New Fastly Object Storage capabilities and a new storage region

Object Storage
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Hey everyone :waving_hand:

We have a few updates we wanted to share with you all.

  • New storage region in Frankfurt, Germany. The region name is eu-central-1

  • New bucket lifecycle rules! Bucket lifecycle rules allow you to automate the management of your objects’ expiration. By configuring lifecycle policies, you can instruct Fastly Object Storage to automatically delete objects after a specified number of days. This helps you manage storage costs and optimize bucket capacity without requiring manual intervention.

    • Fastly supports S3-compatible bucket lifecycle policies via the PUT, GET, and DELETE lifecycle API operations.

  • Transfer data with Direct Fetch: Direct Fetch enables you to transfer your data directly into Fastly Object Storage. This method takes an optimized approach that helps you copy data directly from a source S3 provider to your Fastly bucket, bypassing the need to download and re-upload the data through a client application.

Here’s how it works:

  • A client makes an S3-compatible PutObject or UploadPart request to your Fastly Object Storage bucket with an empty payload.

  • The Object Storage service reads the location using the URL provided in the fastly-object-storage-source-url header.

  • The object, or part, is fetched from the provided URL and synchronously written into your Object Storage bucket.

TIP: Because the object is copied directly over Fastly’s network, you can use pre-signed URLs in the source header to seamlessly migrate assets from private external buckets without exposing your long-term credentials.

Visit the blog and our documentation to help you get started.

Drop a comment :backhand_index_pointing_down: and let us know how we can help or suggest other improvements we can make to Fastly Object Storage so that your experience is the best it can be.

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I really hope I see this a few hours before now! (I literally just finished moving a 300G bucket from B2 to Fastly)

Btw any chance that conditional PUTs can be added?

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Oh that’s awesome that you’re moving buckets over! If you’re moving more hopefully you can try out Direct Fetch. I’ve filed a feature request for the conditional PUTs. Thank you for sending it over. :slight_smile: