Object Storage

Object storage that doesn't punish you for downloading your own files.

S3-compatible buckets at $4/TB-month with 11 nines durability and free egress to HostEngine compute and CDN. Multipart, lifecycle, Object Lock, KMS — all included.

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  • Free migrations
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video-archive
s3://video-archive · sjc1 · v2 lock
Hot
4.18 TB
182k objects
$16.72
this month
112 GB/s
peak read
customer-backups
s3://customer-backups · object-lock 30d
Warm
112 TB
3 regions
$268.80
this month
31s
latest replication
audit-logs-2024
s3://audit-logs-2024 · KMS · compliance
Cold
38 TB
7y retention
$37.62
this month
11 nines
durability
$4 / TB
Storage at rest, per month
11 nines
Durability across regions
Free egress
to HostEngine compute & CDN
S3 API
Drop-in for any S3 client
Compatibility

Drop-in for any S3 SDK or tool.

Boto3, aws-sdk-js, awscli, rclone, Cyberduck, Veeam, Restic, Synology — they all already work. Change the endpoint, keep your code.

  • Signature V4 + presigned URLs
  • Multipart, lifecycle, versioning, ACLs, bucket policies
  • Object Lock with governance + compliance modes
# boto3 against HostEngine endpoint
import boto3
s3 = boto3.client(
  "s3",
  endpoint_url="https://s3.sjc1.hostengine.dev",
  region_name="sjc1",
)
s3.upload_file("render.mp4", "video-archive", "r/render.mp4")
# everything else is just s3
url = s3.generate_presigned_url("get_object", ...)
Economics

$4/TB. No, really, $4.

No tiered pricing trickery, no per-region surcharge, no surprise minimum-retention fee on the hot tier. The dashboard shows your projected bill on every PUT.

  • Hot tier: $4/TB-month, no per-request minimum
  • Warm tier: $2.40/TB-month, auto-promote on access
  • Cold tier: $0.99/TB-month with 4-hour restore
Storage cost · 100 TB · 30 days
HostEngine Hot $400
HostEngine Cold $99
Hyperscaler Standard $2300
Legacy SAN $1850
Save up to $1,901 / 100 TB / month versus a hyperscaler.
Durability

11 nines, with paperwork to prove it.

We replicate every object across three independent storage domains in different fault zones. Quarterly third-party audits validate the durability math.

  • 3-way erasure coding with quarterly proof reports
  • Cross-region replication for an extra $0.50/TB
  • Versioning + Object Lock for ransomware protection
zone-1 zone-2 zone-3 3-way replication · 99.999999999%
Plans

Three tiers, one S3 API.

Hot

General-purpose buckets for live workloads.

$4 /TB / mo
  • S3-compatible · Sigv4
  • Object versioning
  • Lifecycle rules + cold tiering
  • Free egress to HostEngine compute
  • $0.005 / 10k Class-A requests
Start with Hot
Warm
Most popular

Backups, archives accessed weekly.

$2.40 /TB / mo
  • 50ms first-byte SLA
  • Same S3 API, no separate tooling
  • Auto-promotion on access pattern
  • Cross-region replication, $0.50/TB
  • $0.010 / 10k requests
Start with Warm
Cold

Compliance archives, video originals.

$0.99 /TB / mo
  • Restore in 4 – 12 hours
  • 11 nines durability across 3 regions
  • Free 3-month minimum retention
  • Encrypted at rest with KMS keys you own
  • $0.020 / 10k requests
Start with Cold

No data-transfer surcharge between HostEngine products. Internet egress capped at 5x storage spend per month.

Who it's for

When the bandwidth bill is bigger than the storage bill.

Video platform

Stores 4 PB of source originals

Migrated from a hyperscaler at $23/TB. Total monthly storage bill dropped from $92,000 to $9,840 with zero changes to their existing s3cmd pipelines.

Backup-as-a-Service vendor

200k client backups nightly

Object Lock keeps backups immutable for 30 days. Cross-region replication adds DR for $0.50/TB extra. Their per-customer COGS fell 38%.

Game studio

Distributes 60 GB game patches

Free egress to HostEngine CDN means a launch-day patch costs nothing in transfer. Last release served 4.2 PB to players for $0 of bandwidth.

Stack

Already works with the tools you ship.

Integrates with the stack you already use

  • AWS SDK
  • boto3
  • aws-cli
  • rclone
  • Cyberduck
  • Restic
  • Veeam
  • Synology
  • Duplicati
  • MinIO Client
  • Terraform
  • s3cmd
FAQ

Storage questions, plain English.

Is this really S3-compatible?
Yes — Signature V4, multipart upload, presigned URLs, ACLs, bucket policies, lifecycle rules, versioning, Object Lock and SSE-KMS all work the same. Just change the endpoint URL.
How is egress free?
Reads going out to other HostEngine products (compute, CDN, app platform) cost nothing. Egress to the public internet from object storage starts at $0.008/GB and is capped at 5x the storage spend per month.
What about Object Lock?
Yes — governance and compliance modes both supported, with retention up to 100 years. Useful for ransomware protection on backups.
Can I bring my own encryption keys?
Yes — SSE-S3 (we manage), SSE-KMS (HostEngine KMS) or SSE-C (you supply). KMS keys can be HSM-backed on enterprise plans.
How fast is multipart upload?
Single-bucket aggregate is rate-capped at 250 GB/s. Per-connection we hit 1.4 GB/s on a tuned client. PUT latency P99 is ~120 ms.
Is there a region distance limit on cross-region replication?
No — replicate from any region to any region. Cross-region replication is billed at $0.50 per TB per replicated GB-month with no data-transfer surcharge.

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Northwind
Cobalt Studio
Volcrest
Northbeam AI
Halcyon
Acme Cloud
Pinepoint
Verdant
Helix Labs
Riverstone
Iron Forge
Beacon
Ready when you are

Stop paying twice for your own data.

Your first 100 GB are free, every region. Move buckets in, point your SDK, and watch your egress bill quietly disappear.

  • No credit card to start
  • Free migration from any provider
  • 99.99% uptime SLA, in writing
Frankfurt · 3 nodes · healthy
38ms p99
# spin up a 4 vCPU / 8 GB cloud VPS in 55s
$ hostengine vps create --plan "performance-4x8" --region "fra1"
✓ provisioned vps_2x9k1q  (172.247.18.42)
✓ image debian-12 ready · ssh keys attached
✓ snapshot policy: hourly · backups: 30 days

$ hostengine domain attach "trading.acme.io" --ssl
✓ DNS verified · Let's Encrypt cert issued in 6.4s
55s
median provision
14
global regions
$200
welcome credit