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
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MinIO

High-performance S3-compatible object storage server designed for cloud-native applications.

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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