> When it gets too out of hand, people will paper it over with a new, simpler abstraction layer, and the process starts again, only with a layer of garbage spag

> When it gets too out of hand, people will paper it over with a new, simpler abstraction layer, and the process starts again, only with a layer of garbage spaghetti underneath. I'm pretty happy that there are S3 compatible stores that you can host yourself, that aren't insanely complex. MinIO: https://min.io/ https://min.io/ SeaweedFS: https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs (this one's particularly nice and is permissively licensed, in contrast to everything else) There was also Zenko, but I don't think they gained a lot of traction for the most part: https://www.zenko.io/ https://www.zenko.io/ Of course, many will prefer hosted/managed solutions and that's perfectly fine, but at least when you run software yourself, you are more in control over it and for the most part can also make the judgement on how hard it is to operate and keep operational (e.g. similar to what you'd experience when running PostgreSQL/MariaDB/MySQL or trying to run Oracle). That said, my needs (both in regards to features and scaling) are pretty basic, so it's okay to pay any of the vendors for something a bit more advanced and scalable.