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		synergy20 on July 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS crash cours... what are the strongest competitors to S3? S3 is so dominant I rarely looked into anything else for cloud storage.

vbezhenar on July 24, 2022 [–]

S3 is just a protocol. Minio is one example of software which implements this protocol. You're programming against S3, using amazon SDK, but you change endpoint to another provider and it just works.

I guess it wouldn't work for all the intricacies, but for commonly used stuff it works.

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