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Container Registry on a Budget Using AWS S3 is a solution for developers who need to store and manage container images without expensive dedicated registry services. It leverages AWS S3 as the underlying storage… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Container registry on a budget using AWS S3 launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    I got tired of the push-to-registry/pull-from-registry dance every time I needed to deploy a Docker image. In certain cases, using a full-fledged external (or even local) registry is annoying overhead. And if you think about it, there's already a form of registry present on any of your Docker-enabled hosts — the Docker's own image storage. So I built Unregistry [1] that exposes Docker's (containerd) image storage through a standard registry API. It adds a `docker pussh` command that pushes images directly to remote Docker daemons over SSH. It transfers only the missing layers, making it…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Schematic▲387

    Managing containers can make you feel crazy. If you’ve worked with platforms like AWS ECS, you’ve probably experienced the frustration of manually pulling ...

    2025 · schematichq.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3SR
  4. 4IB

    I created a 100% Open source Company-wide Self-hosted File Sharing Solution for Teams Recently, I wanted to share HD images and video files with my graphic designer. She’s exceptional at her craft but isn’t familiar with AWS S3 So, I got an idea and built this. Github Repo: https://github.com/rohitg00/s3-file-share-for-free Detailed Guide: https://ghumare64.medium.com/i-built-a-company-wide-self-hos...

    2024 · s3-file-share-for-free-35n2u.kinsta.app · its alternatives →

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    SetOps▲313

    Cloud deployment made for developers

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    discharge▲125

    A simple way to deploy static websites to Amazon S3 💻

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7SP

    Last week SWYX nerd-sniped me into building an Open-source Dropbox. Here is Locker: the ultimate open-source Google Drive/box/Dropbox alternative - Provider agnostic (S3, R2, vercel blob, local) - BYOB (Bring your own bucket) - Virtual file system - QMD Search plugin

    Apr 2026 · locker.dev · its alternatives →

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    Native macOS app for your AWS console

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9AS

    We provide financial planning and analysis for enterprise infrastructure to help you understand, negotiate, and optimize your cloud spend.

    2020 · duckbillgroup.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10RI
  11. 11SC
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    Build a Docker image, push it to AWS EC2 Container Registry, then deploy it to AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Dockerrun.aws.json

    2016 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13U2

    Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We launched on Hacker News for the first time early last year, and we've made a lot of progress since then. We've saved tens of millions of dollars for companies, and we are even more excited to announce the launch of a new product: insured reservations for RDS! We worked closely with AWS on this feature and are excited to finally make it generally available. We help companies drive down AWS EC2 & RDS spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    We started CallFS after yet another late-night “why did the uploads vanish?” incident. Our small team had stitched together rsync, a fragile NFS mount, and an S3 bucket—none of it observable, all of it waiting to bite us. So we wrote a single-process file service in Go that: • Speaks the S3 API (so existing tooling works). • Stores hot data on local disks for speed; cold data can sit in any S3-compatible bucket. • Exposes Prometheus metrics and JSON logs by default, because “what happened?” shouldn’t be guesswork. • Ships as a ~25 MB static binary—no external deps, MIT license. Today it’s…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    S3nding▲98

    The fastest way to upload and share files from S3.

    Feb 2026 · s3nding.nicoandrade.com · its alternatives →

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    Lambda functions over S3 objects with concurrency control (each, map, reduce, filter) - littlstar/s3-lambda

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    How this site is hosted: Jekyll build, S3 sync, CloudFront, free SSL, and pretty URLs — the deploy loop still running years later.

    2018 · josephecombs.com · its alternatives →

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    Over the past few years I’ve been thinking about how I could build SaaS and deploy it on my own infrastructure without needing to use any cloud platforms like AWS or GCP. In this repo I document my progress on building a clone of AWS S3 that functions the same as S3 using an exclusively open-source technology stack.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm a software engineer who keeps getting pulled into DevOps no matter how hard I try to escape it. I recently moved into a Lead DevOps Engineer role writing tooling to automate a lot of the pain away. On my own time outside of work, I built Artifact Keeper — a self-hosted artifact registry that supports 45+ package formats. Security scanning, SSO, replication, WASM plugins — it's all in the MIT-licensed release. No enterprise tier. No feature gates. No surprise invoices. Your package managers — pip, npm, docker, cargo, helm, go, all of them — talk directly to it using their native…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    SandCrab▲152

    Hello HN. SandCrab is an app I originally had the idea for and hacked together over a couple of weekends last October. More recently, I’ve been working on adding new features to it as I use it more as my daily tool to interact with my s3 buckets. A few recent features I am excited about include the ability to search across all of your buckets using wildcards and regular expressions as well as searching and filtering by metadata (e.g. content type, file size, date created, etc). I’ve also added support for configuring and generating presigned urls directly in the app which is nice. The app…

    2024 · sandcrab.io · its alternatives →

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    An incredibly simple, open-source alternative to Loom that only requires S3-compatible storage—no servers needed - goshops-com/clipshare

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Like `du` but for S3. Contribute to owocki/s3_disk_util development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AWS S3 CLI tooklit. Contribute to jdevelop/s3kit development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

  24. 24AS

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