Using Wasabi with quickS3 for Cost-Effective Storage

Wasabi prices cloud storage differently from most: no egress fees, no API request fees, just one flat rate per TB per month. quickS3 supports it as an S3-compatible provider with a dedicated connection form. You pick a region and enter your credentials, and quickS3 works out the right endpoint so you don’t have to go hunting for it.

A quick thank-you while we’re here: Wasabi kindly supports quickS3 with a complimentary VIP account. We’re grateful for it, and it’s part of why we’re able to test and maintain the Wasabi integration properly. It doesn’t change any of the steps below.

Why choose Wasabi?

The headline is the pricing: no egress fees, so you can pull down as much data as you want without the bill creeping up, and a flat per-TB rate that’s easy to forecast. It’s a normal S3 endpoint underneath, so it works with quickS3’s access control, audit log, and browser upload/download flows, and if you need it, Wasabi offers optional object lock for immutable, compliance-friendly storage.

Step 1: Create a Wasabi bucket and access keys

1. Sign up for a Wasabi account and create a bucket in the region you want (e.g. us-east-1, eu-central-1).
2. In the Wasabi console, go to Settings → Access Keys and click Create New Access Key.
3. Copy the Access Key ID and Secret Key and store them somewhere safe; you’ll paste them into quickS3 in the next step.

Step 2: Add a Wasabi provider in quickS3

1. In quickS3, go to Storage Providers and click Add Provider.
2. Choose Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage.
3. Fill in the form:
   • Region is the Wasabi region where your bucket lives (e.g. us-east-1, eu-central-1). Type the region code or pick one from the suggestions. quickS3 shows and uses the correct endpoint for that region, so you don’t enter an endpoint URL yourself.
   • Bucket scopes (optional): leave blank to let quickS3 list every bucket the key can reach. If the key can’t list buckets, enter a comma-separated list of names (e.g. marketing-assets, backups).
   • Access key ID is your Wasabi access key.
   • Secret key is your Wasabi secret key.
4. Leave Allow quickS3 to update bucket CORS settings (recommended) on so quickS3 can add the quicks3.com origin for browser uploads.
5. Save. quickS3 validates the connection, and then you can assign buckets to roles and start using them.

How quickS3 picks the Wasabi endpoint

quickS3 builds the endpoint from the Region you choose:

• us-east-1 → https://s3.wasabisys.com
• Any other region → https://s3.<region>.wasabisys.com (e.g. https://s3.eu-central-1.wasabisys.com)

So you only need to know your bucket’s region; the endpoint is set automatically. Supported regions include us-east-1, us-east-2, us-central-1, us-west-1, us-west-2, ca-central-1, eu-central-1, eu-west-1, ap-northeast-1, ap-northeast-2, ap-southeast-1, and ap-southeast-2.

Pricing comparison

The savings get dramatic once egress is involved. Here’s a month of 5 TB storage and 10 TB egress:

Provider	Storage	Egress	Total
AWS S3	~$115	~$900	~$1,015
Wasabi	~$30	$0	~$30

Prices as of 2025 and subject to change

Limitations to know about

Wasabi’s pricing comes with a few trade-offs. Files have a 90-day minimum retention, so you pay for that window even if you delete sooner. There’s no object versioning, which S3 does support. And the third-party ecosystem is smaller than AWS, so you’ll find fewer ready-made integrations.

What Wasabi is good for

It’s a strong fit for backup and archive, where you want long-term storage you can still pull from often, and for media like video and large image libraries. The lack of egress fees makes it especially good for high-volume distribution and for surveillance footage, where data piles up and gets read back regularly.

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Ready to save on storage costs? Sign up for quickS3 and connect your Wasabi bucket today.