Which S3 storage solution should you choose for your business?

You’re reading this article because you’re likely searching for an S3 storage solution that fits your business needs. Whether you’re navigating Amazon S3, evaluating object storage providers, or aiming to optimize your cloud infrastructure for data availability, cost, and compliance, you’re in the right place.

If you’re looking to understand the technical workings of object storage, we recommend checking out this detailed post: https://www.leviia.com/en/blog/object-storage/

Still here? That means your goal is to identify the most relevant S3-compatible offer for your business. Key factors to consider include:

• Cost and cost optimization

• Security and compliance

• Compatibility with cloud-native applications

• Support for backup and archival use cases

• Scalability and durability for long-term growth

We wrote this article because we believe Leviia’s 100% French object storage solution, Leviia Object Storage, deserves your attention. It meets enterprise requirements for data management features, while remaining sovereign, secure, and transparent.

1. You’ve found the best price for your S3 storage

It’s critical to understand that S3 storage offerings vary widely between providers. Take Amazon S3 as an example: despite its apparent versatility and numerous storage classes, costs can add up significantly, especially when managing large data volumes. With prices up to four times lower than Amazon’s, Leviia Object Storage enables businesses and organizations to achieve substantial savings.

Compared to newer market players like Wasabi, Leviia also offers competitive pricing. Our promise is to provide high-quality object storage without the hidden or additional fees often associated with traditional S3 storage solutions. This includes avoiding unpredictable costs from S3 Intelligent-Tiering or S3 Glacier cold storage tiers. We’ve created a pricing comparison chart on our website, and below you’ll find a simulation for 300TB with 25% egress fees.

2. You ensure cost predictability for your S3 storage

In an era where controlling IT expenses is paramount, the ability to anticipate and plan data storage budgets is a strategic advantage. By emphasizing cost optimization and budget control, Leviia Object Storage doesn’t just reduce expenses—it rethinks the approach to cloud-native applications and consumption. Leviia addresses a well-known issue for IT departments: the opacity and complexity often tied to AWS service pricing.

Arnaud Méauzoone, our co-founder, explains: “We listened to the needs of CIOs and CFOs and designed our offering to be synonymous with simplicity and transparency. Our pricing structure is free of complexity, and our clients appreciate being able to understand and predict their costs without needing an expert or jumping through hoops.”

Our pricing is crystal clear: a fixed price per terabyte stored, transparently displayed, with no additional costs for ingress, egress, or API integrations. This pricing transparency eliminates surprises and allows businesses to align with S3 lifecycle policies and annual forecasts more easily.

3. You choose high-level security for your S3 storage

Security and S3 storage are increasingly intertwined in IT strategies. Cyberattacks are on the rise and remain at a “high” level in France, according to the latest annual report from ANSSI (National Agency for Information Systems Security). Paradoxically, IT departments face intense pressure to control rising costs in this context.

CIOs have two main options:

• Invest heavily in security compliance infrastructure to counter increasingly sophisticated attacks, such as social phishing.
• Or invest in a robust backup and archival strategies aligned with disaster recovery needs to ensure business continuity after an attack.

By integrating with backup solutions like Veeam or Atempo, object storage providers like Leviia align with the 3+2+1+1 methodology.

Investing in data backups is becoming a leading protection strategy for many businesses and organizations. Instead of pouring resources into ever-evolving, high-end security infrastructure, companies can focus on implementing robust backup systems. By integrating with backup solutions like Veeam, Rubrik, Commvault, Iperius, Nakivo, or Atempo, S3 storage providers like Leviia Object Storage address these challenges effectively, aligning with the 3+2+1+1 backup methodology.

To enhance the security of your backups and protect against ransomware, Leviia ensures cross-region replication across two French geographically distant data centers. Our S3 storage includes all the necessary security features:

• Versioning support: Easily revert to a previous file version at any time, a valuable feature for preventing data loss or correcting errors.
• Object Locking in S3: Protects objects from deletion for a set period, ideal for meeting regulatory requirements and safeguarding against accidental or malicious deletions.
• 2FA Protection: Strengthens permissions and access control, secures access to your files and systems by requiring two forms of identity verification.

Leviia Object Storage is certified ISO 27001 and HDS, ensuring data encryption, security compliance, and business continuity through disaster recovery.

• HDS Certification ensures compliance with strict health data security standards, protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access, leaks, or loss, and adhering to regulations like GDPR and French health data protection laws.
• ISO 27001 Certification guarantees robust policies and processes to identify, assess, and manage information security risks, reducing the likelihood of security incidents and ensuring business continuity through disaster recovery measures.

4. You protect your data privacy

Data sovereignty is a critical strategic issue for public administrations and private companies, especially those in France or handling sensitive European data. Adopting storage services that ensure data governance and protection compliant with local regulations is essential. Leviia Object Storage is a robust solution for this requirement, offering full alignment with European data management features and regulatory frameworks like the GDPR.

