Amazon Web Services S3 (AWS) has dominated the market in the cloud storage space since it became prominent. Since the adoption of cloud storage offerings from more traditional companies have raced to compete with AWS S3. There is only one true competitor who isn’t afraid to rival the likes of AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage and Google Cloud Storage when it comes to pricing — Wasabi Cloud Storage.
Pricing, Wasabi prides itself on being 1/5th cheaper than Amazon S3 by offering no egress charges and no API request charges, overall they claim that you can cut your cloud storage costs by 80%. From the below table, you
Data Durability, Wasabi, Amazon, Google all share 11 9’s of data durability, whereas, Microsoft Azure offers up to 16 9’s of data durability if you pay for a higher tier of redundant storage such as GRS/RA-GRS.
What exactly is data durability?
“Data durability refers to long-term data protection, i.e. the stored data does not suffer from bit rot, degradation or other corruption” — Western Digital Blog
“The ability to keep the stored data consistent, intact without the influence of bit rot, drive failures, or any…
