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Can anyone recommend a FOSS photo store built on top of AWS or similar cloud hosting/storage?

I'm aware there are a thousand PHP photo library website-in-a-box type solutions. I'm more looking for something that can take advantage of cloud storage such as Amazon's buckets, so the billing increments with the amount of data stored. In an ideal world it would retain max-res files in Glacier, select storage intelligently based on frequency of access, etc etc.

It's for personal use. I'd like to pop something up for our family to archive and share photos. Privately, with the option of publicly sharing.

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I haven't run across anything convincingly good. I've put together my own system (that is nowhere near as advanced as what you are suggesting) using a static site generator (jekyll) and a script to sync my image folders to s3 and generate yaml files for the albums. I use lambda/apigateway for the login endpoint and that generates a cloudfront signed cookie for access control to the otherwise static website. It works but I wish I had more time to add features (search, tagging, face detection, etc...). Not really something that i plan on open sourcing though.

You'll probably want auto-sync from your laptop/phone/etc too.

I think Nextcloud on a VPS or your own server could work? It supports external storage too (S3 etc). Though it's not just for photos.

https://github.com/nextcloud

I'm not sure if they do RAW previews, but should be possible to add.

Koken looks OK too, more photo oriented - http://koken.me/

The nextcloud/owncloud debacle seems to need a little more time before sinking too much into it.

We are currently using google drive to sync our photo library w/the home server, and share out private links via email when needed. This keeps us from having to maintain an app/server, users/pws for friends and family...etc, and we can take down the private links as needed.

Not great, but workable at this point.

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