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Ask HN: Alternatives to S3 Buckets?

5 points_bxg111 comments

Especially for smaller/personal projects. I know Google has an equivalent product, but I'm just trying to get the lay of the land. The bucket equivalent of DigitalOcean's hosting would also be interesting to know about (or does DigitalOcean themselves have a bucket product?).

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Yes, DigitalOcean offers S3-compatible storage: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/. However, they use a different pricing model than Amazon S3: they charge $5/month for 250GiB (additional storage is $0.02/GiB) + outbound data transfer for the first 1024GiB is free, then $0.01/GiB.

https://wasabi.com/s3-compatible-cloud-storage/

BUT their "free egress" is not really free egress, since:

https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing/pricing-faqs/ "If your storage use case exceeds the guidelines of our free egress policy on a regular basis, we will contact you to change your pricing plan to one that involves paid egress or we may limit your egress."

Minio is a self hostable object storage project https://github.com/minio/minio

There's backblaze's B2 offering. cheap af, and s3 compatible.

Vultr Object Storage (S3 compatible): https://www.vultr.com/products/object-storage/

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage (S3 compatible): https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html

Not sure about your use case but if it's simple enough consider not using an object storage service and just serve the files from the filesystem.

Is there a reason you don't want to use S3? It's hard to recommend a product without understanding your goals here.

I don't love the idea of giving Amazon money. And while I haven't done much research, I would imagine there might be an offering that does a better job catering to small projects, since S3 is very much built for "full-sized" use cases. Could be wrong about that. But mainly I'm just curious to know what the players are in the space.

The cost of S3 for any small to medium sized project is so minuscule you’re not really giving amazon much money. Especially if you compare it to using EC2 or another VPS provider like digital ocean

> I don't love the idea of giving Amazon money.

Does anyone?

+1 for backblaze B2.

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