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nhumrichyesterday at 11:47 PM1 replyview on HN

Well, OP, your requirements section is seriously lacking. You need "s3", but only local, non horizontally scalable?

You failed to answer why you even need s3... Why not a filesystem? Full stop. The entire point of s3 is distributed.


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JBorrowtoday at 1:04 AM

People write applications that work with the S3 API but may want to host their own storage for a variety of reasons. Personally I make use of S3-compatible services for pre-signed url access to data on disks I own. The distributed aspect is only one reason why someone might want an S3-like service.