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Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

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Post by loisaidasam » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 7:18 PM UTC

dividuum wrote: post #22

loisaidasam wrote: post #17

This looks great. Are there any client libraries for access, perhaps similar to AWS's `boto`? Having a hard time finding that on your website ..

Since it claims to be "100% bit compatible with Amazon S3", I would assume that you can use boto if you manually configure their endpoints.

Would be nice to see a note about that somewhere

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

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Post by pella » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 7:18 PM UTC

throwaway2016a wrote: post #36

> Wasabi is built to be 100% AWS S3 bit-compatible (same AWS API constructs for storage & identity management). No need to change your S3-compatible application when using Wasabi I often wonder how this works. With the whole Sun lawsuit with Google over the Java API making a clone of another platforms API sounds dangerous. I'm curious what HN thinks. I've wanted to have a "compatibility layer" that mimics my competit…

Minio also has a S3 "compatibility layer"

see: https://minio.io/ "implements Amazon S3 v4 APIs. Minio also includes client SDKs and a console utility."

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

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Post by zzzcpan » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 7:39 PM UTC

kevan wrote: post #21

They're claiming the same 11 9s durability that S3 does. I'd be pretty suspicious of that claim without a track record but it looks like Wasabi's founders come from Carbonite. Bring on the competition, commoditization of fundamental building blocks is great for everyone except people trying to make startup-scale returns on them.

Those durability numbers for both Amazon and Wasabi are pure marketing and don't really mean anything even remotely important. Durability of data stored by a single company, even a company like Amazon, is actually very low, you should be scared of how low it really is. You could get kicked out from the service, lose data because of a bug or an operational mistake, be prevented from using the service by your government for political reasons and so on.

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

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Post by bdcravens » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 7:55 PM UTC

throwaway2016a wrote: post #36

> Wasabi is built to be 100% AWS S3 bit-compatible (same AWS API constructs for storage & identity management). No need to change your S3-compatible application when using Wasabi I often wonder how this works. With the whole Sun lawsuit with Google over the Java API making a clone of another platforms API sounds dangerous. I'm curious what HN thinks. I've wanted to have a "compatibility layer" that mimics my competit…

Google Cloud Storage does this (not sure about % of API completeness, but I've tested it with basic use cases like using Transmit)

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/interoperability

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

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Post by bogomipz » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 8:02 PM UTC

The article states:

"Wasabi’s durability is 11 x 9s, the same as Amazon S3. To put that in context, if you stored 1 million 1 GB files in Wasabi, you would expect on average to lose one file every 659,000 years"

Can someone walk me through the math here? I specifically curious about why the size of the file being 1 GB is relevant to the calculation.

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

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Post by the_common_man » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 8:03 PM UTC

pella wrote: post #62

throwaway2016a wrote: post #36

> Wasabi is built to be 100% AWS S3 bit-compatible (same AWS API constructs for storage & identity management). No need to change your S3-compatible application when using Wasabi I often wonder how this works. With the whole Sun lawsuit with Google over the Java API making a clone of another platforms API sounds dangerous. I'm curious what HN thinks. I've wanted to have a "compatibility layer" that mimics my competit…

Minio also has a S3 "compatibility layer" see: https://minio.io/ "implements Amazon S3 v4 APIs. Minio also includes client SDKs and a console utility."

http://pithos.io/

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

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Post by thoughtpalette » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 8:07 PM UTC

Would love to hear from someones perspective whom actually moved current infrastructure over to this provider. Would love a write-up and pros-cons after transitioning.

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

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Post by ProAm » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 8:18 PM UTC

Isn't Wasabi a programming language from Fog Creek Software?

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

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Post by mv4 » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 8:19 PM UTC

ComputerGuru wrote: post #26

Does anyone have a suggestion for a cheaper CloudFront, not S3? Preferably an option that can do S3 upstream, and support for signed requests with expiry is a must.

If you need to do video, check out https://advection.net/

We beat CloudFront pricing by 50..80% in most cases.

(I am a co-founder)

Re: Wasabi – Simple storage solution

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Post by tomovo » Fri, Jul 28, 2017, 8:22 PM UTC

Wouldn't it be funny if this was just a market test/exercise, using actual S3 as a backend, just to see if it gets any traction before building own HW/SW solution?