---
title: Connect Wasabi
description: "Create a Wasabi access key scoped to the buckets your team needs, find your region, and connect your Wasabi buckets to quickS3."
section: Connections
order: 110
audience: [owner]
status: published
lastVerified: 2026-09-15
sources:
  - web/src/components/app/provider-connections/ConnectionFormCard.tsx
  - web/src/components/app/provider-connections/provider-utils.ts
  - src/objects/routes/providers.cors.ts
---

You need a Wasabi access key and the region your buckets are in.

## 1. Create an access key

In the Wasabi console, create a user just for quickS3 under **Users**, and give it a policy that covers only the buckets your team needs. For browsing, uploading, and deleting, it needs to list the bucket and read, write, and delete objects. Wasabi's policies use the same format as AWS, so the [AWS policy example](/docs/connections/aws-s3/#1-create-an-iam-user-and-policy) works with your bucket names in it.

Then create an access key for that user and copy both parts. Wasabi only shows the secret once.

## 2. Add the connection

1. In quickS3, open **Connections**, select **New connection**, and pick **Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage**.
2. Enter a **Name**.
3. In **Region**, pick the region your buckets are in, like `eu-central-1`. quickS3 fills in the endpoint and shows it below the field.
4. Paste the **Access key ID** and **Secret key**.
5. If the key can't list all buckets, type the bucket names into **Bucket scopes**.
6. Keep CORS updates on and select **Connect provider**.

Then select **Test connection**. You want **Connection verified** with "CORS allows direct uploads".

Your region is shown next to each bucket in the Wasabi console. A connection only reaches buckets in its own region, so add one connection per region you use.

## If uploads are blocked by CORS

Wasabi allows browser uploads for most accounts out of the box. If the test warns about CORS, someone has probably set a stricter CORS rule on the bucket. Open the bucket's settings in the Wasabi console and add a CORS rule for origin `https://quicks3.com` with methods `GET`, `HEAD`, and `PUT`, all headers allowed, and `ETag` exposed. Keep any rules already there, then test again.

## Good to know

Wasabi charges for a minimum storage period, even for files you delete early. That's Wasabi's billing rule, not a quickS3 limit, so check it before using a Wasabi bucket for short-lived files.