> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://bonusmastodon.aus.social/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://bonusmastodon.aus.social/basics/cloud-media-storage-s3-buckets.md). # Cloud Media Storage (S3 Buckets) There are plenty of cloud storage providers that support the AWS S3 bucket hosting. AWS S3 has 99.999% SLA, but also very very expensive. Don’t use it. * [Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/) * [Digital Ocean Spaces](https://www.digitalocean.com/products/spaces) * [Linode Object Storage](https://www.linode.com/products/object-storage/) * [Vultr Object Storage](https://www.vultr.com/products/object-storage/) * [Exoscale Simple Object Storage (SOS)](https://www.exoscale.com/object-storage/) * [OVH Object Storage](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-au/public-cloud/object-storage/) * [Wasabi Cloud Storage](https://wasabi.com/s3-compatible-cloud-storage/) * [Backblaze Cloud Storage](https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html) * [Jortage Communal Cloud](https://jortage.com/) (huge fan of this service for US instances) * Bunny.net Cloud Storage (coming 2023) ## Recommendations * Just try to find one in your region… not a lot “tuning” that can be done on this front. * I'd recommend putting a Media Subdomain () or similar to front your traffic. [Read about that here](/basics/cloud-media-storage-s3-buckets/media-subdomain.md). ### AWS S3 Do not for any reason use AWS S3... they charge you for storage and upload/download.

I was using AWS S3, and once more than a few thousand people joined... it went from $30 to $1000s a month for something Wasabi charges $10

### Wasabi I'm using Wasabi, because they are very cheap. They have a history of outages in their primary regions, but in Sydney, I haven't experienced any issues with their service (as of writing).