DVC remotes

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DVC remotes (S3 / WebDAV / SSH / HTTP / Drive) pointed at free backends Storage

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doc.dvc.org/user-guide/data-management/remote-storage · registry · storage/dvc-remotes-pointed-at-free-backends · JSON · compare

Free tier	N/A — DVC ships no storage; the remote is whatever free store you configure. Free-tier bytes = the backing store's bytes. Supports Amazon S3 + S3-compatible (MinIO etc. via `endpointurl`), Azure Blob, GCS, Google Drive, Aliyun OSS, SSH/SFTP, HDFS/WebHDFS, HTTP, WebDAV. unit mixed; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Inherited. The HTTP remote is read-only and can sit behind any CDN, which is the only path where DVC itself doesn't add egress cost.
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint in the record binds at this scale; the record carries no limit of a kind the vocabulary names
Interface	s3, git, cli s3
Tooling	`dvc` CLI + dvcfilesystem (fsspec). `dvc remote add s3://bucket && dvc remote modify myremote endpointurl https://s3.hf.co/<ns>` works. Native read-only Git-LFS support means `dvc get`/`dvc import` can pull straight from a Hugging Face repo without installing git-lfs.
Composes with	One repo, many remotes (`dvc remote add` x N), plus `dvc push -r <remote>` to pick. Any S3-compatible free endpoint multiplies: HF buckets, IA's IAS3, MinIO on a free VM, an Oracle/Cloudflare-adjacent free tier. DVC's content-addressed cache means the same 20 TiB corpus can be pushed to N stores and only the missing blobs transfer.
Reliability	DVC is an ML-tooling project (treeverse); remote support quality varies by backend. S3-compatible endpoints need `endpointurl` + often `use_ssl`/path-style tweaks. Reliability is effectively the backend's.
Notes	N/A — DVC ships no storage; the remote is whatever free store you configure. Free-tier bytes = the backing store's bytes. Supports Amazon S3 + S3-compatible (MinIO etc. via `endpointurl`), Azure Blob, GCS, Google Drive, Aliyun OSS, SSH/SFTP, HDFS/WebHDFS, HTTP, WebDAV.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	doc.dvc.org/user-guide/data-management/remote-storage	supported storage list and 'DVC does not provide or recommend a specific storage service'
2026-10-21	doc.dvc.org/user-guide/data-management/remote-storage/amazon	'Set the endpointurl parameter with the URL to connect to the S3-compatible service (e.g. Nebius, MinIO, IBM COS)'
2026-10-21	doc.dvc.org/user-guide/integrations/huggingface	native HF/Git-LFS import without git-lfs installed

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