Optimizing Costs for AWS S3

There's also a way to run an S3-compatible file storage server on your own VPS or hardware, thus avoiding S3 costs altogether. The project's name is Minio [1]. Finding that out has saved me a lot of money. I've written up a story about that if anyone's curious [2]

[1]: https://minio.io/ [2]: https://www.patreon.com/posts/long-changelog-7498817 (skip the changelog)

For people doing any kind of deployment at scale, there are lots of enterprise options out there that are often cheaper to host yourself (think 100TB+). For a startup with a small storage requirement I totally get the appeal of starting out on AWS though.

LeoFS is also a self-hosted S3 that's got Erlang support