Ingest should be fast. Most teams already pay for fast. But in practice, it rarely works that way.
DITs and Workflow Supervisors use everything from multi-bonded 5G routers to gigabit and even multi-gig fiber to push content to the cloud from remote locations—yet they still see upload speeds crawl. The issue isn’t their connection. It’s that the farther they are from a centralized cloud region, the more unstable, inconsistent, and unpredictable their upload performance becomes.
AWS, GCP, and Azure force uploads into single-region choke points. Long routes, congestion when half of North America pushes its nightly backups, and overloaded regional endpoints all steal the speed teams are paying for. The result: ingest becomes the slowest part of the workflow, causing productions to slip schedules and go over budget.
The Storj media platform changes this.
With a massively parallel, globally distributed architecture, Storj consistently saturates available bandwidth anywhere in the world—as validated in the IDS performance study. No region management. No replication games. No costly accelerators. With Storj, your line speed becomes your ingest speed. Full stop. And that performance becomes the foundation for something bigger: Storj Production Cloud.
Production Cloud is a new way for teams to store, access, and collaborate on media in the cloud—built for cloud-centric workflows where apps come to your media. Fast, regionless ingest is where it all starts. The moment footage hits Storj, editors, colorists, MAMs, and automated workflows can access it globally without downloading, syncing, or replicating.
This is how ingest is supposed to work in a cloud-first production environment.
Where ingest breaks down today.
Every workflow starts the moment the camera stops rolling. But centralized clouds force painful limitations:
- Single-region endpoints choke long before the user’s connection does.
- Performance swings wildly depending on distance and congestion.
- Cloud storage becomes the bottleneck, not your connection.
- Teams build expensive workarounds like shipping drives or provisioning dedicated circuits.
This cascades into the rest of the workflow:
- Editors wait longer.
- DITs spend more time monitoring transfers than they should.
- Ingest workflows become a maze of scripts and workarounds.
- Footage stays vulnerable on drives far longer than necessary.
Teams end up adapting to the cloud instead of the cloud adapting to the workflow.
Get the full speed you’re already paying for with Storj.
The breakthrough isn’t shaving a small percentage off an upload time. It’s giving you the full performance your network can deliver.
Storj encrypts files, splits them into many pieces, and uploads them in parallel across the closest nodes in its global network. Instead of pushing a massive object into one congested region, hundreds of nodes share the load.
This distributed design delivers what the hyperscalers can’t:
- Full-bandwidth saturation for large files.
- Massive parallelism that keeps ingest fast, even with congestion or long distances.
- Regionless ingest with no performance cliffs.
- Predictable large-file performance day after day.
That’s why the IDS study measured Storj as 11.5% faster on large-file throughput than the major hyperscalers, but the bigger truth is that Storj actually hits the user’s line rate. The centralized clouds rarely do.
If you have 1 Gbps up, Storj ingests at 1 Gbps.
If you have 5 Gbps up, Storj ingests at 5 Gbps.
If the connection fluctuates, Storj parallelizes around it.
Your bandwidth finally becomes usable and your ingest becomes part of a globally accessible, cloud-native workflow in Production Cloud.
Works with the tools you already rely on.
You don’t need new software. Storj simply accelerates the tools and workflows you already trust.
Storj plugs directly into:
If your workflow uses S3, it already works with Storj. You keep your tools—now with the performance they were designed to deliver, fully integrated into Production Cloud for global collaboration.
What this means on set.
DITs finally get the speed they can count on. Parallel transfers mean Storj uses every bit of available bandwidth, even on unstable or variable connections.
That means:
- Faster offload to the cloud from on-set storage.
- Faster movement of dailies into post.
- Smaller risk windows.
- Faster handoff from set to post.
You watch footage move—not stall.
What this means for Workflow Supervisors.
Your ingest pipeline becomes dramatically simpler.
- No region planning.
- No replication tuning.
- No endpoint congestion.
- No specialized hardware or gateways required.
- No multi-region egress costs.
Just S3 credentials, predictable throughput, instant global availability — and a clean handoff into Production Cloud workflows: editing, dailies, review, MAM indexing, automation, or AI.
Storj adapts to your pipeline — not the other way around.
Ingest isn’t the bottleneck anymore.
After years of living with slow ingest, teams assume it’s inevitable. It isn’t.
The Storj platform’s distributed architecture and parallel uploads turn ingest into a fast, predictable, full-line-speed entry point for the entire workflow. You get the speed you’re already paying for, editors get assets sooner, and Production Cloud ensures your teams can work wherever they are.
Want to see this in action? Start with the All Things Techie IBC walkthrough, then explore how Production Cloud brings regionless ingest and instant global access together in one platform. And if you’re ready to accelerate your ingest workflow, schedule a meeting with our team — we’ll walk you through how Storj performs with your tools, your footage, and your bandwidth.
