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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Dead simple file uploads to your Amazon S3 bucket launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Dead simple file uploads to Amazon S3

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Upload pics and files to Amazon S3 directly from Slack

    2017 · 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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    Simple and easy file uploads for React, use your S3 bucket

    Nov 2025 · better-upload.com · its alternatives →

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    BeamUp▲140

    Explore BeamUp file uploads with no relay servers and instant S3 delivery. Available in beta

    2025 · usebeamup.com · its alternatives →

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    Shubox▲195

    Simple, fast, customizable uploads from your web app to S3

    2017 · shubox.io · its alternatives →

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    A Modern GUI For S3

    2025 · tinybrief.app · its alternatives →

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    An S3 File Uploader GUI written in Python. Contribute to charlesdaniel/s3_uploader development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Easy File Uploader for your websites and apps

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    SashiDo▲83

    Migrate all Parse files to your own Amazon S3

    2016 · mv.sashido.io · its alternatives →

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    Clouds▲144

    Simple & handy temporary file uploads

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    sondd▲97

    Send up to 3gb for free to anyone, at anytime.

    2020 · sondd.com · its alternatives →

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    Upload multiple files to AWS S3 faster with one command

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hoistbayfree▲195

    Open-source desktop app for Amazon S3 and CloudFront

    14d ago · hoistbay.app · its alternatives →

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    Uppy.io▲295

    Next open source file uploader for web browsers

    2017 · uppy.io · 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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    Hi, most people (hopefully) have local backups. However, when that backup fails, it is good to have a backup stored somewhere off-site. In the old days you would ship physical drives/tapes, which is cumbersome, costly, and slow. With fast upload speeds, it is now possible to upload your data to the cloud. I have found S3 Glacier Deep Archive to be a great solution for this: - It is very cheap ($1/TB/month for US region) - Very reliable (99.999999999% data durability, data spread over 3 Availability Zones) However, usability out of the box is not that great, I'm not aware of…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20SP

    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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    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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    Free anonymous decentralized cloud storage for everyone

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Simple file sharing, secure, self-destructing

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    The simplest way to transfer up to 3GB files

    2015 · poetic.io · its alternatives →

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