{"slug": "wasabi", "name": "Wasabi", "category": "files", "category_name": "Files, sync and backup", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 7, "warners": 0, "score": 3.601, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-11-18", "latest": "2026-04-14", "why": "We use R2 and Wasabi as our storage backends...so we obviously like them", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 4, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "We use R2 and Wasabi as our storage backends...so we obviously like them", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "wasabi.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://wasabi.com/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Wasabi"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 798083105, "item_id": 49880194, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880194", "by": "bojangleslover", "date": "2026-09-28", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use R2 and Wasabi as our storage backends...so we obviously like them", "excerpt": "> there is no fundamental technological barrier to building a true SSD-based, disaggregated storage service with the durability, capacity, and pricing profile needed to serve as a general-purpose replacement for S3 There are a lot of very competitive alternatives around today are largely unknown. For example B2 Overdrive by Backblaze boasting up to 1 Tbps, Wasabi offering byte-compatible S3 storage with no egress fee", "context": "", "use_case": "object storage backend", "switched_from": "", "story": "S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past"}, {"id": 764221730, "item_id": 47763858, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763858", "by": "e40", "date": "2026-04-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I moved to Wasabi immediately using rclone.", "excerpt": "I had issues with the personal backup product and was told the solution was to create a new account. I moved to Wasabi immediately using rclone. On macOS.", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud object storage", "switched_from": "Backblaze", "story": "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"}, {"id": 760580356, "item_id": 47536272, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536272", "by": "russellthehippo", "date": "2026-03-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it would work best with Wasabi, which doesn't charge for operations", "excerpt": "It's funny, I did consider that and put some work into doing it. I moved that work into a different project, https://github.com/russellromney/haqlite that focuses on high-availability SQLite. Like Litestream but focused on embedding in your application. It uses conditional PUTs for leader election, ships WAL to S3, and writes (and reads for consistency) are forwarded to the leader - so it's still single writer, but f", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Turbolite \u2013 a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3"}, {"id": 750378914, "item_id": 46898682, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46898682", "by": "wulfstan", "date": "2026-02-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've moved this to Wasabi at about 8 euros a month", "excerpt": "I've just shifted my SWE infrastructure from AWS to Hetzner (literally in the last month). My current analysis looks like it will be about 15-20% of the cost - \u00a3240 vs 40-50 euros. Expect a significant exit expense, though, especially if you are shifting large volumes of S3 data. That's been our biggest expense. I've moved this to Wasabi at about 8 euros a month (vs about $70-80 a month on S3), but I've paid transit ", "context": "", "use_case": "S3-compatible object storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["object storage backend", "cloud object storage", "s3 storage", "s3-compatible object storage", "video storage"], "compared": [{"slug": "backblaze", "name": "Backblaze", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "amazon-s3", "name": "Amazon S3", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "cloudflare-r2", "name": "Cloudflare R2", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "backblaze-b2", "name": "Backblaze B2", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "minio", "name": "MinIO", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 752015682, "item_id": 47000980, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000980", "by": "bojangleslover", "date": "2026-02-13", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Wasabi is our bread and butter object storage now", "excerpt": "Completely different situations. None of the MinIO team worked for free. MinIO is a COSS company (commercial open source software). They give a basic version of it away for free hoping that some people, usually at companies, will want to pay for the premium features. MinIO going closed source is a business decision and there is nothing wrong with that. I highly recommend SeaweedFS. 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For example B2 Overdrive by Backblaze boasting up to 1 Tbps, Wasabi offering byte-compatible S3 storage with no egress fee", "context": "", "use_case": "object storage backend", "switched_from": "", "story": "S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past"}, {"id": 764221730, "item_id": 47763858, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763858", "by": "e40", "date": "2026-04-14", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I moved to Wasabi immediately using rclone.", "excerpt": "I had issues with the personal backup product and was told the solution was to create a new account. I moved to Wasabi immediately using rclone. On macOS.", "context": "", "use_case": "cloud object storage", "switched_from": "Backblaze", "story": "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"}, {"id": 763394529, "item_id": 47712158, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712158", "by": "12907835202", "date": "2026-04-09", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "keep copies on Aws S3, wasabi, r2", "excerpt": "I guess you may have alot of files, but to me object storage is so cheap I keep copies on Aws S3, wasabi, r2 and a 16 TB HDD on my hetzner server. Admittedly 4 might be too many. But at some point I switched to r2 for the free public egress and deleting one of Aws or wasabi has never been a priority and I don't want to do it without putting in the time to quadruple check I'm not deleting anything important. But at th", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months"}, {"id": 760580356, "item_id": 47536272, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536272", "by": "russellthehippo", "date": "2026-03-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it would work best with Wasabi, which doesn't charge for operations", "excerpt": "It's funny, I did consider that and put some work into doing it. I moved that work into a different project, https://github.com/russellromney/haqlite that focuses on high-availability SQLite. Like Litestream but focused on embedding in your application. It uses conditional PUTs for leader election, ships WAL to S3, and writes (and reads for consistency) are forwarded to the leader - so it's still single writer, but f", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Turbolite \u2013 a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3"}, {"id": 752038305, "item_id": 47002394, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002394", "by": "jodrellblank", "date": "2026-02-13", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve never heard of SeaweedFS, but Ceph cluster storage system has an S3-compatible layer (Object Gateway). It\u2019s used by CERN to make Petabyte-scale storage capable of ingesting data from particle collider experiments and they're now up to 17 clusters and 74PB which speaks to its production stability. Apparently people use it down to 3-host Proxmox virtualisation clusters, in a similar place as VMware VSAN. Ceph has ", "context": "", "use_case": "S3 storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"}, {"id": 750378914, "item_id": 46898682, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46898682", "by": "wulfstan", "date": "2026-02-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've moved this to Wasabi at about 8 euros a month", "excerpt": "I've just shifted my SWE infrastructure from AWS to Hetzner (literally in the last month). My current analysis looks like it will be about 15-20% of the cost - \u00a3240 vs 40-50 euros. Expect a significant exit expense, though, especially if you are shifting large volumes of S3 data. That's been our biggest expense. I've moved this to Wasabi at about 8 euros a month (vs about $70-80 a month on S3), but I've paid transit ", "context": "", "use_case": "S3-compatible object storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"}, {"id": 742000834, "item_id": 46375052, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375052", "by": "christophilus", "date": "2025-12-24", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "stored in Wasabi", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve used Netcup to run an ffmpeg transcoding fleet, stored in Wasabi, served via BunnyCDN. It worked great, and I had total control of everything. You might also check out Bunny\u2019s video services which didn\u2019t exist when I built out my solution.", "context": "", "use_case": "video storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cloudflare Stream + Backblaze vs. GCP for Short Form Video?"}, {"id": 735485746, "item_id": 45967859, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45967859", "by": "coreylane", "date": "2025-11-18", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "go subscribe to status.wasabi.com alerts", "excerpt": "I find stuff like this all the time, railway.com recently launched an object storage service, but it's simply a wrapper for wasabi buckets under the hood, and they don't mention this anywhere... not even the subprocessors page https://railway.com/legal/subprocessors - customers have no idea they are using wasabi storage buckets unless they dig around the dns records. so i have to do all this research to find upstream", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Multiple Digital Ocean services down"}]}