Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to cunoFS – mount S3/AZ/GCP storage *without* FUSE, 60x faster than s3fs
Hello HN! We’re Dan and Vaughan, based in Cambridge, UK. We recently launched cunoFS, a filesystem for fast, POSIX object storage access. Yes, we’ve heard that “Object Storage is just not suitable for POSIX workloads” or that “workloads should be rewritten to natively support S3”. But what if it could be? And often much faster than S3-native apps? We’ve worked hard to make this possible, without the shortcomings of other approaches. Summary here: - Run (unmodified) applications with S3/AZ/GCP or “S3 compatible” storage, for example: ls s3:// az://…
cunoFS is a filesystem that enables unmodified applications to access S3, Azure, or GCP object storage using standard POSIX commands and operations. Built by Dan and Vaughan, it mounts cloud storage without requiring… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. cunoFS – mount S3/AZ/GCP storage *without* FUSE, 60x faster than s3fs launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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ZeroFS serves S3-compatible buckets as POSIX filesystems over NFS and 9P, or as raw block devices over NBD. Data is compressed and encrypted before upload.
Jul 2026 · zerofs.net · its alternatives →
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ZeroFS: A log-structured filesystem for S3. ZeroFS serves S3-compatible buckets as POSIX filesystems over NFS and 9P, or as raw block devices over NBD. - GitHub - Barre/ZeroFS: ZeroFS: A log-structured filesystem for S3. ZeroFS serves S3-compatible buckets as POSIX filesystems over NFS and 9P, or as
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built a SQLite VFS in Rust that serves cold queries directly from S3 with sub-second performance, and often much faster. It’s called turbolite. It is experimental, buggy, and may corrupt data. I would not trust it with anything important yet. I wanted to explore whether object storage has gotten fast enough to support embedded databases over cloud storage. Filesystems reward tiny random reads and in-place mutation. S3 rewards fewer requests, bigger transfers, immutable objects, and aggressively parallel operations where bandwidth is often the real constraint. This was explicitly inspired…
Mar 2026 · github.com · 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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a FUSE file system based on Google Drive. Contribute to harababurel/gcsf development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Scalable high-performance shared filesystem for S3-compatible object stores and Azure Blob Storage. Faster than Amazon EFS, SoftNAS and GlusterFS. For Linux, EC2, MacOS, as well as SMB and NFS exports. Great for machine learning, cluster computation, simulation, backup and DR, Kubernetes and web ser
2015 · objectivefs.com · its alternatives →
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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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Hey everyone, I’m Hunter, the founder of Archil. Archil is transforming object storage, like Amazon S3, into infinite, local file systems that provide instant access to massive data sets. Last year, we launched Archil’s NFS-based product publicly on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42174204), and we were absolutely thrilled to see the response of this community. Since our last launch, we took a 10 month company-wide bet to build our own, custom storage protocol to deliver true, local-like performance to cloud instances – by behaving closer to a block storage…
2025 · its alternatives →
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gitfs went on a trip around the world, and we were there to document it: fro Italy to Sweden, from the UK to Spain, gitfs has been center stage.
2014 · presslabs.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · alpblog.heroku.com · its alternatives →
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Drivebase▲98Unified file manager for all your cloud storage with E2EE
Feb 2026 · drivebase.io · its alternatives →
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ClearMesh▲61A Git-like platform for datasets, models, and binary folders
May 2026 · its alternatives →
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Filebase▲18Learn how to use thirdweb and Filebase to deploy NFT collections onto IPFS, ensuring decentralized storage at a fraction of the cost.
Jun 2026 · filebase.com · its alternatives →
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ExpanDrive▲70Network drive for cloud storage. Access files on-demand.
2019 · expandrive.com · its alternatives →
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🔥 a versioning filesystem inspired by git. Contribute to artagnon/phoenixfs development by creating an account on GitHub.
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, AWS S3 Express One Zone promises improved latency and throughput but comes with several limitations including only being available in one availability zone and the directory bucket structure. We developed Accelerated Cloud Storage to offer an object storage system with high performance (up to 10X better than S3 Express One Zone in latency and throughput), strong consistency and global availability that scales and moves data based on demand. The service is accessible through an S3 compatible Go/Python SDK. ACS has enterprise-grade security compliance (SOC 2 Type 2 pending), and a…
2025 · acceleratedcloudstorage.com · its alternatives →
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S3nding▲98The fastest way to upload and share files from S3.
Feb 2026 · s3nding.nicoandrade.com · 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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FUSE filesystem over Google Drive. Contribute to astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse development by creating an account on GitHub.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · pachyderm-io.github.io · its alternatives →
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- ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3 alternatives
- ZeroFS, the Filesystem That Makes S3 Your Primary Storage alternatives
- Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3 alternatives
- CallFS – S3-style object store in one Go binary (MIT) alternatives
- Google Drive as a file system alternatives
- ObjectiveFS – Shared file system for EC2 and laptop alternatives
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