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I’m looking at wasabi to host some large (500-1000M) distributable binary files. Anyone have experience with them?


Quite some caveats. Minimum storage used per month is 1TB. That means, if you store 250MB of files on there you will still be charged for the whole TB. Also, you will be charged for storing those files for at least 90 days even if you only keep them for 1 day. Lastly, and this is a very important one, you only have free egress equaling the total amount of data you have stored. So, say you have 2 TB stored, you can only egress 2 TB that month.

If you start to exceed that limit they are free to suspend your account.

So it depends very much on your use case, but there were too many risks for my use cases.


Yeah, the bandwidth limit was a killer issue for my use case as well. I've heard from older businesses there were exemptions from limit for older enterprise customers but based on a couple sales calls I had with them, they no longer provide any exemption for bandwidth and there is no option to just pay for more bandwidth for any plan. The cost of accounting and having to always predict and significantly overshoot the amount of bandwidth needed easily outweighed any cost benefit wasabi gave for my use case. This seems like a strange limitation that they cant just charge me for max(storage_gb, transfer_gb) but it seems their infrastructure was designed with that limit in mind.


Thanks! Didn’t see that anywhere on the site.




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