DigitalOcean launches space storage at its Bengaluru data center

Hyderabad: New York-headquartered software and cloud service provider, DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc announced the launch of scalable data storage solution, DigitalOcean Spaces at its Bengaluru data center. The price starts at $5 per month, including 250 GB of storage and 1 TB of bandwidth. Additional storage is available at a rate of two cents per GB. Spaces can be utilised for a range of applications, including data analytics workflows, AI model training, log file storage, and video streaming.

The announcement of Spaces comes after the company announced the acquisition of Paperspace, a cloud infrastructure as a service provider for highly scalable applications leveraging graphics processing units (GPUs).

Kirthi Devleker, Senior Product Marketing Manager, DigitalOcean said, “We are constantly working on our storage offerings to address the ever-increasing needs of our customers. To further that commitment, we announce the availability of Spaces Object Storage in our Bengaluru, India, data center.”

Devleker further said that the Spaces Object Storage may also help small-to-medium-sized businesses with regulatory compliance. Many laws and regulations govern how data is collected, shared, and stored. An aspect of some of these regulations is that they prohibit storing data outside national boundaries. Using data centers in different geographies may be an important part of a company’s overall regulatory compliance strategy, he added.

Listing the benefits Develker said that Spaces is S3 compatible, performance for read and write operations is at a rate of 800 requests per second (RPS), built-in content delivery network with more than 45 PoP locations, and secure transfers with automatically HTTPS-encrypted data.