Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) has long been the gold standard for object storage. Amazon S3 service is good, but when you store more data, S3 billing is higher than you expect. Sometimes an Amazon S3 bucket can destroy your budget, and at that point you start looking for something else. Open source tools are the biggest solution for this. With open source, you can store more data within the same budget as Amazon. So here we are looking for the top self-hosted open source alternatives to S3 buckets.
SeaweedFS
SeaweedFS is an excellent S3-compatible tool that provides an API wrapper. SeaweedFS handles billions of small files efficiently. When unexpected server shutdowns occur, it automatically detects and removes corrupted data entries, protecting your data.
As noted in the directory, SeaweedFS is positioned as an "Enterprise-grade distributed object storage" system. It provides 25TB of storage free for use, after which it costs $20/TB/year with no hidden charges.
RustFS
RustFS is fully compatible with the S3 protocol. It is an open source tool released under the Apache 2.0 license. It is built for data safety without any charge. It is built as a commercially-friendly product. In older times, the RustFS storage system was written in C or C++, but today it is written in the advanced language of Rust.
If you want speed without any enterprise-grade server hardware, RustFS is transitioning from commercial roots to a fully open-source model because it provides control over your own data without any charge and with full security.
Garage
Garage is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Amazon S3. It was developed by the French. It also provides the Amazon S3 API. It runs on modest hardware and older x86_64 CPUs.
If you want to deploy on Garage, you require minimal resources — only 1 GB of RAM and at least 16 GB of disk space. You can host static websites. You can also use it for backing up your images, videos, and documents.
VersityGW
VersityGW is an incredibly innovative paradigm for self-hosted storage. It allows you to control your data in a human-readable format. It is an open-source, high-performance S3 translation server. These systems use standard file systems like ZFS, ext4, or XFS.
It is designed to handle both small files and large files. In VersityGW, data is stored in an open format so you can read it without Versity software.