We guarantee that our clients’ data remains under European jurisdiction, offering protection against extraterritorial laws that could compromise data privacy or data availability. “Our clients, businesses, municipalities, metropolitan areas, and communities—are thrilled to have found us because we offer a sovereign and cost-effective alternative to U.S. giants like Amazon S3”, says Arnaud Méauzoone.

U.S.-based services such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, or other AWS solutions cannot guarantee true data privacy. As American companies, they are subject to the U.S. CLOUD Act, which may require them to disclose European clients’ data to U.S. authorities upon request—even if the data is hosted in Europe. A lesser-known but equally concerning issue is Section 702 of the FISA law, which authorizes the collection of non-U.S. citizens’ data outside the U.S. without a court order. This controversial provision was exposed during the Snowden revelations and remains a major challenge for organizations seeking secure and compliant cloud infrastructure.

5. You choose an S3 storage solution interoperable with all your tools

Interoperability is a critical challenge for IT infrastructure, enabling seamless and efficient integration of various solutions and services. Leviia is committed to this by offering S3 storage that meets industry standards and is designed to work seamlessly with a wide range of data management software and applications.

We understand that our clients use diverse tools to manage critical data. That’s why our S3 storage is fully compatible with industry leaders like Veeam for backup and recovery, Synology for NAS solutions, and Rubrik, Atempo, Commvault, Iperius, or Nakivo for backup and archival purposes.

This extensive compatibility means you can easily integrate Leviia into your technical ecosystem without costly modifications or complex reconfiguration. Whether you’re looking to expand storage capacity, optimize data retrieval, or secure user-generated content, our solution integrates effortlessly. Leviia is also well-suited to data lakes and automated workflows, providing the flexibility needed for evolving infrastructure needs.

Additionally, interoperability with these solutions allows Leviia to support a wide range of use cases. Our technical support team is available to help configure and optimize interactions with these solutions, ensuring a smooth transition and optimal performance.

To further support operational efficiency, Leviia’s console is fully compatible with multi-part upload methods, enables advanced object tagging, and supports S3 Access Points for simplified permissions and access control.

6. You simplify your life with an easy-to-use S3 storage solution

Ease of use has become a defining criterion for online storage services. Leviia has developed an S3 console that stands out for its clarity and user-friendliness. Recognizing that complexity can be a significant barrier, especially when managing large data volumes and S3 buckets, we designed our interface with clients to be intuitive, streamlined, and accessible, even for non-technical users.

A simple console doesn’t mean fewer features but better accessibility to them. Leviia’s S3 console, which you can try for free for 15 days, allows users to create, manage, and monitor buckets or configure Object Locking in S3 without navigating complex menus or deciphering obscure terminology. You can also define S3 lifecycle policies, enable S3 Block Public Access, and manage metadata management and object tagging directly from the dashboard.

Leviia’s intuitive console is designed for usability. Behind its simplicity lies a rich ecosystem that supports advanced automated workflows:

• Configure buckets with S3 Block Public Access

• Apply metadata management and object tagging easily

• Activate Object Locking in S3 in one click

• Enable alerts via S3 events or define expiration with S3 lifecycle policies

This simplicity saves time and energy, allowing users to focus on their core business.

A well-designed user interface isn’t just about operational efficiency, it’s also critical for security. A clear interface reduces the risk of human error, which is often the primary cause of data management security breaches. Leviia ensures that permissions and access control are intuitive, and that data governance policies can be applied consistently and reliably. This also contributes to stronger security compliance by ensuring teams can enforce the right policies without technical friction.

7. You benefit from accessible and responsive customer support

A carefully crafted user interface is vital not only for operational efficiency but also for security. A clear interface minimizes human error, a leading cause of data management security issues. Leviia ensures that security settings are easy to enable, and that data governance policies can be applied consistently and reliably, contributing to strong security compliance.

But beyond the product itself, customer support is a key part of Leviia’s value. Our team is accessible and responsive, ensuring that clients receive fast and relevant assistance at every stage of their storage journey.

Whether you’re scaling infrastructure for big data analytics, deploying machine learning models, or managing high-performance computing environments, our experts support you in designing the right architecture. This guidance helps maximize performance while avoiding pitfalls related to misconfiguration or inefficient processes.

Our support isn’t just technical, it’s strategic. We help ensure that your content delivery pipelines, regulatory compliance requirements, and operational data flows remain smooth, secure, and auditable.

In summary, Leviia’s S3 console and support ecosystem are the result of careful consideration of the full user experience, ensuring that data management remains as simple and fluid as possible, without compromising on power or support.

Why Leviia is the smartest S3 storage choice for your business

Leviia is more than a storage provider. It’s a sovereign, cost-efficient, and reliable alternative to Amazon S3, adapted to the needs of businesses operating in a complex regulatory environment. With unmatched scalability and durability, it meets the highest standards for long-term performance and resilience across critical infrastructures.

Looking for an S3 solution that combines control, transparency, and resilience? Start your 15-day trial today.