Generic S3 Support
Upload, transform, optimize, and serve files from any S3-compatible storage service with Bytescale.
Own and manage the bucket your files are stored in.
No storage charge for files stored in your bucket. *
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You’ll still be charged the full price of your Bytescale Plan, which includes built-in storage and an upload request quota. Storage in your bucket can grow without limit and won’t incur extra charges from Bytescale. Uploads to external buckets using the Bytescale API count toward your upload request quota. Data transferred from Bytescale to external buckets counts as egress traffic. Enterprise Plans may use different bandwidth rates for egress to external storage vs. CDN delivery—please contact support for details.
Please note the following when using external storage:
Storage usage for your bucket is not reported in the Bytescale Dashboard.
Requests to transform files from external storage may incur additional latency due to internal download operations:
Video and audio transformations incur ~1 second of extra latency per 75MB of input file size when using external storage.*
Image transformations incur no extra latency: the performance is the same as using Bytescale's Built-in Storage.
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Applies to the first request only: once the result is cached all subsequent requests to the same URL will return near-instantly.
To use your bucket as read/write storage for your Bytescale account:
Get the URL endpoint for your external storage service.
This URL should not contain the bucket name.
This URL may contain other identifiers, such as the region or your account ID with the CSP.
This is the URL for the S3 API itself—not to be confused with the bucket’s public URL (if one exists).
Examples: https://storage.googleapis.com, https://[cloudflare_account_id].r2.cloudflarestorage.com
Create an access key ID + secret access key pair.
This key pair must have read/write/list access to the bucket.
Create a folder in the Bytescale Dashboard.
Edit the folder's settings.
Click on "Storage Settings".
Change "Storage Type" to "Generic S3".
Follow the instructions on the form that appears.
Click on "Save Changes".
For reference, the "Storage Settings" section of the "Folder Settings" page is shown below:
These pages may also be helpful:
