Replace / Amazon S3
Replace Amazon S3 with MinIO / Garage
The best open-source alternative to Amazon S3 is MinIO or Garage, self-hosted on Railway. Object storage you host. MinIO is AGPL-3.0; Garage is AGPL-3.0 — Amazon S3 without the bucket in someone else's region.
Estimated save $1,200 a year.
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How Amazon S3 compares
| Amazon S3 | MinIO / Garage | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Hosted subscription | Open-source or fair-code license; you pay the host |
| Hosting | Vendor cloud | Self-hosted on Railway or any VPS |
| Rough monthly cost | Public list price not verified this run | Hosting only — no SaaS seat meter in this repo |
- MinIO
AGPL-3.0 S3-compatible object storage
- Garage
AGPL-3.0 S3-compatible store if you want that lineage
FAQ
- Is it free?
- The MinIO / Garage licenses are open source or fair-code. You still pay hosting (Railway or any VPS) and any APIs the stack calls. There is no Amazon S3 seat or task bill on this path.
- Can I migrate from Amazon S3?
- Yes. Start with the workflows or data you actually use, then cut over. The MinIO / Garage stack page has the agent prompt and the cost table; most teams rebuild the slice that matters and leave old Amazon S3 links until they expire.
- How do I deploy it?
- Open the MinIO / Garage stack, copy the agent prompt, and deploy on Railway (one service, PORT, and a volume when the app needs disk). Placeholder: MinIO (or Garage) plus a volume for blobs. Bind the S3 API and the console. No one-click template in this repo yet — Start on Railway. Human file suites stay on /stacks/nextcloud-files.
- What does this replace?
- Amazon S3. The published small-team estimate on this stack is $1,200 a year.
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