State of the art of Public Object Storage Europe

For the purpose of proactive Cloud market benchmark, Cloud Mercato tested performance of different Object Storage solutions present in Europe. We designed a test suite containing 5 scenarios, each displaying a facet of what an Object Storage can deliver.

Context

Providers

Any Cloud provider with facilities in Europe and owning Cloud Storage product usable with a HTTP interface is eligible for this project. Here's an exhaustive list of the different vendors:

• IONOS
• Amazon Web Services
• Backblaze
• BSO Network
• DigitalOcean
• Exoscale
• Google Cloud
• Hopla.cloud
• IBM Cloud
• Linode
• Microsoft Azure
• OVHcloud
• Oracle Cloud
• Orange Business Service
• Scaleway
• T-Systems Open Telekom Cloud
• UpCloud
• Wasabi Technologies

Test scenarii

Our analysis is composed by 5 kinds of tests made with os-benchmark, Apache benchmark and cURL.

• Document: Medium-sized simultaneous downloading
• Website: Small-sized simultaneous downloading
• cURL: HTTPS timing decomposition
• Big Data: Large files downloading
• Backup: Large files uploading