Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Exoscale
VMs and object storage for cloud native applications.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Exoscale launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I previously introduced WinCse on Hacker News (original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43947599). At the time, it only supported AWS S3, but this update adds compatibility with GCP, OCI, and more object storage providers! Object storages tested for compatibility: - AWS S3 - Google Cloud Storage - OCI Object Storage - Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage - Cloudflare R2 - Backblaze B2 - Storj DCS - IDrive e2 With WinCse, you can access and manage object storage directly from Windows Explorer as if it were local files. If you encounter any bugs, please report them on GitHub. I…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PlanetScale Beta▲271The last database you'll ever need. Go from idea to IPO.
2021 · planetscale.com · its alternatives →
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The fastest way to run databases in AWS or GCP
2025 · planetscale.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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Immutable cloud storage with multi-cloud redundancy. Zero-knowledge encryption, unlimited devices. Built on restic — no vendor lock-in. From $5/month.
2018 · relicabackup.com · its alternatives →
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Crosssec▲70Cross-platform cloud storage solution with unique encryption
2016 · crosssec.com · its alternatives →
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ExoAPI▲94Affordable APIs - Geocoding, HTML rendering, barcodes & more
2023 · exoapi.dev · 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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Over the past few months, we've been building Prism; a fast, developer-first observability UI that's deeply integrated with our open-source database, Parseable. Prism is designed for engineers who debug distributed systems, sometimes at odd hours, and need answers right now, without having to deal with five different tools. Backstory: We spoke to dozens of observability practitioners in large enterprises. Across the board, we heard two things: (1)The RoI on observability tools is hard to justify. (2)OSS leads to tool sprawl, metrics in Grafana, logs in ELK, traces… somewhere. We wanted a…
2022 · parseable.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · alpblog.heroku.com · its alternatives →
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Cloud VMs in Switzerland up to 128 GB of RAM & 16 cores
2016 · exoscale.com · 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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Hi HN! We’re Yann, Edouard, and Bastien from Koyeb (https://www.koyeb.com/). We’re building a platform to let you deploy full-stack apps on high-performance hardware around the world, with zero configuration. We provide a “global serverless feeling”, without the hassle of re-writing all your apps or managing k8s complexity [1]. We built Scaleway, a cloud service provider where we designed ARM servers and provided them as cloud servers. During our time there, we saw customers struggle with the same issues while trying to deploy full-stack applications and APIs resiliently. As…
2023 · koyeb.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DigitalOcean▲84The easiest way for developers to deploy an SSD cloud server
2014 · digitalocean.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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I created a data store called Nubostore that is serverless, globally distributed, strongly consistent, low latency, real-time, with Instant-Search engine, and accessible via REST and GraphQL. I wanted a powerful data storage system, without the complexity of database management. Please let me know your thoughts! https://nubo.app/nubostore
2022 · its alternatives →
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Local persistent memory store for LLM applications including claude desktop, github copilot, codex, antigravity, etc. - CaviraOSS/LongMemory
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Ultra-high performance distributed storage system in the AI era. Powered by Fractal ART engine, Rust-native, io_uring, with multi-protocol (S3 object storage, POSIX FS, ...) - fractalbits-labs/fractalbits
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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