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Please don’t use AWS S3 there’s vast numbers of much cheaper compatible choices.
by andrewstuart 9mo ago
Please don’t use AWS S3 there’s vast numbers of much cheaper compatible choices.
- kube-system 9mo ago“Cheap” is not always the #1 requirement for a project.
- thenaturalist 9mo agoPretty bold half claim while not backing it up with a single data point. :D
- PunchyHamster 9mo agoIt's trivial to find and there are many alternatives. Main problem is most support subset of the more advanced S3 features and often not all that big one. But if you just want to dump some backups in the cloud backblaze and other alternatives is cheaper
- imhoguy 9mo agoEspecially when you have to account HIPAA/GDPR/legalese, and some serious SecOps behind that.
- el_pa_b 9mo agoAs data scientists, we usually don't get to choose. It's usually up to the hospital or digital lab's CISO to decide where the digitized slides are stored, and S3 is a fairly common option. That being said, I plan to support more cloud platforms in the future, starting with GCP.
- lijok 9mo agoI guess by "compatible" you mean the data plane. There are choices that speak the S3 data plane API (GetObject, ListBucket, etc). There are no alternatives that support most of the AWS S3 functionality such as replication, event notifications.
- leptons 9mo agoNone? I've seen a few projects that purport to be a drop-in replacement for S3.