Question
Are there published practical limits for Spaces storage?
- Posted on April 23, 2025
- DigitalOcean SpacesObject StorageSpace Object Storage
Asked by Benjamin Listwon
Hi, I’m working on a multi-tenant application which will potentially make extensive usage of object storage, organized by tenant buckets.
I’m aware of the base plan’s limits and the rate of charges after that ($.02 for GiB of storage and $.01 for tx), but I am curious if there is a published resource on the practical limits or gotchas of using object storage.
For example, are there limits on file addresses per bucket? Max size limitations per bucket of for object storage overall? Performance recommendations for when to shard/fragment buckets? Does file per bucket volume affect CDN strategies? Etc.
Also wondering what general lessons are portable from AWS experience and if there are unique stories or experiences others have had with DO spaces.
I know this is pretty open ended, but there is not a lot of canonical info on the broader interwebs, so I thought maybe I’d duck in here and inquire.
Thanks in advance for any pointers!
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Hi there,
There aren’t super detailed docs on practical limits, but they do list the hard limits here: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/details/limits/
In practice, most people won’t hit limits unless you’re storing millions of objects in a single bucket, performance can dip then, so sharding buckets by tenant or use case is smart. No per-bucket size cap, but each object can be up to 5TB.
If you’re coming from AWS S3, most best practices carry over, especially around naming conventions, CDN usage, and lifecycle policies.
- Bobby
Heya, @benjaminlistwon
The basic limits are listed here:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/details/limits/#limits
If you have a specific limit query you can share more information and we can look into any potential issues that may arrise.
Regards