S3-compatible object storage Object storage without the AWS bill.
Authorised reseller of IDrive® e2 — S3-compatible storage with no egress fees, no API-call charges, and pricing that lands roughly 80–90% below AWS S3. Backups, archives, media, immutable buckets. Provisioned by us, billed by us, supported by us.
The storage bill that finally makes sense.
Same S3 API your tools already speak. Radically simpler pricing. One contact for provisioning, invoicing and support.
| Blackgate (IDrive e2) | AWS S3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Egress fees | $0 | ~$0.09 / GB |
| API request fees | $0 | Per-1k GET / PUT charges |
| Storage price | From ~$0.004 / GB / month | ~$0.023 / GB / month (Standard) |
| S3 API compatibility | Yes | Native |
| Object lock / immutability | Yes | Yes |
| Durability | 11 nines | 11 nines |
| Support | Direct from Blackgate | Tiered, paid |
AWS S3 pricing shown for reference (US regions, Standard tier). See current AWS and IDrive e2 pricing for exact figures.
What people actually put on it.
Backup & DR
Veeam, MSP360, Arq, Restic, Duplicacy, Kopia, Synology Hyper Backup — anything that speaks S3. Immutable buckets protect against ransomware and rogue admins.
Long-term archive
No egress fees means restores don’t become a nasty invoice. Cheap enough to keep the deep archive on hot storage rather than cold tape–style tiers.
Media & assets
Video, photo and creative libraries. Serve directly, or use as the origin behind Cloudflare or your CDN of choice.
App storage
Drop-in replacement for S3 in your app: point the SDK at our endpoint with an access key and go. No code changes to boto3, the AWS SDK, or MinIO clients.
Off-site copy
Second cloud copy for the 3-2-1 rule. Cross-cloud replication from AWS, GCS or Azure without paying egress on every sync.
Compliance workloads
SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, GDPR, FIPS. Immutability and versioning for audit trails and legal hold.
From enquiry to first bucket in under a day.
1. Tell us what you need
Rough capacity (TB), region preference, whether you need immutability or specific compliance. Send it via the form below or email hello@bg8.space.
2. We provision your account
We create your storage account, enable the region(s) you need, and hand you an endpoint URL, access key and secret key. That’s what your tools want.
3. Point your tools at it
Configure Veeam, rclone, Cyberduck, boto3, Restic, or whatever speaks S3. Endpoint + key + bucket, done. We help if anything is fiddly.
S3-compatible everything
The service exposes the standard S3 API. If your tool has an “S3-compatible” option, it works. Common integrations:
Veeam · MSP360 · rclone · Cyberduck · AWS CLI · boto3 · MinIO client · Restic · Duplicacy · Kopia · Synology · QNAP · TrueNAS · Arq
13 regions, hot storage everywhere
Regions across the US, Canada and Europe. All hot — no confusing tiered pricing, no retrieval fees, no thawing archives.
Simple, per-TB, no surprise line items.
Blackgate rates are based on the IDrive e2 reseller program. Egress and API requests are always $0. Final rate depends on region and commitment — talk to us for a quote sized to what you actually need.
Starter
- Single region
- 1 storage account
- Email support
- Free egress & API calls
Growth
- Multi-region option
- Immutable / object lock
- Access keys per bucket
- Priority email support
Scale
- Volume pricing
- Multiple accounts & regions
- Onboarding & migration help
- Direct contact channel
Doing a migration from AWS S3, Backblaze B2, or Wasabi? Ask us — we’ll help scope the copy.
Tell us what you want to store.
A rough capacity and a region is enough to get a quote back. We’ll reply within one business day, usually much faster.
Prefer email? hello@bg8.space.
Blackgate is an authorised reseller of IDrive® e2. IDrive is a registered trademark of IDrive Inc.