# How is performance when using S3 bucket as primary or external storage?

**URL:** <https://help.nextcloud.com/t/how-is-performance-when-using-s3-bucket-as-primary-or-external-storage/89518>\
**Category:** 🏷️ General\
**Tags:** external\_storage, s3\
**Created:** [August 11, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/how-is-performance-when-using-s3-bucket-as-primary-or-external-storage/89518 "2020-08-11T20:35:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 10:44am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/how-is-performance-when-using-s3-bucket-as-primary-or-external-storage/89518/6 "2020-08-12T10:44:19Z")

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for those who didn’t see this discussion:

> [@High AWS S3 costs due to Nextcloud requests](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/high-aws-s3-costs-due-to-nextcloud-requests/68687):
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> Hi! We started running Nextcloud App as a prebuilt-docker image in Univention Corporate Server. External (not primary) Storage for everything is AWS S3 and we have about 180 GB in our buckets. There are only less than 10 users, all using the Windows client or the web login. Files are not changed in the buckets externally, only by Nextcloud. We received the AWS bill for last month and it says: “Amazon Simple Storage Service EUC1-Requests-Tier1” ($0.0054 per 1,000 PUT, COPY, POST, or LIST requ…

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