# New Fastly Object Storage capabilities and a new storage region **URL:** \ **Category:** Object Storage\ **Created:** [September 8, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://community.fastly.com/t/new-fastly-object-storage-capabilities-and-a-new-storage-region/4493 "2026-09-08T17:22:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tgretto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.fastly.com/tgretto/32/365_2.png) [@tgretto](https://community.fastly.com/u/tgretto)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://community.fastly.com/t/new-fastly-object-storage-capabilities-and-a-new-storage-region/4493/1 "2026-09-08T17:22:25Z")
Hey everyone 👋 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. - 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](https://www.fastly.com/blog/accelerate-migrations-introducing-direct-fetch-fastly-object-storage) and our [documentation](https://www.fastly.com/documentation/guides/platform/object-storage/working-with-object-storage/?_gl=1*ezh4fa*_gcl_au*MTU4NDM0MDg0MS4xNzcxODY3MTY0#managing-object-storage-buckets-and-objects) to help you get started. Drop a comment 👇 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. ---
**Author:** ![stepbrobd](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.fastly.com/stepbrobd/32/1091_2.png) [@stepbrobd](https://community.fastly.com/u/stepbrobd)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2026, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.fastly.com/t/new-fastly-object-storage-capabilities-and-a-new-storage-region/4493/2 "2026-09-08T18:55:47Z")
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? > [@Add support for conditional writes in Object Storage](https://community.fastly.com/t/add-support-for-conditional-writes-in-object-storage/4492): > > It seems Fastly Object Storage currently does not have support for this. A PUT with If-None-Match: \* on existing key will return 200 and overwrite the content These might be related [Conditional writes and Terraform state locking are now supported](https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/object-storage/#conditional-writes-and-terraform-state-locking-are-now-supported)[https://feature-request.scaleway.com/posts/1133/support-conditional-writes-in-object-storage](https://feature-request.scaleway.com/posts/1133/support-conditional-writes-in-object-storage) ---
**Author:** ![tgretto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.fastly.com/tgretto/32/365_2.png) [@tgretto](https://community.fastly.com/u/tgretto)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2026, 5:53pm UTC](https://community.fastly.com/t/new-fastly-object-storage-capabilities-and-a-new-storage-region/4493/3 "2026-09-09T17:53:14Z")
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. 🙂