---
title: "Object Replication With the Wasabi S3 API"
slug: "object-replication-api"
updated: 2026-03-18T15:03:15Z
published: 2026-03-18T15:03:15Z
---

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# Object Replication With the Wasabi S3 API

Object replication enables you to replicate or copy your data between Wasabi regions to protect against ransomware attacks, malicious data manipulation, natural disasters, or even accidental deletion. Object replication enables you to replicate/copy objects from an active storage bucket (source) to one or more different buckets (destination).

## PUT Object Replication

Wasabi supports functionality for replication configuration with:

- One source and one destination bucket (without filters)
- One source and one destination bucket (with filters)
- One source and multiple destination buckets

In addition, Wasabi supports functionality for updating an existing replication configuration.

### Limitations

Wasabi does not replicate:

- Objects in the source bucket for which the bucket owner lacks replication permissions
- Objects created via FTP requests
- Objects encrypted with customer-provided keys (SSE)
- Composed objects
- Objects created with `CopyObject` (`copy-source`)
- Objects created by the S3 `Move` API.

### Replication Configuration With One Source and One Destination Bucket (Without Filters)

```json
PUT https://s3.<region>.wasabisys.com/my-replication-source?replication
```

Request body:

```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ReplicationConfiguration xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
    <Role></Role>
    <Rule>
        <ID>job1</ID>
        <Priority>1</Priority>
        <Status>Enabled</Status>
        <DeleteMarkerReplication>
            <Status>Enabled</Status>
        </DeleteMarkerReplication>
        <Destination>
            <Bucket>arn:aws:s3:::my-replication-destination</Bucket>
        </Destination>
        <Filter>

      </Filter>
    </Rule>
</ReplicationConfiguration>
```

Status: 200 OK

Notes:

1. Make sure both the source and destination buckets match the same bucket-property while scheduling the replication configuration.
  1. Non-versioned source —> Non-versioned destination
  2. Versioned source —> Versioned destination
2. Only new objects (uploaded after scheduling the replication configuration) will be replicated to the destination bucket.
3. To replicate the existing objects from the source to the destination, you need to initiate the following API only after scheduling the replication configuration.

```json
PUT https://s3.<region>.wasabisys.com/my-replication-source?manifestCreateAndProcess
```

Response body:

```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<ManifestCreateAndProcess>jobId : DHZsWBhwMUg9euZyFg7eahv4</ManifestCreateAndProcess>
```

Status: 200 OK

### Replication Configuration With One Source and One Destination Bucket (With Filters)

In this example, objects that satisfy both conditions (prefix as AA- and tag “key1-value1”) will be replicated to the destination bucket.

```json
PUT https://s3.<region>.wasabisys.com/my-replication-source?replication
```

Request body:

```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ReplicationConfiguration xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
   <Role></Role>
   <Rule>
      <ID>job1</ID>
      <Priority>1</Priority>
      <Status>Enabled</Status>
      <DeleteMarkerReplication>
         <Status>Disabled</Status>
      </DeleteMarkerReplication>
      <Destination>
         <Bucket>arn:aws:s3:::my-replication-destination</Bucket>
      </Destination>
      <Filter>
           <And>
                <Prefix>AA-</Prefix>
                <Tag>
                     <Key>key1</Key>
                     <Value>value1</Value>
                </Tag>
           </And>
      </Filter>
   </Rule>
</ReplicationConfiguration>
```

Status: 200 OK

### Replication Configuration With One Source and Multiple Destinations

```json
PUT https://s3.<region>.wasabisys.com/my-replication-source?replication
```

Request body:

```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ReplicationConfiguration xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
   <Role></Role>
   <Rule>
      <ID>job1</ID>
      <Priority>1</Priority>
      <Status>Enabled</Status>
      <DeleteMarkerReplication>
         <Status>Enabled</Status>
      </DeleteMarkerReplication>
      <Destination>
         <Bucket>arn:aws:s3:::my-replication-destination-1</Bucket>
      </Destination>
      <Filter></Filter>
   </Rule>
   <Rule>
      <ID>job2</ID>
      <Priority>1</Priority>
      <Status>Enabled</Status>
      <DeleteMarkerReplication>
         <Status>Enabled</Status>
      </DeleteMarkerReplication>
      <Destination>
         <Bucket>arn:aws:s3:::my-replication-destination-2</Bucket>
      </Destination>
      <Filter></Filter>
   </Rule>
</ReplicationConfiguration>
```

Status: 200 OK

### Updating an Existing Replication Configuration

The replication configuration will replace an existing configuration. In this example, an existing replication configuration maps job2 to my-replication-destination-2, and the update changes the replication configuration to map job2 to my-replication-destination-3.

```json
PUT https://s3.<region>.wasabisys.com/my-replication-source?replication
```

Request body:

```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ReplicationConfiguration xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
   <Role></Role>
   <Rule>
      <ID>job1</ID>
      <Priority>1</Priority>
      <Status>Enabled</Status>
      <DeleteMarkerReplication>
         <Status>Enabled</Status>
      </DeleteMarkerReplication>
      <Destination>
         <Bucket>arn:aws:s3:::my-replication-destination-1</Bucket>
      </Destination>
      <Filter></Filter>
   </Rule>
   <Rule>
      <ID>job2</ID>
      <Priority>1</Priority>
      <Status>Enabled</Status>
      <DeleteMarkerReplication>
         <Status>Enabled</Status>
      </DeleteMarkerReplication>
      <Destination>
         <Bucket>arn:aws:s3:::my-replication-destination-3</Bucket>
      </Destination>
      <Filter></Filter>
   </Rule>
</ReplicationConfiguration>
```

Status: 200 OK

## GET Object Replication

```json
GET https://s3.<region>.wasabisys.com/my-replication-source?replication
```

Response body:

```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ReplicationConfiguration xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
   <Role></Role>
   <Rule>
      <ID>job1</ID>
      <Priority>1</Priority>
      <Status>Enabled</Status>
      <DeleteMarkerReplication>
         <Status>Enabled</Status>
      </DeleteMarkerReplication>
      <Destination>
         <Bucket>arn:aws:s3:::my-replication-destination</Bucket>
      </Destination>
      <Filter></Filter>
   </Rule>
</ReplicationConfiguration>
```

Status: 200 OK

## DELETE Object Replication

You can delete the existing replication configuration of the bucket. This removes the entire replication configuration from the specified bucket.

```json
DELETE https://s3.<region>.wasabisys.com/my-replication-source?replication
```

Status: 204 No Content

Response body: No content