The honest comparison for teams choosing European storage for AI workloads.
| Feature | eustore.dev | AWS S3 |
|---|---|---|
| API-first signup | ✓ 1 API call | ✗ Console + credit card |
| EU data residency | ✓ Germany & Finland only | ⚠️ EU regions available, US company |
| GDPR operator | ✓ Norwegian company | ✗ US company (CLOUD Act) |
| AI agent onboarding | ✓ No human needed | ✗ Requires human setup |
| Free trial | ✓ 50 credits, no card | 12 months limited free tier |
| Crypto payments | ✓ USDC, ETH | ✗ |
| MCP Server | ✓ pip install eustore | ✗ |
| Storage cost | €0.02/GB/mo | $0.023/GB/mo |
| Egress cost | €0.01/GB | $0.09/GB |
| Time to first bucket | <10 seconds | ~5 minutes |
Your AI agents need to autonomously provision and use storage in the EU. You need true GDPR compliance with a European operator. You want to pay with crypto. You don't want to give AI agents access to your AWS root account.
You need petabyte-scale storage, advanced features like S3 Glacier, S3 Select, or tight integration with the AWS ecosystem. You have humans managing infrastructure.
Even with data stored in eu-central-1, Amazon is a US company. Under the CLOUD Act, US law enforcement can compel Amazon to hand over data stored in EU data centers. eustore.dev is operated by AI BOLLINGMO, a Norwegian company. Norwegian law applies. No CLOUD Act exposure.
# Register (free, instant)
curl -X POST https://api.eustore.dev/v1/auth/register \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name":"my-agent","email":"agent@example.com"}'
# 50 free credits. No card required.
# Full S3 compatibility — use boto3 as usual.