The Dispatch

montreal-1 is open. Canadian cloud storage in Montreal at $9 CAD a terabyte, one flat bill every month, and downloads are never charged.

Every action the Storm Buckets dashboard can take now carries a gate you choose. Open, your password, an email code, your authenticator, or closed, set per action.

One-time transfer or a running schedule, both from any S3-compatible provider. What Storm keeps of your source key, how the restore test actually proves the copy is good, and the difference between the two.

The Storm Buckets file browser now points at any S3-compatible endpoint, not just ours. Where your key actually goes, what the demo bucket is for, and the CORS config you'll need before your own bucket works.

MinIO's community edition is archived. This is the actual migration to Garage: the rclone commands, the credential and region gotchas that look like deeper problems, and what silently doesn't come across.

A Microsoft executive told the French Senate, under oath, that it cannot stop US authorities from taking customer data held in Europe. The same is true for your data in Canada.

The surprise on an AWS S3 bill is almost never storage. It is egress, the charge to pull your own data out, and the Canadian AWS region costs more without buying sovereignty. The math, and a Canadian S3 alternative priced in flat blocks.

Getting Garage running is an afternoon. Running it so one bad day stays small is the part almost nobody writes about. Every hardening control, ranked S to F from live production, failures kept in.

Browse, search, preview, and upload your S3 bucket from the browser. The Storm Buckets file browser runs client-side, so your key never leaves your machine.

NorthTube's videos now upload, transcode, and play from Storm Buckets in Montreal. Moving a live PeerTube instance off Backblaze B2 took one rclone command and some configuration. Here is the config that matters if you want to do the same.

MinIO's community edition is archived. What actually changed, what it means if you run it, and the open-source S3 options still maintained in 2026.

Storm Buckets now serve static websites - same protocol, same file, same place. Object storage and static hosting have always been the same problem; here's what that looks like in practice.