Wasabi – S3 Compatible Cloud Storage

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25 points·deathtrader666··5 comments

The pricing is interesting. But, imho, the true benefit of S3 comes with the integrations with lambda, etc. And signed URLs. You can move so much of your client side logic into AWS infrastructure if you build it using their tools. I'm not sure how Wasabi could really integrate with those systems. And, that is where the real cost is, in building and maintaining those systems, so the cost is not in the storage but elsewhere. For a large organization maybe the cost savings would be significant, but I can't imagine they would outweigh the gigantic development and maintenance costs.

After Microsoft's giant OneDrive bait-and-switch a few years ago I am super skeptical of any "too good to be true" storage pricing. I really wonder how it is physically possible to offer these rates.

Not too good to be true.

Check out Wasabi’s graph, you’ll see even at their pricing, you can buy a brand new top of the line fully loaded Synology or QNAP NAS populated with high capacity high performance (online use) Enterprise model HDDs every year for the same price.

And that’s at consumer scales. Turns out very easy to beat at commercial scale.

But the point is, it's easy to offer low prices to start, then once a bunch of customers have shifted their data, to jack up the prices and profit from it. Do they offer a guarantee of price stability?

Contrasting with B2 (the cheapest usable option I know of) it's cheaper, especially if there's a lot of egress. Has anyone used this or have any experience with their support?

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