DigitalOcean launches developer-friendly object storage
Businesses are dealing with larger quantities of data than ever before, and this means an increase in the scale and complexity of storage required.
Developer cloud company DigitalOcean is launching a new storage product called Spaces which provides a scalable and cost-effective way to address complex storage needs within a developer-friendly and easy-to-use UI.
Developed in response to requests from DigitalOcean's developer community, Spaces is suited to hosting web assets, acting as the origin for CDNs, storing user-generated content such as images and large media files, archiving backups in the cloud and storing logs.
Developers can easily manage all of their data from the Spaces UI, it can be deployed fast with minimal configuration effort and multiple files can be uploaded to a Space with a drag-and-drop interface. Spaces works with many existing AWS S3 compatible tools. It is available to current DigitalOcean customers as part of the existing suite of products and services. Pricing starts at $5 for 250 GB of storage and one TB of outbound transfer. Additional storage is available for two cents per GB per month, and one cent per GB served out to the internet. Uploads to Spaces are free.
"Spaces is the most important product we've released since Droplet, the first SSD-based compute instance in the market," says DigitalOcean CEO Ben Uretsky. "DigitalOcean is becoming the developer's platform, providing storage, compute and networking capabilities to scale applications of any size. Despite the technical complexity of launching a product like this, we've worked incredibly hard to ensure Spaces maintains the same ease-of-use and effortless UI as our other products. We wanted to simplify the way developers can innovate so they can spend time building great software."
You can find out more about Spaces and sign up for a two-month free trial on the DigitalOcean website.
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