UpCloud Object Storage Alternative

UpCloud Object Storage is a clean, S3-compatible product deployed in specific European and US zones, priced by the storage plan you select. Its strength is predictable regional storage; its gap, for a lot of developers, is delivery. There is no edge cache included, so if your audience is spread across continents you either accept the round-trip to the UpCloud zone or you stand up a separate CDN and wire its origin pull, cache headers, and invalidation yourself. files.link removes that second project entirely.

Storage and a global CDN ship as one product, so the URL you get back after upload is already an edge-served URL. You never choose a zone, and you never reconcile two dashboards. The integration is also lighter: instead of S3 signing, you authenticate with your raw API key in the Authorization header and run a three-call upload. POST /v1/files/{folderId} returns { success, urls:[{ url, id }] }; you PUT the bytes to that presigned url; you confirm with POST /v1/files/confirm-upload and a body of { ids:[...] }.

To move an existing UpCloud bucket, run aws s3 sync --endpoint-url <upcloud-endpoint> s3://your-bucket ./export, then iterate the export through that three-call flow — a script of a few dozen lines. Where UpCloud asks you to think in plans and zones, files.link asks you to think in projects and folders: each client, app, or environment gets its own namespace and can carry its own API key, and any object can be exposed as a permanent shareable link or locked behind a time-limited signed URL.

Billing is prepaid credits drawn against real storage and delivery rather than a flat plan, which fits teams whose traffic is uneven month to month. If you genuinely depend on the S3 protocol and tooling, UpCloud keeps that; if your real goal is to upload a file and have it load quickly worldwide with the least moving parts, the consolidated model is the easier path.