/// CREATE A BUCKET / WASABI

Create a Wasabi bucket

Tired of guessing what next month's storage bill will be? Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage is built around flat, predictable pricing — one price per terabyte, with no egress fees and no API-request tiers. Create a Wasabi bucket below, then connect it to storafleet and migrate your existing data across.

Wasabi is fully S3-compatible — the same bucket, access key, and endpoint pattern you know from AWS S3, just at a single flat rate.

Create a Wasabi account

Sign up at wasabi.com (a free trial is available), then sign in to the Wasabi console at console.wasabisys.com. The console is where you manage buckets, users, and access keys. See Wasabi's Getting Started guide for the full walkthrough.

Create a bucket

Screenshot: the create-bucket dialog — the name here becomes the Fleet's bucket.

In the console, click Buckets in the left menu, then Create Bucket in the upper-right. Wasabi opens a five-step wizard — Bucket Name → Set Properties → Logging → Tags → Review:

Bucket Name — enter a globally unique, DNS-compliant name (3 to 63 lowercase letters, numbers, periods, or dashes; no underscores, no leading or trailing dashes, no IP-address format) and choose the Region (e.g. us-east-1 or eu-central-1). Note the region — you'll need it for the endpoint URL below.
Set Properties (optional) — turn on Bucket Versioning to keep previous versions of objects. To use Object Lock (immutability) you must enable Bucket Versioning first — and Object Lock can only be turned on here at creation time, never added to the bucket later.
Logging and Tags are optional — click Next to skip them.
On Review, confirm your choices and click Create Bucket.

Full steps are in Wasabi's Creating a Bucket documentation.

Know Wasabi's billing minimums before you migrate. Wasabi's flat pricing comes with a few minimums so you aren't surprised: a 90-day minimum storage duration on Pay-as-You-Go (deleting an object before 90 days still incurs a Timed Deleted Storage charge for the remaining days — 30 days on Reserved Capacity), a minimum billable object size of 4 KB (smaller objects are billed as 4 KB), and a monthly minimum of 1 TB of active storage per account (you're billed for at least 1 TB even if you store less). See Wasabi's Minimum Storage Duration Policy and Monthly Minimum Storage Charge.

Create an access key

Screenshot: the provider's key / secret confirmation screen — copy both values now (the secret is often shown only once).

storafleet authenticates to Wasabi with an Access Key and Secret Key pair. To create one:

Select Access Keys in the left menu, then click Create Access Key.
Choose the user type — Root User or Sub-User — then click Create. Wasabi recommends a dedicated sub-user rather than your root account for day-to-day bucket access.
Your Access Key is shown; click Show to reveal the Secret Key. Download the CSV or copy both to the clipboard now — you'll need them in storafleet.

The Secret Key is shown only once. If you don't download or copy the keys before closing the dialog, you cannot retrieve them later — you'd have to create a new key (each user is limited to two access keys).

See Wasabi's Creating a New Access Key and Creating a User Account and Access Key documentation.

Find your endpoint

Because Wasabi uses a custom endpoint, storafleet needs the service URL that matches your bucket's region. The format is:

https://s3.<REGION>.wasabisys.com

Substitute the region you chose when creating the bucket. For example:

us-east-1 → s3.us-east-1.wasabisys.com (also reachable as s3.wasabisys.com)
us-central-1 → s3.us-central-1.wasabisys.com
eu-central-1 → s3.eu-central-1.wasabisys.com
ap-northeast-1 → s3.ap-northeast-1.wasabisys.com

Your region is shown on the bucket in the console and in the bucket's details. For the complete, current list of regions and their service URLs, see Wasabi's Service URL Endpoints documentation.

Connect it to storafleet

Screenshot: Storafleet's Create Fleet wizard with this provider selected and the endpoint + keys filled in — the step that unsticks a first-timer.

You now have everything storafleet needs: the bucket name, the region, the endpoint URL, and your Access Key and Secret Key. Head to Connect Wasabi to add the bucket as a Fleet using the access-key + custom-endpoint path.

Once it's connected, the Migration guide walks you through copying objects from another Fleet into Wasabi — so you can move to flat, predictable storage without downtime.

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