Alternatives to S3 Buckets?

Question

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?).

oneearedrabbit · Accepted Answer

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.

NonEUCitizen · Answer

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."

totetsu · Answer

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

sergiotapia · Answer

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

nreece · Answer

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

borplk · Answer

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.

b3u · Answer

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

imagetic · Answer

+1 for backblaze B2.