Top 6 Advantages of Wasabi Backup for MSPs

What Is Wasabi Cloud Storage?

Wasabi has revolutionized the cloud storage landscape since its inception in 2017. At a time when AWS S3 and GCP Storage were the dominant players, Wasabi entered the market with a mission – to provide affordable and high-performance cloud storage. It began with a few data centers but quickly expanded to cater to its growing user base.

Today, Wasabi boasts data centers across regions like US Central, US West, Europe (Amsterdam, London, Paris), and Asia (Tokyo, Osaka). These strategic locations ensure that MSPs, in particular, have the flexibility to choose data centers that best serve their clients. Wasabi is a very affordable cloud storage option for pairing with your own branded MSP backup software.

WholesaleBackup offers a very popular Wasabi backup software option that integrates directly into the cloud backup platform. As an MSP or Reseller, all you need to do is to create an account with Wasabi and generate a set of API Keys, that will integrate with your custom branded wasabi backup software, through your WholesaleBackup Reseller Portal, where you can remotely build, manage, monitor, your deployed backup agents installed on your customer’s workstations and servers. Here’s a link to quickly set up a free trial.

Why Should MSPs Consider Wasabi?

As an MSP, data storage is at the core of your business, and Wasabi offers compelling reasons to make it your preferred choice:

1. Cost-Effective Pricing:

Wasabi’s pricing model is a game-changer. At just $5.99 per TB/month with a Pay As You Go option, it’s approximately 80% cheaper than Amazon S3. This pricing structure empowers MSPs to maximize their profits and explore new revenue streams without compromising on quality. which they state is “Cloud storage pricing that is 80% less than Amazon S3“. [wasabi]

If you look at GCP storage pricing depending on the location since the prices range from $0.020 to $0.036 depending on the region you are paying anywhere from $20.00 to $36.00 per TB.

That being said AWS S3 and GCP storage both perform very well, have more regions, networks, and are not experiencing any growing pains. They have been a solid choice for backup providers for over 15 years.

WholesaleBackup has noted that the Wasabi backup software option has been the most popular selection for its network of channel partners, resellers, and business partners. If you are looking to retain more earnings, or start creating new streams of revenue for your existing business, this combination will deliver that period.

2. No Egress Charges

Wasabi explains that – “Most leading cloud providers allow their customers to input data into the cloud for free. However, when that data is retrieved from the cloud, these providers will then charge large fees; this is what’s known as a data egress.”

Unlike some cloud providers, Wasabi doesn’t hit you with unexpected egress charges. You can upload data freely, and when it’s time to recover, there are no hidden fees. This transparent pricing ensures your profitability remains intact.

When you are offering cloud backup and recovery services, every day the backup service will be uploading new encrypted file blocks from the changed data, and just like Wasabi pointed out – “most will not charge you for this”. However, when you are in need to recover the data, which would typically be a large volume of data, especially if you consider the size of a common business’s file server, those egress fees can really start to add up cutting into your profits. With the Wasabi backup option for WholesaleBackup, you’ll never have to worry about losing money from restoring customers’ data.

3. Speed & Performance

Wasabi understands the importance of speed in data backup and recovery. Their network offers impressive upload/download speeds. Additionally, Wasabi provides a built-in speed test feature within its dashboard, allowing you to optimize performance based on your target region.

As with any cloud-based storage, you will have varying levels of upload/download speeds available, then you need to take into account how far the data center or regions is where your bucket resides. In addition to considering the local throughput speeds of the network and client location where the backups/restores will be occurring. One of the nice features of Wasabi is that it offers a speed test right from its own console dashboard, you can select a target region and run a quick throughput test. Here you can see that the service was using all of my available bandwidth to the Portland, Oregon region.

4. Robust Data Protection

Your clients’ data is their lifeline, and it deserves the utmost protection. With Wasabi, you get secure and redundant data centers certified for SOC-2, ISO 27001, PCI, and HIPAA compliance. Coupled with WholesaleBackup’s MSP backup software, which employs end-to-end HTTPS encryption and file separation into encrypted blocks, you can assure your clients of top-notch data security.

Additionally, the MSP backup software by WholesaleBackup implements several layers of protection, using end-to-end HTTPS encryption, all backed up files of data separated into encrypted blocks, in the storage vault. You can also enable another local on-site vault that syncs to the offsite vault. The software by design will not allow contamination of backup data to the offsite vault. So when ransomware encrypts the file system, the backup software will not send anything offsite. You can then install the backup software on a clean system and start restoring the data from the remote vault in a matter of minutes.

5. Transparent Pricing

Wasabi’s pricing is refreshingly transparent, with $5.99 per TB/month and no egress or API request fees. They also offer Reserved Capacity Storage for even greater savings. WholesaleBackup aligns with this straightforward approach, making it easy for MSPs to calculate their returns without any hidden charges.

WholesaleBackup utilizes this practice also, making it simple for its resellers and partners to calculate their returns, there are zero up-charges, middle-man, or hidden fees, only a month-to-month subscription, which includes all of the features.

6. It’s Mission.

Wasabi’s mission is clear – to provide simple, affordable, fast, and secure data storage. They pledge to be the cheapest, fastest, most secure, and reliable cloud storage globally. By partnering with Wasabi, MSPs align themselves with this mission, ensuring that they deliver top-tier storage solutions to their clients.

Ready to Elevate Your MSP Business with Wasabi Backup?

If you’re an MSP looking to enhance your data storage capabilities and drive profitability, Wasabi Backup from WholesaleBackup is your answer. The simplicity of setting up a trial and obtaining API Keys for your custom-branded MSP backup platform for Windows and macOS is unmatched.

Get started now on a fully-featured all-inclusive no-risk trial, we also have an article about How to build a successful Wasabi backup service.