Inside the New Wasabi API Reference Center: API-first in Action

If you’ve ever burned half a morning hunting for missing parameters or guessing your way through outdated API docs, then you know how much time bad documentation can steal from a good day. It breaks focus, delays releases, and leaves you chasing errors instead of building features.

That’s why we’ve rebuilt our developer documentation and tooling from the ground up with an API-first approach. Here’s what’s new, why it matters, and how the new Wasabi API Reference Center streamlines every step of development.

The new Wasabi API experience: faster, smarter, and interactive

Wasabi has always been about making cloud storage fast, predictable, and simple. Reliable integrations have always been a part of how we deliver on that mission. That’s why we’ve introduced the Wasabi API Reference Center, a unified, interactive environment that helps developers explore, test, and deploy our APIs.

The API Reference Center brings all of our API guides together in an intuitive, interactive portal, including APIs for our S3-compatible storage, WACM Connect, Account Control, Stats, and more.

A few highlights:

• Built-in code playgrounds embedded in key API guides, so you can try out requests directly in the browser

• Clear, up-to-date endpoint definitions, request/response structures, error codes, authentication mechanisms, and sample payloads

• Consistent structure, with naming, versioning, and clear evolution paths following modern API-first principles

• PDF exports for quick reference, plus cross-links for deeper exploration

We’ve also published a Postman Collection for Wasabi AiR and related APIs. It includes pre-filled requests, environment variables for API keys, and full sample flows from authentication to data queries. With it, you can:

• Import pre-configured requests with URL templates, headers, and body payloads.

• Use environment variables (e.g. base URL, API key) to simplify testing.

• Execute flows (authentication → resource creation → queries) end-to-end without hand-coding every request from scratch.

Combined, these updates make onboarding faster and experimentation friction-free.

Why API-first matters

Behind these documentation updates is a guiding principle called API-first. It’s the idea that you design and define your APIs before building the applications or tools that use them. That means starting with specifications, laying out endpoints, parameters, responses, and authentication, before writing any application logic. The API becomes the single, reliable foundation everything else is built on.

An API-first mindset pays off in a few important ways:

• Greater flexibility: When every application and integration connects through the same APIs, teams can add features or make changes independently, without breaking what’s already working.

• Higher consistency: Every endpoint, parameter, and behavior is defined once and reused everywhere, keeping systems predictable and easier to navigate.

• Faster onboarding and time to innovation: Detailed examples and live testing make it easy to understand how things work and start building right away.

• Easier maintenance: Built-in version control and backward compatibility help teams introduce updates without causing disruption downstream.

• Ecosystem growth: A clean, consistent API structure invites partners and the broader developer community to extend the platform with new tools and integrations.

API-first is more than a design philosophy; it’s what makes reliable, scalable development possible.

A better developer and partner experience

Most of us learn APIs by breaking things first. The API Resource Center and Postman Collection make that faster, and a lot safer. You can try a call, see the response, tweak it, and run it again, all without spinning up a client or guessing what headers you missed. Everything’s visible, testable, and easy to share.

Teams can fork the Postman environment, push updates to version control, or swap in their own base URLs for staging. The result is fewer “it works on my machine” moments and more repeatable builds across environments.

This update helps more than just developers writing integrations. For partners who use Wasabi APIs to connect storage workflows or analytics tools, the new documentation and tooling make it easier to prototype quickly, find answers on their own, and keep projects moving without the back-and-forth that can slow down releases.

For enterprise partners and developers alike, this means faster delivery, fewer surprises, and more confident collaboration.

Driving new approaches: testing and iteration with Wasabi  

If you’re planning to go API-first, my advice is to invest early in the things that make it work: your specs, your tooling, and your feedback loops. Those are what keep your API reliable when the documentation gets older, your team gets bigger, and new integrations come online.

Our goal in building the Wasabi API Reference Center wasn’t just better documentation; it was a better feedback cycle between the people who build our APIs and the people who depend on them. The docs, the playgrounds, and the examples are all built to reflect how developers actually work.

If you’re a developer or partner, I encourage you to explore the Wasabi API Reference Center, import the Postman Collection, and build your first integration in under 10 minutes.

Let’s keep the conversation going! Connect with me on LinkedIn to share your feedback and what features or improvements you’d like to see next.