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Storage Providers

Safebucket supports multiple storage providers. The storage provider is directly exposed to the user — files are uploaded and downloaded without passing through the API. Communication is secured via signed URLs delivered by the API.

Dedicated providers are event-driven and fully optimized. You can also use tested S3-compatible provider via the Generic S3 type, though with less efficient.

Dedicated providers

Dedicated providers receive real-time event notifications for uploads, deletions and enabling efficient trash management via lifecycle policies. Prefer a dedicated provider when one is available.

Dedicated Providers​

  • AWS S3 — AWS cloud storage with SQS event notifications
  • Google Cloud Storage — GCP-native storage with Pub/Sub event notifications
  • MinIO — Self-hosted S3-compatible storage
  • RustFS — High-performance self-hosted storage written in Rust

Generic​

  • Generic S3 — Any S3-compatible provider (Hetzner, Storj, etc.)