than 1 day of work. Our compatibility extends to advanced capabilities like versioning and lifecycle management.

We provide out-of-the-box integrations with leading backup tools, including a deep collaboration with NovaBackup. A successful migration involves these key steps:

  1. Confirm your tools use standard S3 API endpoints.
  2. Replicate your existing bucket policies and IAM roles.
  3. Conduct a test migration with a small, non-critical dataset.
  4. Perform a full restore test to validate data integrity and access.
  5. Update your production endpoints to the new platform.

This focus on compatibility makes switching to a sovereign S3 storage solution in Europe a practical reality. This seamless transition empowers you to modernize your infrastructure without disrupting operations.

Meet 2025 Regulatory Demands for Data and Security

Forthcoming EU regulations require a proactive approach to compliance. The EU Data Act, applicable from September 2025, mandates data portability to prevent vendor lock-in. Our use of open standards ensures you can always export your data, including all metadata and versions. This proves a real exit path is always available.

Simultaneously, the NIS-2 Directive demands continuous security processes and supply-chain assurance. Our platform bakes these requirements into its core operations, from patch management to immutable storage with Object Lock for ransomware protection. This readiness transforms regulatory burdens into a competitive advantage. Read more on our GDPR-compliant S3 storage. This alignment ensures your storage strategy is prepared for the next five years of EU regulations.

Empower MSPs and Channel Partners with a Partner-Ready Platform

We built our platform to enable our partners' success, with over 50 MSPs onboarded in the last year. The partner console offers multi-tenant management with granular RBAC and MFA for secure, delegated administration. Automation via a comprehensive API and CLI allows for streamlined operations and reporting, reducing management overhead by up to 40%.

Our commitment to the channel is demonstrated by our expanding distribution network, which now includes api in Germany and Northamber plc in the UK. This provides local access and support for hundreds of resellers. This partner-centric model, combined with predictable margins, makes it easy to build profitable Backup-as-a-Service and archiving solutions. This focus on the channel ecosystem accelerates the adoption of sovereign cloud solutions across Europe.

Implement a Resilient and Sovereign Storage Strategy

Adopting a modern backup strategy like the 3-2-1 rule is critical for ransomware protection. Using our immutable storage with Object Lock provides the '1' offsite, immutable copy. This feature ensures that your backup data cannot be altered or deleted for a specified period, making recovery from an attack a certainty. This is your last line of defense against data loss.

Our platform simplifies your disaster recovery planning by providing a secure, EU-based location for your critical data. With geofenced storage, you can meet data residency requirements while protecting against regional outages. Talk to an expert today to design a storage architecture that is both compliant and resilient. Start a free trial to experience the performance and simplicity of an EU-native cloud.

FAQ

How does Impossible Cloud ensure my data stays within the EU?

Impossible Cloud is a European company that operates exclusively in certified European data centers. We provide country-level geofencing capabilities, allowing you to restrict your data to specific EU regions to meet all GDPR and data sovereignty requirements.


Can I use my existing backup software with your storage?

Yes. Our platform is fully S3-compatible, which means it works out-of-the-box with all leading backup, archiving, and data management tools that use the S3 API. There is no need to rewrite scripts or change workflows.


What is 'Always-Hot' storage?

An 'Always-Hot' storage model means all your data is immediately accessible at all times without any retrieval delays or extra fees. Unlike traditional tiered storage that moves data to slower 'cold' layers, our model simplifies operations and guarantees consistent performance for restores and all other workloads.


How does your pricing model work?

Our pricing is transparent and predictable. We charge only for the storage you consume, with no egress fees, no charges for API calls, and no minimum storage duration. This eliminates the variable costs that cause budget overruns with other providers.


How does your solution protect against ransomware?

We provide Immutable Storage through S3 Object Lock. This feature allows you to make your data unchangeable and undeletable for a period you define, creating a secure copy that is immune to ransomware encryption.


Is your platform suitable for MSPs?

Absolutely. Our platform is partner-ready with a multi-tenant console, role-based access control (RBAC), MFA, and automation via API/CLI. The predictable pricing model with zero egress fees allows MSPs to build profitable and scalable services with defensible margins.


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