Questions about video storage

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@dorilama I found this a little confusing…

  • Data Transfer (Out): The amount of data transfer out (egress) from the Wasabi service to your application. Wasabi does not charge this usage but displays the volume of data transfer on your invoice.

For example, if you store 100 TB with Wasabi and download (egress) 100 TB or less within a monthly billing cycle, then your storage use case is a good fit for our policy. If your monthly downloads exceed 100 TB, then your use case is not a good fit.

My files are viewed a lot, but they are rarely downloaded. I don’t know if this policy applies only for downloaded files and/or for files sent to my app… I use Wasabi basically to view files…

You can see that my “Data Out” is very low. Billing below…

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I’ve not used the Zeroqode plugin but wiseable’s plug has the option to make files public but this has been disallowed since Wasabi changed their policy for new customers

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Google Cloud supports this and works like a charm. Wasabi does not allow this for new customers. I even checked with their support.

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Wasabi allows public access upon validation from Wasabi support. It is not disallowed per se.

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Thanks, i contacted their support and they said this is not available. I moved over to Google cloud storage and you plugin

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I mean that I use a Google Cloud Function to get the presigned URL from Wasabi. I don’t use Google Cloud for storage.

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fair enough, if it’s sporadic access then it’s inside thei policy

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My understanding is that egress is any data transfer leaving wasabi’s servers, wether it’s a downloaded file or not.
From your bill it looks like the egress is lower than the stored data, so you are in line with their policy. The strange thing is that you say the files are viewed a lot but the bill is almost zero. Maybe they do have a difference between “egress data transfer” and “data transfer out” :man_shrugging:

Anyway thank you both for sharing your experience :slight_smile:

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I had one person DM me telling me Wasabi wouldn’t allow for public access for their bucket, saying their use-case wasn’t fit for Wasabi and they need a CDN in front of Wasabi to handle caching and public URLs.

Of course not a bad idea to use CDN, but I thought it was a little crazy Wasabi was refusing to enable public files on the customer’s bucket… even when they weren’t doing heavy video just regular files