Rakurs.S3
S3-compatible · 99.95% SLA · data centers in the EU and Russia

Storage for people
who shoot in terabytes

Upload originals, RAW files and 4K masters to object storage — then hand your client a single, tidy link to view them. No thumb drives, no “please re-send, it wouldn’t open”, no consumer clouds full of ads.

  • Freeinbound traffic
  • AES-256encryption at rest
  • 3 copiesof every object
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Features

Built around the way a shoot actually works

Not just another drive in the cloud, but storage that knows a shoot is followed by culling, retouching, delivery to the client and an archive that has to last for years.

You never run out of space

The bucket grows with your archive: from your first wedding to hundreds of terabytes. You pay only for the gigabytes actually stored, billed daily.

Uploads are free

Inbound traffic costs nothing. Dump an entire memory card: multipart upload handles 100+ GB files and resumes where the connection dropped.

Fast delivery over CDN

Previews and video reach the client from the nearest edge location. A 300-photo gallery opens in seconds, even on mobile data.

Cold archive costs less

Lifecycle rules move projects older than 90 days to the cold class on their own — the price drops, the files stay exactly where they were.

Versions and a trash bin

Versioning keeps previous revisions of a file, and deleted objects sit in the bin for 30 days. An accidental Delete is no longer a disaster.

S3 compatible

Anything that speaks Amazon S3 works: Lightroom plugins, Capture One, rclone, Cyberduck, Transmit, DaVinci Resolve, your own website.

Technology

Encryption and durability by default

Footage from a shoot is personal data belonging to your clients. We treat it the way a bank treats transactions.

AES-256 at rest (SSE-S3 / SSE-C)

Every object is encrypted before it is written. Keys live in a separate KMS environment and are rotated; bring your own key and the file becomes unreadable even to us without it.

TLS 1.3 in transit

Every API request and every client gallery goes over HTTPS with modern cipher suites, HSTS and downgrade protection. Requests are signed with AWS Signature V4.

Presigned URLs with a TTL

The link you send a client is a temporary signed URL, read-only and time-limited. Once it expires access closes by itself, and the file stays with you.

Erasure coding and 3 replicas

Each object is split and spread across independent nodes in different racks. Losing a disk, a server or a whole rack costs no data; integrity is verified by checksums.

Getting started

Five minutes from sign-up to your first link

You don’t need a sysadmin and you don’t need to learn how clouds work. But if you want to, there is a full S3 API waiting.

01

Create an account

Email and password. You get 50 GB free forever right away — enough for a couple of projects to test the speed.

02

Create a bucket

One bucket for the whole studio, or a separate one per client. You pick the storage region and the class: hot or archive.

03

Get your keys and endpoint

The console issues an Access Key, a Secret Key and your own address s3-{token}.rakurs-cdn.org — a 16-character token that belongs to your account alone.

04

Send the link

Right-click the project folder → “Share”. Set the expiry, a password and download rights, then hand it to the client.

Your endpoint
s3-k7f3qm9x2wd8v6ba.rakurs-cdn.org

Every account gets its own subdomain: token is 16 random characters issued at sign-up. Nobody can guess someone else’s address, and your buckets never share a hostname with anyone else’s.

Mirror domains
s3-{token}.rakurs-cdn.orgs3-{token}.rakurs-cdn.coms3-{token}.rakurs-cdn.net

The token is identical on all three domains. If one hostname becomes unreachable, you just swap the domain in your config — keys and data stay the same.

# 1. Configure once
rclone config create rakurs s3 \
  provider=Other \
  endpoint=https://s3-k7f3qm9x2wd8v6ba.rakurs-cdn.org \
  access_key_id=RK... secret_access_key=****

# 2. Upload the shoot folder (resumes after a dropped connection)
rclone copy ./2026-08-wedding rakurs:studio/2026-08-wedding \
  --transfers 8 --progress

# 3. A 30-day link for the client
rclone link rakurs:studio/2026-08-wedding --expire 720h
For the photographer’s clients

The client opens a link — and everything simply works

No sign-ups, no apps to install, no “download the 40 GB archive in parts”. One page, your logo, a clean grid and a big Download button.

No registrationThe link opens in any browser, including on a phone.
One-click selectionThe client hearts the frames they want retouched — you get a ready-made list of files.
Comments on a frame“A bit brighter here” is written right under the photo instead of getting lost in chat.
Download as an archiveSelected photos are zipped on the fly, and video streams without any waiting.
Your brandYour logo, your color, your own domain like photos.yourstudio.com — instead of somebody else’s cloud.
Protected workPassword, link expiry, a watermark on previews and downloads blocked until you are paid.

Your first 50 GB — free, forever

No card, no sales call. Upload one project and see how fast it opens on the client’s side.

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