IDrive e2 is an S3-compatible hot cloud object storage service positioned as a low-cost alternative to Amazon S3, with no charges for egress under its free-egress policy or for API calls. It targets developers, businesses, and backup/archive and disaster-recovery use cases needing inexpensive, performant object storage. It offers 14 global regions for low-latency access plus cross-region replication, with a minimum billing increment of 1 TB. Its data centers are SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and it supports HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR requirements. Storage starts at roughly $5 per TB per month (or about $20 per TB per year on annual plans), with a standing 10 GB free tier.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2022
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Cloud infrastructure
- Starting price
- $5/mo
- Regions
- 14
- SLA uptime
- 99.9%
- Managed Kubernetes
- No
- Helm support
- No
- Free tier
- Yes
- Vendor lock-in
- Low
- Open standards
- Yes
- Easy data export
- Yes
- Multi-cloud friendly
- Yes
- Org size
- Midsize
- Support tier
- Standard
- Ease of use
- 4/5