diff --git a/swh/objstorage/backends/libcloud.py b/swh/objstorage/backends/libcloud.py
--- a/swh/objstorage/backends/libcloud.py
+++ b/swh/objstorage/backends/libcloud.py
@@ -171,6 +171,11 @@
         obj = self._get_object(obj_id)
         return self.driver.delete_object(obj)
 
+    def _object_path(self, obj_id):
+        """Get the full path to an object"""
+        hex_obj_id = hashutil.hash_to_hex(obj_id)
+        return hex_obj_id
+
     def _get_object(self, obj_id):
         """Get a Libcloud wrapper for an object pointer.
 
@@ -178,10 +183,10 @@
         directly.
 
         """
-        hex_obj_id = hashutil.hash_to_hex(obj_id)
+        object_path = self._object_path(obj_id)
 
         try:
-            return self.driver.get_object(self.container_name, hex_obj_id)
+            return self.driver.get_object(self.container_name, object_path)
         except ObjectDoesNotExistError:
             raise ObjNotFoundError(obj_id)
 
@@ -202,13 +207,13 @@
         the given id.
 
         """
-        hex_obj_id = hashutil.hash_to_hex(obj_id)
+        object_path = self._object_path(obj_id)
 
         if not isinstance(content, collections.Iterator):
             content = (content,)
         self.driver.upload_object_via_stream(
             self._compressor(content),
-            self.container, hex_obj_id)
+            self.container, object_path)
 
 
 class AwsCloudObjStorage(CloudObjStorage):
diff --git a/swh/objstorage/tests/test_objstorage_cloud.py b/swh/objstorage/tests/test_objstorage_cloud.py
--- a/swh/objstorage/tests/test_objstorage_cloud.py
+++ b/swh/objstorage/tests/test_objstorage_cloud.py
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
 from libcloud.storage.types import (ContainerDoesNotExistError,
                                     ObjectDoesNotExistError)
 
-from swh.model import hashutil
-
 from swh.objstorage.objstorage import decompressors
 from swh.objstorage.exc import Error
 from swh.objstorage.backends.libcloud import CloudObjStorage
@@ -107,9 +105,9 @@
     def test_compression(self):
         content, obj_id = self.hash_content(b'add_get_w_id')
         self.storage.add(content, obj_id=obj_id)
-        data = self.storage.driver.containers[CONTAINER_NAME]
-        obj_id = hashutil.hash_to_hex(obj_id)
-        raw_content = b''.join(data[obj_id].content)
+
+        libcloud_object = self.storage._get_object(obj_id)
+        raw_content = b''.join(libcloud_object.content)
 
         d = decompressors[self.compression]()
         assert d.decompress(raw_content) == content
@@ -119,10 +117,8 @@
         content, obj_id = self.hash_content(b'test content without garbage')
         self.storage.add(content, obj_id=obj_id)
 
-        data = self.storage.driver.containers[CONTAINER_NAME]
-        obj_id = hashutil.hash_to_hex(obj_id)
-
-        data[obj_id].content.append(b'trailing garbage')
+        libcloud_object = self.storage._get_object(obj_id)
+        libcloud_object.content.append(b'trailing garbage')
 
         if self.compression == 'none':
             with self.assertRaises(Error) as e: