Cold Storage & Archival
Cold and archival storage is designed for infrequently accessed data where retrieval speed matters less than cost per gigabyte. Compliance-driven retention requirements — tax records, medical archives, legal hold — make this category relevant across European industries. Providers differ in minimum storage duration, retrieval latency tiers, and whether they charge egress fees on restore.
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Aruba Cloud
Ponte San Pietro
€0.005/GB/mo
GDPR
ISO 27001
Archive
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Contabo
Partner
Munich
€2.49/mo for 250GB
GDPR
Budget
Archival
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Hetzner
Gunzenhausen
€3.81/mo for 1TB
GDPR
Storage Box
Archival
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Impossible Cloud
Hamburg
€7.99/TB/mo
GDPR
Zero Egress Fees
Sovereign
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Infomaniak
Geneva
€0.002/GB/mo
GDPR
Swiss
Cold Storage
Green Energy
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Leaseweb
Amsterdam
€0.005/GB/mo
GDPR
ISO 27001
Dedicated
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OVHcloud
Roubaix
€0.002/GB/mo
GDPR
Cold Archive
OpenStack Swift
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Open Telekom Cloud
Bonn
€0.004/GB/mo
GDPR
ISO 27001
BSI C5
Archive
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STACKIT
Heilbronn
See website
GDPR
BSI C5
Sovereign
Archive
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Safespring
Solna
See website
GDPR
ISO 27001
Nordic
Archive
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Scaleway
Paris
€0.002/GB/mo
GDPR
Glacier-class
S3-Compatible
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Scality
Paris
Contact sales
GDPR
ISO 27001
Software-defined
Petabyte-scale