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Object Storage

S3-compatible storage with zero egress fees — keep your tools, drop the bill.

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Overview

Fully S3-compatible object storage that works with the AWS-ecosystem tools your teams already use, with no re-architecting. Ingress and egress are free and unmetered, so the costs that surprise you on hyperscalers simply are not there.

What's included

Works with your existing S3 tools, unchanged
Free, unmetered ingress and egress
Transfer to your VMs is always free
No minimum commitment
Data stays in the region you select

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Why teams choose Object Storage

Storage at $0.024/GB per month in CAD on the data you store, plus $0.004 per 10,000 API requests. Ingress and egress are free and unmetered, with no minimum commitment.

Drop the egress bill, keep your tools

Fully S3-compatible storage works with your existing AWS-ecosystem tooling while ingress and egress stay free.

No re-architecting

Point your existing S3 SDKs, CLIs, and backup tools at ZCP and they work unchanged.

No minimum commitment

Pay only for what you store, with no minimum spend and no upfront commitment.

Your data stays in Canada

Objects live in the Canadian region you select, with data residency you control.

Object Storage features

Everything you need to build and scale.

S3-compatible API

Standard S3 calls work out of the box with your existing tools and SDKs.

Free, unmetered transfer

Ingress and egress are never metered, and transfer to your VMs is always free.

Capacity and performance tiers

Choose Ottawa HDD capacity storage or Montreal SSD performance storage to match your access pattern.

Billed on what you store

Storage costs $0.024/GB per month in CAD on the data you store. API requests cost $0.004 per 10,000.

Plan size sets maximum capacity

The size you pick in the portal sets the maximum capacity. Pick 1 TB and store 100 GB, and you pay for 100 GB.

Bucket and object management

Create buckets and manage objects from the portal or any S3-compatible client.

Regional data residency

Data stays in the Canadian region you select for the bucket.

How Object Storage compares

See why teams choose ZSoftly Cloud Platform.

Capability	Why it matters
Free, unmetered egress	Downloading your own data costs nothing, unlike per-gigabyte egress and retrieval fees on S3.
S3 compatibility	Keep the tools your teams already use, with no migration or re-architecting.
No minimum commitment	Pay only for what you store, with no floor and no upfront spend.
Transparent CAD pricing	Flat $0.024/GB per month with no request-tier traps or surprise retrieval charges.
Sovereign Canadian infrastructure	Objects sit on infrastructure ZSoftly owns in Canada, with data residency you control.

How teams use Object Storage

AI datasets and checkpoints

Keep raw and curated datasets, training checkpoints, evaluation output, and the source documents behind a RAG pipeline in the region you select, and move them with standard S3 clients.

AI and machine learning

Application uploads

Store tenant uploads, attachments, generated reports, and exports behind the S3 integration your application already uses, with no egress charge when customers download them.

SaaS and software

Long-term archive

Keep project archives, records, research data, and finished media for years. Storage is billed on the data you store, while ingress and egress are free and unmetered. Your retention policy sets how long each object stays.

Research and non-profit

Immutable backup

A versioned bucket with Object Lock enabled stores objects write-once-read-many, so you can add a locked, immutable copy to a 3-2-1 backup plan. Object Lock requires versioning, and object versions count toward your storage costs.

Create a bucket with Object Lock

Object Storage by industry

AI and machine learning SaaS and software Healthcare and life sciences Finance Insurance Media, streaming, and gaming Public sector Research Education

Use cases for Object Storage

Application assets, media, and user uploads
Backups and long-term archives
Data-lake and analytics source storage
Static website and content hosting
Build artifacts and container layers
Disaster-recovery copies kept in Canada

How Object Storage works

1
Create a bucket
In the portal, choose a Canadian region and a size. The size caps capacity. Billing follows the data you store.
2
Get your access keys
Generate S3 access and secret keys for the bucket.
3
Point your tools
Configure your existing S3 client or SDK with the ZCP endpoint and keys.
4
Upload your objects
Move data in over free, unmetered ingress.
5
Read and serve freely
Download and serve objects with no egress charges.

Get started with Object Storage

Launch in minutes, scale when ready.

Sign up and create a bucket in your Canadian region
Generate S3 access keys
Point your existing S3 tools at the ZCP endpoint
Store and serve data with no egress bill