# Host Europe evidence gap — resolved 2026-08-15

## The answer

Account-holder statement, 2026-08-15:

> Host Europe does not support fully managed S3, and even less so an API to
> provision storage.

This closes the gap that `RESOURCE-WP-0002-T01` and `T02` had been holding open
since 2026-08-10. It is a **blocking answer**, which the T02 acceptance
criterion explicitly permits alongside evidence and `unknown`.

## Provenance, stated honestly

This is the account holder's knowledge, not vendor-written confirmation. The
original request was for written terms from Host Europe account support; that
correspondence never happened and, given the answer, has no purpose. The
provider record carries the distinction in `status_evidence` rather than
implying a vendor document exists.

The 2020 `Preis_und_Leistungsverzeichnis_CloudStorage_1-0-1.pdf` is therefore a
historical specification, not a currently orderable product. Every row of the
2026-08-10 due-diligence matrix that reads `unknown` for Host Europe Cloud
Storage should now be read as **not applicable — the product is not offered**.
That matrix is a dated evidence record and has not been rewritten; this document
supersedes its Host Europe column.

## What this changes

**`data/providers/object-storage.json`** — `host-europe-cloud-storage` moves
from `blocked-account-confirmation` to `not-offered`.

**T02 is satisfiable.** Every acceptance requirement now has evidence, an
`unknown`, or a blocking answer for each provider. Host Europe's blocking answer
is that the product does not exist.

**T01 is satisfiable, and the A/B/C comparison was never actually missing a
leg.** Host Europe has no managed S3 to price, so its real form in this
comparison is self-managed Garage on Host Europe VMs — which is already priced
from their public virtual-server catalogue and always was:

| Option | Month 1–9 recurring | Month 12 | Note |
|---|---:|---|---|
| Scaleway Standard Multi-AZ (chosen) | €60.60 → €67.35 | €67.35 | elastic, no capacity ceiling |
| Hetzner Object Storage | €96.49 | €96.49 | within the 1 TB quota |
| **Host Europe, self-managed Garage 3-node** | **€335.77** | **fails closed** | 400 GB usable; base demand reaches 458 GB |

Host Europe is roughly **five times** the chosen option on recurring cost, and
runs out of usable capacity inside the twelve-month horizon: at month 12 the
model refuses to quote because a fixed-capacity VM set has no per-GB overage
price — you would buy another node, not another gigabyte.

So the decision recorded in `opt:platform-audit-storage:2026-08` is not weakened
by the missing evidence; it is strengthened. The excluded option was excluded
for want of terms, and the terms would not have changed the outcome.

## The second half of the statement matters separately

"No API to provision storage" is a procurement-facility fact, not a pricing
fact. Any future Host Europe resource is **manually provisioned**: no
programmatic create, no scoped provisioning credential, no automated teardown.
That belongs to the procurement facility (`RESOURCE-WP-0005`) and to
`RAIL-HO-WP-0008`, which still owns the railiance01 server's commercial terms.
It also means the existing `resource:hosteurope:railiance01` record will never
acquire a provider-native resource ID from an API; whatever identity it gets
comes from the control panel or an invoice.

## What is deliberately not changed

`opt:platform-audit-storage:2026-08` is a decision record and keeps the state it
had when the founder approved it on 2026-08-14, including Host Europe's recorded
`unknowns` and the exclusion reason written at that time. A decision record
documents what was known when the decision was made. This document is the
supersession, and the next quarterly review reads both.

## Residual

None for Host Europe object storage. The comparison set for future quarterly
re-evaluation is Scaleway (incumbent), Hetzner, and self-managed Garage —
on Hetzner VMs rather than Host Europe, since Host Europe offers no advantage
on price, capacity headroom, or failure-domain independence from railiance01.