European WebDAV and S3 storage
Providers for WebDAV and S3 storage with data centres in Europe — as a backup or archive target for footage.one.
What matters
Before you book a provider, three things are worth checking:
- Protocol — footage.one speaks WebDAV and S3 (via the storage types AWS S3 and MinIO, for any S3-compatible provider). The provider needs to support one of the two.
- Data centre location — where do your files physically live?
- Company domicile — the point many people overlook: a US company is subject to the US CLOUD Act, even if the data sits in a European data centre. Authorities can request access to that data regardless of where the data centre is located.
Every entry below has been checked against the provider's own documentation. Only what could be clearly confirmed there is included.
Providers with WebDAV
| Provider/product | Data centre | Company domicile | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hetzner Storage Box | Nuremberg or Falkenstein (DE), alternatively Helsinki (FI) | Hetzner Online GmbH, Gunzenhausen (DE) | WebDAV, SFTP, SMB/CIFS and FTPS are supported, but each protocol must be enabled individually per Storage Box in the Hetzner Console. |
| IONOS HiDrive | Germany | IONOS SE, Montabaur (DE) | Native WebDAV support, with dedicated guides for Windows and Mac. |
| STRATO HiDrive | Germany (two high-security data centres) | STRATO GmbH, Berlin (DE) | WebDAV runs over port 443. STRATO also offers SFTP, FTPS, SMB, Rsync and SCP — not every protocol is included in every plan; some are add-ons. |
Providers with S3
| Provider/product | Data centre | Company domicile | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hetzner Object Storage | Nuremberg or Falkenstein (DE) | Hetzner Online GmbH, Gunzenhausen (DE) | S3-compatible. |
| IONOS Cloud Object Storage | Germany (incl. Frankfurt) | IONOS SE, Montabaur (DE) | S3. |
| STRATO HiDrive Objektspeicher | Germany (two high-security data centres) | STRATO GmbH, Berlin (DE) | S3-compatible via REST API / Amazon SDKs. |
| Scaleway Object Storage | Paris (FR), Amsterdam (NL) or Warsaw (PL) — depending on region | Scaleway SAS, Paris (FR), part of the Iliad Group | S3-compatible. |
| OVHcloud Object Storage | Incl. Gravelines/Strasbourg (FR), Frankfurt (DE), Warsaw (PL) | OVH Groupe SA, Roubaix (FR) | S3-compatible; storage classes and availability differ per region — check the specific region before booking. Non-European regions (e.g. London, Canada) are also available but not relevant here. |
| Infomaniak (Public Cloud / Swiss Backup, S3) | Geneva (CH) | Infomaniak Network SA, Geneva (CH) | S3-compatible, with limitations around multipart uploads while overwriting existing objects. Switzerland is not an EU member state, but a European company domicile without US CLOUD Act exposure. |
| Exoscale Simple Object Storage (SOS) | Geneva/Zurich (CH), Frankfurt/Munich (DE), Vienna (AT), Sofia (BG), Zagreb (HR) — data stays in the chosen zone | Akenes SA (Exoscale), Switzerland | S3-compatible. As with Infomaniak: Switzerland is not an EU member state, but a European company domicile without US CLOUD Act exposure. |
| Impossible Cloud | Frankfurt (DE), plus data centres in NL, PL, DK, FR and UK | Impossible Cloud GmbH, Hamburg (DE) | S3-compatible, with country-level geo-fencing of data. |
A note on cost: Egress fees (charges for downloading data) and minimum storage durations vary widely between providers and storage classes — both can add up for larger video archives. Check the current terms directly with the provider before booking.
Not domiciled in the EU
These providers run data centres in Europe but are domiciled as companies in the US. Technically, they connect to footage.one the same way as the providers above — the difference is the US CLOUD Act: under certain conditions, US authorities can request access to data controlled by a US company, regardless of which country the data physically sits in. We're listing them here rather than pretending they don't exist — what you make of it depends on your data-sovereignty requirements.
| Provider/product | Data centre (EU/UK) | Company domicile |
|---|---|---|
| Wasabi | Amsterdam (NL), Frankfurt (DE), Paris (FR), London (UK), Milan (IT) | Wasabi Technologies, Inc., Boston, MA (USA) |
| Backblaze B2 | Amsterdam (NL) — "EU Central" region | Backblaze, Inc., San Mateo, CA (USA) |
| Cloudflare R2 | EU jurisdiction bucket, pinned to data centres in EU member states | Cloudflare, Inc., San Francisco, CA (USA) |
For Cloudflare R2, the EU jurisdiction option technically prevents data from replicating outside the EU — it does not change the company's domicile, and therefore does not change whether the US CLOUD Act applies.
Further reading
- Set up NAS backup to S3 — connect a WebDAV NAS and an S3 target to footage.one together.
- Backup and archive — how footage.one distinguishes backup and archive storage.
As of: July 2026. Offers and locations change — verify the details with the provider before you book.