There's also a way to run an S3-compatible file storage server on your own VPS or hardware, thus avoiding S3 costs altogether. The project's name is Minio [1].

There's also a way to run an S3-compatible file storage server on your own VPS or hardware, thus avoiding S3 costs altogether. The project's name is Minio [1]. Finding that out has saved me a lot of money. I've written up a story about that if anyone's curious [2] [1]: https://minio.io/ https://minio.io/ [2]: https://www.patreon.com/posts/long-changelog-7498817 https://www.patreon.com/posts/long-changelog-7498817 (skip the changelog)