AS
Replacement brief
AWS S3
Replaces object storage
S3 storage is cheap; S3 egress is not. S3-compatible alternatives with free egress (paired with Cloudflare) cut the bill dramatically for read-heavy workloads.
The verdict weighs direct cost against maintenance, reliability, migration risk, and founder time.
- Verdict
- easy Straightforward swap
- Estimated annual saving
- $900 against the typical bill
- Open-source options
- 3 reviewed alternatives
01 / Deploy
Start with one command
A Teploy-style starting point for a small VPS. Review the generated configuration, then replace the example host and domain with your own.
teploy deploy --image minio --host hetzner --volume objdata --domain s3.example.comBefore you migrate
Price the operational work alongside the server bill. For media-heavy apps, B2/R2 + Cloudflare can eliminate egress entirely.