Your media library shouldn't
bleed money on delivery.
S3-compatible object storage, $4.99/TB flat, $0 egress. Store the library and deliver at scale without egress fees eating margin.
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Storage is cheap. Delivery is the bill.
Media storage pricing looks manageable until someone streams it. The egress line grows proportionally to usage — exactly the direction the business wants to go.
Storage looks cheap. Delivery does not.
A 10 TB media library on AWS S3 costs $236/month in storage. Delivering that same 10 TB to viewers once costs $921 in egress. Deliver it five times and the egress bill is $4,403. The library is not the cost.
More viewers means a higher storage bill.
Egress fees scale with audience. A viral clip, a successful release, a live event — the moments that make media valuable are the moments the storage bill peaks. The business model works against itself.
Egress eats the delivery margin.
For streaming platforms, CDN delivery costs are already a significant operating cost. Adding $0.09/GB in origin egress on top of CDN fees makes the storage-to-delivery economics difficult to model profitably.
10 TB library. 50 TB delivered per month.
Same workload, six providers. Monthly storage for the library plus egress for 50 TB of viewer delivery.
| Provider | 10 TB storage | 50 TB egress | Total / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS S3 Standard | $236 | $4,403 | $4,639 |
| Google Cloud Storage | $205 | $5,222 | $5,427 |
| Azure Blob (Hot) | $184 | $4,096 | $4,280 |
| Wasabi | $70 | $0 | $70 |
| Backblaze B2 | $60 | $0 | $60 |
| Fil OneYou | $50 | $0 | $50 |
AWS S3 Standard us-east-1, GCP Standard, Azure Blob Hot East US — public US rate cards Q2 2026. AWS storage: 10,240 GB × $0.023 = $235.52. AWS egress 50 TB: 10,240 GB × $0.09 + 40,960 GB × $0.085 = $921.60 + $3,481.60 = $4,403.20. GCP egress 50 TB: 10,240 × $0.12 + 40,960 × $0.11 = $5,734.40. Azure egress 50 TB: 10,240 × $0.087 + 40,960 × $0.083 = $890.88 + $3,399.68 = $4,290.56. Wasabi $6.99/TB. Backblaze B2 $6/TB. Fil One $4.99/TB, $0 egress.
A media origin that doesn't bill per view.
Zero egress fees
Every viewer fetch is a read from origin storage. On Fil One those reads cost nothing. The delivery margin is not eaten by the storage provider.
Store the full library
At $4.99/TB flat, a 10 TB media library costs $50/month. A 100 TB library costs $499. The rate per TB does not increase with library size.
S3-compatible origin
Media players, CDNs, and delivery pipelines that read from S3 origins connect without modification. Swap the endpoint; the delivery stack does not change.
Predictable delivery cost
Storage × $4.99. The number of views, downloads, or streams in a month does not change the storage bill. Viral moments are not billing events.
One rate. $4.99/TB/month.
Storage. That is the whole bill. Delivery volume does not change the invoice. Viral moments are not billing events.
No credit card required · No egress fees · Connects in minutes