Object storage without the catch.
S3-compatible storage, hosted and operated in Canada.
Your tools work unchanged, and the invoice is the same every month.
Safe to switch to.
Your tools already work.
Storm speaks S3. The AWS CLI, rclone, restic and Veeam take an endpoint and a key and run unchanged.
The bill does not move.
You pay for the blocks you hold. Past three times your capacity, downloads slow down. They are never billed.
You can always leave.
The engine is Garage, open source. Your data leaves over the same S3 API it arrived on, with no exit fee.
What people run on it.
Offsite backupsThe copy that survives a fire, ransomware or a dead server. Storm can pull it from your S3 provider on a schedule.
Backups
Application storageUploads, exports and media, through the S3 SDK your app already uses. No code change.
Applications
Static websitesA site served straight from a bucket. Hosting comes with the storage block.
Storm Sites
Getting your data in.
From another provider
Give the Import tool an endpoint and a key. The copy runs on Storm's side, not over your connection.
From your own disks
Use the tools already on the box. Nothing Storm-specific to install.
A copy that keeps up
Backup copies what changed on your schedule, and tells you when a run fails.
One block size. An invoice you can forecast.
One terabyte costs $9 CAD a month on montreal-1. There is no metered plan, so nothing on the invoice can surprise you.
- Requests are open now on montreal-1
- Pay the invoice by Interac e-Transfer
- Uploads and API requests are included
- Static site hosting comes with the block, with Storm Sites
1 TB of capacity. Add more in 1 TB blocks.
- ✓ Stack blocks as you grow
- ✓ Buckets and keys are not billed units
- ✓ Custom domains + static hosting
- ✓ Audit logs
The alpha endpoint is separate from montreal-1, and its capacity is a grant that is never billed. One account can hold an alpha grant there and paid blocks on montreal-1.
A block is capacity for your own data, applications, and sites. The Acceptable Use Policy sets the boundary, and abuse reports are acknowledged within 48 hours.
See for yourself.
Every building, named.
The server provider, the data centre and who owns each, dated and sourced.
Uptime we measure.
A probe checks every paid endpoint each minute, and every outage is dated.
Code you can read.
Garage stores your data and Storm Pulse runs the servers. Both are open source, and our fixes go upstream.
Questions people ask.
Is Storm Buckets actually S3-compatible?
Yes. Storage runs on Garage, an open-source S3 engine, so the AWS CLI, rclone, boto3 and s3cmd work unchanged. Garage publishes its S3 compatibility matrix, so you can check before you move.
Where does my data physically live?
In a Montreal data centre, run by Storm, a Canadian company with no US parent. Your files stay under Law 25 and PIPEDA. The montreal-1 page names every company behind the building.
How does egress work?
Each month you can download three times the capacity you hold. Past that, downloads slow down. They are never billed, so there is no transfer line on the invoice.
How durable is it?
montreal-1 keeps your data on RAIDZ3 disks, so three can fail at once and nothing is lost. It is not yet copied to a second site, so keep Storm as one leg of your 3-2-1 backup, not your only copy.
How do I get my data back out?
The same way it went in. Point rclone or the AWS CLI at the bucket and a destination. Standard S3, no proprietary format, no exit fee.
How do I pay?
You request the blocks you need, we send an invoice, and you pay it by Interac e-Transfer. It is priced in CAD, so the exchange rate never moves it.