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What is Storm Buckets?

Storm Buckets is S3-compatible object storage hosted entirely in Canada. You store files in buckets and reach them with standard S3 credentials, so any S3 app or library works without changes. Your data stays on Canadian hardware, under Canadian law.

There are two ways to drive it. Click around the dashboard, or point your own S3 tooling at it and never open the dashboard again. This page walks the dashboard path; Connecting S3 Tooling covers the other.

How your storage works

Your account comes with one storage pool. The Overview shows its size and how
much you have used, updated live.

Overview empty state showing the pool size and a Create your first bucket button

A few things to know:

  • Buckets are free and unlimited. Make as many as you want to organize your files.

  • Every bucket draws from the same pool, so your storage is shared across all of them.

  • The pool is a hard limit. When it is full, new uploads are rejected until you
    delete objects or expand your pool. No overage charge, no surprise bill.

Create your first bucket

From the Overview, click Create bucket.

Create Bucket dialog

  • Name: 3 to 50 characters, lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens.

  • Endpoint: where your bucket lives. During the alpha there is one, Alpha.

Wherever your bucket lives, S3 clients sign with region = storm.
The endpoint URL is what selects the node.
Copy-ready configs are in Connecting S3 Tooling, starting with rclone.

Click create and the bucket appears on your Overview.

Create more buckets

Already have a bucket? Use + New Bucket on the Overview to add another. Same
pool, same rules.

Your Buckets list with the plus New Bucket button

Access keys

Your tools reach a bucket with an access key, and there are two kinds.
A per-bucket key is the default: created in the dashboard, scoped to one bucket.
An account key goes further: set one up and drive your storage entirely without the dashboard, creating and managing buckets with familiar tools like the aws cli, terraform, and rclone.

Preview of Default Access Key on a new bucket

Next

You have a bucket. Two pages take it from here:

  • Managing Access Keys explains the two
    kinds of key, what each can do, and how to rotate and revoke them safely.
    Read this first.

  • Connecting S3 Tooling gives you the
    endpoint, region, and a config you can copy for aws cli, rclone, and more.