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Kind of topic. But I’m wondering if it’s possible to get comparable pricing when self-hosting a solution similar to this in the cloud vs say AWS S3.

Yes. Specially S3 which is way overpriced. I have setup already a multi-region minio cluster at the cost of $0.0039/GB.

The only "cloud" solution that could get closer to that is Storj. [0]

Thanks! Where are you hosting the machines? Are they on a vps somewhere, or do you own the hardware?

Hetzner dedicated servers in their different data centers.

Isn't storj using a cryptocurrency?

You pay for the service in cash if you want. The token is to pay out the nodes storing it.