OVHcloud Local Zone Standard
- Free allowance
- No free tier: the Standard class in a Local Zone is billed from the first GiB at USD 0.00001111 per GiB-hour (about USD 0.0081103 per GiB-month), with no capacity cap stated
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 7.55/TB-monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented11 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | No free tier: the Standard class in a Local Zone is billed from the first GiB at USD 0.00001111 per GiB-hour (about USD 0.0081103 per GiB-month), with no capacity cap stated unit none; metered on none; billed per GiB-hour; the monthly figure is the hourly price x 730 hours |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 7.55 per TB per month (USD 0.0081103 per GiB-month x 931.32 GiB per TB); one rate at every volume |
| Limits |
Local Zones run a single availability zone: 99.9% availability SLA; multi-AZ, High Performance, server-side encryption at rest, user policies and the metadata API are not available there |
| Binding | none none: storage has no stated cap, an object may reach 48 TiB, and the per-bucket rates are soft defaults; the Local Zone feature gaps (no multi-AZ, no High Performance, no encryption at rest by the service, no user policies) are capability notes, not quotas |
| Identity | card an email address validated by a one-time code, the country of tax residence, and a valid payment method on the account before the first Public Cloud project |
| Egress | External ingoing and outgoing traffic, internal traffic, data retrieval and API requests are all free |
| Per-object cap | 48 TiB per object through multipart upload; 5 GiB through a single PUT (52776558133248 bytes) |
| Retention | unlimited volume and time: objects are kept until deleted, and no minimum storage duration is stated for the Local Zone Standard class |
| Interface | s3-compatible, rclone, cli S3-compatible API |
| Tooling | AWS CLI, rclone, s3cmd, any S3 SDK; lifecycle rules move objects between classes |
| Composes with | S3 origin behind a CDN or proxy; lifecycle rules move objects between this class and the Standard class |
| Reliability | 99.9% availability SLA in 1-AZ regions and Local Zones; MonoAZ only, with no multi-AZ in a Local Zone |
| Notes | only the Standard class is offered in a Local Zone; every access key of a project reaches every bucket in the Local Zones |
| Evidence note | documented documented: the international price list, the storage classes pages, the endpoints page and the technical limits page were read and quoted on 2026-11-03; a read timed from a bucket would make it measured |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 11
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-03 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/?currency=USD | the Local Zone Standard class costs USD 0.00001111 per GiB-hour, about USD 0.0081103 per GiB-month, with free traffic, retrieval and API requests |
| 2026-11-03 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/?currency=USD | Object Storage is invoiced per GiB-hour and the monthly figure assumes 730 hours |
| 2026-11-03 | www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/object-storage/classes/ | the availability SLA is 99.9% in 1-AZ regions and Local Zones |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | a Local Zone offers the Standard class only |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | Local Zones are single-AZ |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | Local Zones have no server-side encryption at rest, only customer-provided keys |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | the largest object is 48 TiB by multipart upload and 5 GiB by a single PUT |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | Object Storage bandwidth is 1 Gbps per connection, lifted by parallel requests |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | the default write rate is 300 requests per second on a bucket, a soft limit |
| 2026-11-03 | www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/free-trial/ | a valid payment method is required on the account before the first Public Cloud project |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/account-and-service-management/a | account creation validates the email address with a one-time code |