Alternatives to Amazon S3
1 self-hosted alternative — 1 medium
Why people look for alternatives
- Egress fees can be surprisingly expensive
- Complex pricing model with many dimensions
- Vendor lock-in with AWS ecosystem
- Data sovereignty concerns depending on region
| App | Difficulty | Min RAM | Docker | Mobile | Active | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MinIO High-performance S3-compatible object storage server designed for cloud-native applications. | medium | 1 GB | — | — | Yes |
MinIO
High-performance S3-compatible object storage server designed for cloud-native applications.
Pros
- + Full S3 API compatibility
- + Very high performance
- + Simple single-binary deployment
- + Good for backing other self-hosted apps
Cons
- - AGPL license may concern some users
- - Enterprise features require commercial license
- - Not a general-purpose file server
- - Erasure coding requires multiple drives