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24 alternatives to Lightweight, S3-compatible object storage server with built-in web dash

Lightweight, S3-compatible object storage server with built-in web dashboard. Single binary, low memory, encryption at rest. - Kodiqa-Solutions/VaultS3

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Vault3▲144

    A safe, decentralized vault for your files

    2022 · 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 Modern GUI For S3

    2025 · tinybrief.app · its alternatives →

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    3Box▲100

    Secure, private, decentralized user data storage

    2019 · 3box.io · its alternatives →

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    MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license. - minio/minio

    2016 · github.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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    Beeble▲314

    The safest platform to exchange emails and store files

    2024 · beeble.com · its alternatives →

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    MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object storage. - MinIO

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    S3-compatible object storage, forked from MinIO and maintained by the Pigsty community: versioned releases, signed packages, the full web console, and security fixes with public advisories.

    Aug 2026 · silo.pgsty.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10AS

    Continually-improving intelligence you own.

    2021 · airbox.ai · its alternatives →

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    Tebi▲67

    Geo-distributed object storage solution

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Most S3 usage is PUT, GET, DELETE, LIST with basic auth. This does exactly that. SigV4 auth, multipart uploads, range requests. Storage is just files on disk. No versioning, no ACLs, no encryption. Use MinIO or AWS if you need those.

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple Object Storage (I wish I could call it Steve's Simple Storage, or S3 ;) - skx/sos

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I'm Emilie, I have a literature background (which explains the well-written documentation!) and I've been learning Rust and distributed systems by building minikv over the past few months. It recently got featured in Programmez! magazine: https://www.programmez.com/actualites/minikv-un-key-value-st... minikv is an open-source, distributed storage engine built for learning, experimentation, and self-hosted setups. It combines a strongly-consistent key-value database (Raft), S3-compatible object storage, and basic multi-tenancy. Features/highlights: - Raft…

    Feb 2026 · github.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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    Unified file manager for all your cloud storage with E2EE

    Feb 2026 · drivebase.io · its alternatives →

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    ⚠️ Moved to Code.NOLOG: https://code.nolog.cz/thinking.tools/s3mini - Tiny S3 client. Edge computing ready. No-dep. In Typescript. - good-lly/s3mini

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Compare 21 object storage providers side-by-side. Pricing, egress costs, S3 compatibility, gotchas, and an interactive cost calculator. Updated April 2026.

    Apr 2026 · storage.mixpeek.com · its alternatives →

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    2012 · pablo-merino.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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    Learn 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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    Secure storage for cryptographic secrets, modeled after sudo - rongarret/scache

    2020 · 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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    S3-compatible storage for one Linux server

    Jun 2026 · fbs-landing.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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