Egress fees are cheap, even on Amazon. Cloudflare R2 is coming and there it will be completely free. Not to mention that everything's going to be safe and sound

Egress fees are cheap, even on Amazon. Cloudflare R2 is coming and there it will be completely free. Not to mention that everything's going to be safe and sound if your home burns down. Pretty sure S3 supports an equivalent for Google Storage's CMEK too, so you can encrypt your data in a way that isn't easily readable by them. They're not interested in your data anyway. You can pay Amazon, or you can pay for electricity and pay with your time to administrate a NAS. You have to pay one way or another.