# Zarr on other S3-compatible storage (e.g. DigitalOcean)?

**URL:** <https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/zarr-on-other-s3-compatible-storage-e-g-digitalocean/882>\
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**Created:** [September 27, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/zarr-on-other-s3-compatible-storage-e-g-digitalocean/882 "2020-09-27T02:08:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![josephyang](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.pangeo.io/josephyang/32/541_2.png) [@josephyang](https://discourse.pangeo.io/u/josephyang)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/zarr-on-other-s3-compatible-storage-e-g-digitalocean/882/1 "2020-09-27T02:08:01Z")

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Hello,

I previously used AWS S3 to store and use Xarray+Zarr, but was wondering if this should also work on other S3 compatible platforms. I use DigitalOcean for some of my work so would like to use their object storage if possible but it seems like all example cases that I can find are either GCS or AWS. Would be great to know if anyone has experience with using other S3-compatible platforms.

Thanks!  
Joseph

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**Author:** ![martindurant](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.pangeo.io/martindurant/32/388_2.png) [@martindurant](https://discourse.pangeo.io/u/martindurant)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/zarr-on-other-s3-compatible-storage-e-g-digitalocean/882/2 "2020-09-28T18:22:33Z")

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Yes, s3fs has been used with alibaba and on-prem S3 implementations like minio, You need to specify `client_kwargs={endpoint_url:" "}`; you would pass this to the file-system constructor right now, but soon you’ll be able to pass it it directly to the xarray open\_dataset function.

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**Author:** ![josephyang](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.pangeo.io/josephyang/32/541_2.png) [@josephyang](https://discourse.pangeo.io/u/josephyang)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 3:35am UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/zarr-on-other-s3-compatible-storage-e-g-digitalocean/882/3 "2020-09-29T03:35:29Z")

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That’s great to know, thanks for the information. I will give that a try.

Regards,

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**Author:** ![josephyang](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.pangeo.io/josephyang/32/541_2.png) [@josephyang](https://discourse.pangeo.io/u/josephyang)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 12:46am UTC](https://discourse.pangeo.io/t/zarr-on-other-s3-compatible-storage-e-g-digitalocean/882/4 "2020-10-07T00:46:07Z")

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Just wanted to follow up to say it worked great - thanks for the help @martindurant!