Spaces Features

Object Storage

DigitalOcean Spaces provides S3-compatible object storage that lets you store and serve large amounts of unstructured data. You can create a Space in seconds and start using it immediately with no additional configuration. All data transfers are secured with HTTPS, and storage capacity scales seamlessly.

Spaces buckets are ideal for storing static assets like images, audio, video, and backups. Because Spaces provides object storage, it’s best suited for large, unstructured data rather than databases or transactional workloads. For those use cases, use block storage or local Droplet storage instead.

If you serve static or dynamic content through Spaces, you can enable the built-in Content Delivery Network (CDN) at no additional cost. The CDN caches your assets across multiple global servers to reduce latency, speed up page loads, and lower bandwidth costs.

Unique URLs

A Spaces subscription lets you create multiple buckets to organize and segment content.

Each bucket has its own unique URL, for example:

spacename.region.digitaloceanspaces.com
region.digitaloceanspaces.com/spacename

Replace spacename with your Space’s name and region with the region where it’s hosted.

High Availability

Spaces runs on Ceph, which provides redundancy and fault tolerance to protect your data from hardware failures. For more details on our Ceph architecture and why we selected it, see our blog post on why we chose Ceph.

Ceph is compatible with a large subset of the S3 RESTful API, so you can use many S3 tools and SDKs with Spaces.

Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Spaces includes an optional built-in CDN, a globally distributed network of edge servers that cache and deliver content from locations closest to your users. The CDN helps reduce latency, improve load times, and lower bandwidth costs for frequently accessed assets.

When the CDN is enabled, your bucket’s contents are available through the edge URL instead of the origin URL, for example:

<spacename>.<region>.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com

If your origin bucket becomes temporarily unavailable, cached content from an edge location (also called a point of presence, or PoP) can still be served to users.

You can control caching behavior with TTL settings for all objects or individual files. You can also purge cached content at any time. Each unique URL, including query strings, is treated as a separate cached asset.

If you prefer to use your own subdomain instead of the default edge URL, you can set up a custom CDN endpoint, such as images.example.com. Custom subdomains require an SSL certificate. If your domain is managed in DigitalOcean, Let’s Encrypt certificates are issued and renewed automatically every 60 days. You can also upload your own certificate if you use another DNS provider.

The Spaces CDN is available in all regions where Spaces is supported. For a list of CDN points of presence (PoPs), see the Spaces Content Delivery Network section.

Spaces Cold Storage

Spaces Cold Storage provides low-cost, long-term object storage for infrequently accessed data, offering the same durability as Spaces Standard Storage with lower retrieval throughput and higher access latency but with limited features.

Spaces Cold Storage supports write throughput of up to 25 MB per second per client thread and 250 MB per second per bucket, with up to 450 write, 250 read, and 25 list requests per second per bucket.

Retrieval fees are waived for data retrieved up to your average daily usage for the month. For pricing details, see our pricing page.

Spaces Cold Storage provides a 99.5% service level agreement (SLA) and is designed for long-term durability and consistent performance across large data volumes.

Integration with Other DigitalOcean Services

Spaces integrates with other DigitalOcean products to extend storage, delivery, and AI capabilities:

• Droplets: Use Spaces for backups, media storage, or static site hosting.
• App Platform: Store and serve static content directly from Spaces.
• Managed Databases: Store automated backups or exports in Spaces for durable, external storage.
• Gradient AI Platform: Host large datasets for training and AI workloads.