Integrate Scaleway FREE 75GB Storage with NextCloud and ShareX

Scaleway is providing  75GB of free storage and external outgoing transfer to Internet. It is fully compatible with S3 protocol. This should give us an opportunity to mount it into NextCloud as an external storage.

In this post, I am going to describe the steps to integrate Scaleway Object Storage with NextCloud and ShareX together. 

Introduction

Previously I have done this similar integration for Backblaze in following post;

• Create Your Own Cloud Photo Storage Site in BackBlaze B2 Using Cloudflare and ShareX

But that was directly using ShareX upload to BackBlaze B2 free tier storage. There are quite a few quota for the traffic and only 10G storage free to use. 

Scaleway does provide more generous free tier solution which has 75GB for free. Lets see what they have in their free tier storage:

Storage Price from Scaleway Object Storage:

Type of consumption	Price
Data storage	75 GB free every month then €0.0000134/GB/hour or €0.01/GB/month
Incoming data transfer	Free
Intra-regional* outgoing data transfer to other products from the same region	Free
Inter-regional* and external outgoing data transfer to other products from a different region and the Internet	75 GB free every month then €0.01/GB
Fee per request	n/a
Archiving objects Object Storage (Standard) → C14 Cold Storage (Glacier)	Free

You also can find pricing from Scaleway website for other services provided by them.

Generate A New Scaleway API Key

1  Sign Up an Scaleway.com Account. 

2  Generate a new API Key from Credential Page for NextCloud.

3  Get Access Key and Secret key

4  Create a Bucket in Object Storage and Check Bucket Settings

Make share your bucket visibility is Public.

You will need following information:

• Bucket Endpoint

5  Upload one photo into your bucket and get public link

For example, I got following public link from a phone under folder photos:

https://test-photos.s3.fr-par.scw.cloud/photos/test-nextcloud-2-scaleway.png

NextCloud Configuration

1  Add a AmazonS3 external Storage from Administration -> External storage page.

2  Enable Sharing on this external storage

ShareX Configuration for NextCloud

1  Configure Destination Settings for ownCloud/NextCloud. 

2  Change Image Uploader destination to ownCloud/NextCloud. 

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References

• Create Your Own Cloud Photo Storage Site in BackBlaze B2 Using Cloudflare and ShareX