alternatives to
Hosted object storage, whose API most object stores copy. A closed product from Amazon Web Services.
SeaweedFS, RustFS, Ceph and more. 4 alternatives to Amazon S3, in Go, Rust, C++. Compare fit, licence, stars and the latest signed release.
| Tool | Fit | Stars | Licence | Terms | Self-hosted | Language | Latest | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SeaweedFS | Full replacement | 36k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | Yes | Go | 4.53 | 2026-11-12 |
| RustFS | Full replacement | 36k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | Yes | Rust | 1.0.5 | 2026-11-12 |
| Ceph | Full replacement | 17k | Other | Open source | Yes | C++ | v22.0.0 | 2026-11-12 |
| Garage | Partial | 4.9k | AGPL-3.0 | Open source | Yes | Rust | v2.5.0 | 2026-11-07 |
4 alternatives
SeaweedFS is a distributed storage system for object storage (S3), file systems, Iceberg table buckets, and Lance vector buckets, designed to handle billions of files with O(1) disk access and effortless horizontal scaling.
S3-compatible API on your own servers.
RustFS is an open-source, S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph.
S3-compatible API on your own servers.
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
S3-compatible API through the RADOS Gateway.
(Mirror) S3-compatible object store for small self-hosted geo-distributed deployments. Main repo: https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage
The core S3 API on your own servers, built for small nodes spread across sites.