Affordable cold storage for infrequently accessed data

Spaces offer cold storage for $0.007/GiB per month. This includes retrieval of all cold data stored in a bucket up to once per month at no additional cost. The S3-compatible, low-cost bucket is ideal for petabyte-scale, infrequently accessed datasets requiring instant retrieval and a minimum 30-day retention.

Designed for applications requiring high requests per second (RPS), Spaces ensures high read and write operations performance, maxing out at 1500 RPS per client IP address, and is simple to use.

Use the large existing ecosystem of S3 tools, utilities, plugins, extensions, and libraries to manage your Spaces Object Storage easily.

Our built-in CDN can reduce web page load times, improve performance, and reduce bandwidth and infrastructure costs by caching assets across 200+ geographically distributed servers.

Reliably store large datasets required for big data analytics and train AI/machine learning models. Deliver static web assets such as images, JavaScript, CSS, videos, text, and time-series data.

Object storage plus a CDN enables video streaming applications to serve engaging experiences while preventing buffering or stream crashes by caching media on the local CDN server to speed up requests.

Object storage with a CDN allows faster and more reliable file sharing and downloads of software libraries and containers, regardless of size.

Archive backup and log files with capacity that automatically scales to store multiple files of any size easily—and you only pay for what you use.

Track access, support security & compliance requirements, and analyze usage with detailed access logs for your private and CDN-served public content.

Quickly configure the AWS CLI and other S3-compatible tools to simplify management of your Spaces buckets and automate data transfers.

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DigitalOcean Spaces is an object storage service that provides a simple and scalable way to store and serve large amounts of unstructured data. It's a

highly available, S3-compatible service designed for storing things like images, videos, backups, and static website assets. Spaces includes a built-in CDN to speed up content delivery.

Spaces can be used for a wide range of use cases, from hosting static websites and delivering video streams to archiving backups and storing large datasets for AI/ML training. Its S3 compatibility ensures easy data migration and seamless integration with a vast ecosystem of tools. DigitalOcean also provides robust and

up-to-date documentation

for using and scaling with Spaces.

Yes, every Space includes a

built-in CDN

at no extra cost. This helps improve the performance of your applications by caching and delivering content from a location closer to your users, reducing latency. This helps your organization maintain user satisfaction even as your operations grow.

Spaces is an object storage service ideal for unstructured data and static assets, and it's accessed via an API over the internet. Block Storage provides a traditional block-level storage volume that can be attached to a

Droplet, functioning like a local hard drive. Use Spaces for scalable, global access to files and Block Storage for high-performance, persistent storage for your databases or Droplets.

Common use cases for Spaces include hosting static websites, storing and serving user-uploaded content, and creating backups of your applications and databases. It's also frequently used as a data lake for analytics and a repository for large files needed by other services.