Azure Blob Storage vs Wasabi
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Azure Blob Storage and Wasabi.
Quick Verdict
3.9/5
Azure Blob Storage
0 reviews
4.0/5
Wasabi
0 reviews
Wasabi is rated higher (4.0 vs 3.9). Microsoft Azure's object storage service for storing massive amounts of unstructured data like documents, images, and backups. Built for enterprises needing reliable, cost-effective cloud storage with compliance options. S3-compatible cloud storage priced at a flat $7.99 per TB per month with no fees for downloads or API requests, widely used for backups.
Azure Blob Storage Scalable cloud object storage for unstructured data at enterprise scale | Wasabi Hot cloud storage at cold storage prices | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.9 (0 reviews) | 4.0 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | usage-based | paid |
| Starting price | From $0.0184/mo✓ | From $7.99/mo |
| Best for | Microsoft-centric enterprises and Azure-native analytics/backup workloads needing compliant, tiered object storage with global residency | Backup, offsite copy, and media-archive storage where data is written once, kept for months or years, and read occasionally — especially at 500 GB and above |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ✓ | |
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ✓ | |
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | — | 16 regions: US (N. Virginia x2, Texas, Oregon, California), Canada (Toronto), Netherlands (Amsterdam), Germany (Frankfurt), UK x2, France (Paris), Italy (Milan), Japan x2 (Tokyo, Osaka), Singapore, Australia (Sydney) |
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| Tags | free tiers3 compatibleapi accesseu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenterterraform provider | s3 compatibleeu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenterapi accessgdpr compliant |
| Visit Azure Blob Storage → | Visit Wasabi → | |
Azure Blob Storage
Pros
- + Four cost-optimized access tiers with fully published per-GB and per-operation prices
- + Mature redundancy ladder (LRS through RA-GZRS) with 11 nines claimed durability on LRS
- + Deep Azure integration: Entra ID auth, Private Link, lifecycle management, immutable storage
- + Reserved capacity discounts up to roughly a third on committed storage
- + Global footprint with EU, US, and APAC data residency plus sovereign clouds
Cons
- - No native S3 API — S3-designed tooling needs a third-party proxy
- - Egress, retrieval, and early-deletion fees often dwarf the capacity cost
- - Portal, RBAC, and account-kind surface area is a real learning curve
- - Cool/Cold/Archive tiers carry lower availability targets (99%) and minimum retention periods
- - SLA is 99.9% with capped service credits, not an availability guarantee
Wasabi
Pros
- + Flat $7.99/TB/month with zero egress and API request charges — bills are predictable to the dollar
- + S3-compatible API with broad backup-software support (Veeam, rclone, Synology, MSP360 and others)
- + 16 regions with per-bucket region pinning, covering US, EU, and APAC data-residency needs
- + Credit-backed 99.9% uptime SLA with a published error-rate measurement methodology
- + No cold-tier latency: everything is hot storage, so restores are immediate
Cons
- - 90-day minimum storage duration — early deletion or overwriting incurs Timed Deleted Storage charges
- - 1 TB minimum monthly charge makes small datasets uneconomical
- - Fair-use policy implicitly caps monthly egress near stored volume — not a CDN origin play
- - Single storage tier only; no cheap cold class for rarely-retrieved archives
- - Basic support only on Pay-as-You-Go; Premium support is tied to Reserved Capacity contracts
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