DigitalOcean Spaces Object Storage Now in Toronto

If object storage is an important part of your data strategy, you’ll be thrilled to hear that DigitalOcean Spaces is now available in our Toronto (TOR1) datacenter.

Spaces now available in Toronto (TOR1)

This new location brings object storage closer to customers in Canada and the northeastern U.S., offering lower latency while also supporting compliance with local data residency requirements.

With the Toronto datacenter now part of our growing global network, it’s easier than ever for businesses to store and deliver content close to their users. With this expansion, Spaces is available in all 9 DigitalOcean regions, including London, Sydney, and Bangalore.

New off-site backup options for NYC3 customers

It’s common for backup strategies to involve creating off-site backups to a different datacenter. Now, with Spaces available in TOR1, existing customers in NYC3 can easily set up off-site backups to Toronto for added resilience and business continuity.

What is DigitalOcean Spaces?

DigitalOcean Spaces is an S3-compatible object storage service designed to handle large amounts of unstructured data, such as images, videos, backups, and web assets, as well as data for use with AI/ML workloads. It is designed to be simple, reliable, and cost-effective for those developing web or mobile apps, serving media, running analytics workloads, or building for AI/ML. With a built-in CDN, it helps minimize page load times and improve performance. It’s an ideal solution for developers and businesses seeking scalable, reliable, and cost-effective storage.

Highly scalable and affordable object storage

Whether you’re looking to support streaming data services, game development, storage for ElasticSearch snapshots or Grafana Mimir data, or backups for your WordPress site, Spaces has you covered.

Spaces can also host large datasets to train AI models on DigitalOcean GPU Droplets (available in TOR1 and NYC2), output from generative AI workflows, and data that can be used to create knowledge bases for RAG workflows in DigitalOcean’s new Generative AI platform (now in early availability).

Spaces is available globally starting at just $5 per month for 250 GiB of storage with 1 TiB of outbound transfer. Plus, Spaces does not charge for inbound transfer into Spaces or for same-region outbound transfer to DigitalOcean Droplets.

Try DigitalOcean Spaces in Toronto today

If you’re already using DigitalOcean Spaces, adding the Toronto region is simple. When creating a new Spaces bucket, select “Toronto • Datacenter 1 • TOR1” as the datacenter location. You can also migrate existing data to the Toronto region using Flexify, SnapShooter, rclone, or other S3-compatible migration tools.

If you’re a new Spaces user: Create a bucket and upload files directly from the DigitalOcean Control Panel in just a few clicks, or use S3-compatible file clients, command line tools like the AWS CLI, Terraform, or the AWS SDKs. Our comprehensive documentation, tutorials, Sales team, and Support team are available to guide you through every step.

If you need assistance migrating from Amazon S3 or other object storage solutions, please get in touch with our Sales team or open a Support ticket directly from the DigitalOcean Control Panel.