video surveillance · distributed S3 · no egress

Stop deciding which footage
you can afford to keep.

Retention should be set by what the law and the investigation need, not by what the storage line item tolerates. Park years of footage at a flat per-TB rate, pull an incident out without an egress meter running, and place the whole archive in the jurisdiction your policy requires. Then point your existing S3 bridge at it.

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$0.006/GB-mo$0 egress11 nines durability30-day minimum retention
● live · distributed storage network

~$5/TB/mo
Long-retention footage

$0 egress
Free incident exports

S3-native
Behind your VMS bridge

11 nines
Durability, actively maintained · see the math →

Footage economics

Write-heavy, long-lived, egress-painful on review.

Surveillance footage is continuous sequential ingest that only grows. The pain hits when you export an incident or rehydrate a date range — that’s when egress fees bite. On XNS, review and export are free.

100 TB archive · 20 TB incident exportXNSTypical hyperscaler
Storage (100,000 GB)~$600/mo~$2,300/mo
Export / review (20 TB)$0~$1,800 egress
Minimum retention30-day, no separate feeVaries by vendor

Illustrative. Hyperscaler figures from public pricing — verify before publish. XNS bills per TB of your data — the erasure-coding parity that protects it is included in the rate, not charged on top.

Your metadata

They encrypt your files. They keep your metadata. We keep neither.

Who downloads what, from where, how often — that record is worth more than the data, and 61% of government data demands target it. Every other cloud holds yours. XNS has no access to your data or your metadata. Nobody does.

Virtual Private Datacenter

Pin footage by jurisdiction.

Surveillance data often must stay in a country or region. Compose your provider set by geography and jurisdiction — then attach your bridge to that VPD.

Security integrators and MSPs need per-client isolation and residency control. Start from the live map and build a provider set that matches the deployment's legal and geographic requirements.

Geo-diversity Jurisdiction Per-client isolation Durability
VPD composer● composing
Jurisdictionselected
Geographic spreadmulti-region
Durabilityhigh
Your provider setcomposed

Integration

The S3 target behind your VMS bridge.

Most VMS platforms write to a file system, not S3 directly. XNS is the offsite S3 tier behind a cloud storage bridge or gateway appliance — the same pattern Wasabi and AWS use in surveillance deployments. Here’s what your bridge can rely on.

Standard S3 API

Multipart upload, virtual-hosted and path-style addressing — exactly what a storage bridge exercises. No custom integration to build or maintain.

live

Presigned URLs

Hand an investigator or insurer a time-boxed link to a single clip — no account, no shared credentials, no full-archive access.

live

Object Lock for evidence

Write-once-read-many retention proves footage hasn’t been altered after capture — chain-of-custody integrity for incidents that go to court.

live

Parallel reads

Large exports stream from many nodes at once — built for pulling a date range back fast when an incident needs review.

live

Per-client IAM

Security integrators run many sites. Scoped users, roles, and policies via the standard AWS IAM query API keep every client isolated.

live

30-day minimum retention

Low 30-day floor. No minimum-duration charge on data you delete after that.

live

How we compare

Built for retention. Free on export.

Surveillance storage is a holding cost — until you need the footage back.

XNSAWS S3WasabiBackblaze B2
Storage / GB-mo$0.006$0.023$0.0078$0.00695
Egress on export$0, uncappedMeteredCapped 1:13× then metered
Minimum retention30-day—90 daysNone
VMS bridgeAny S3 bridgeStorage GatewaySurveillance CloudPartner
Compose your own (VPD)YesNoNoNo

Figures from public pricing pages · verify before publish · 2026-06 · XNS bills per TB of your data — the erasure-coding parity that protects it is included in the rate, not charged on top.

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The full story

Everything you need to go from evaluation to production.

How it works →The Relayer, erasure coding, and your Virtual Private Datacenter.S3 compatibility →Head-to-head S3 feature matrix vs the field.Eleven nines →Durability, computed — not rounded up.What's new →Everything built since you last looked.Surveillance & VMS →The deep-dive on storing video archives on XNS.

Offsite tier for your VMS.

Longer retention without buying more on-prem disk. Get keys, point your bridge at your own XNS endpoint, and store on a network you can watch.

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