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[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

...a hard disk? you can just write data to a file

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not if you want to validate S3 compatibility for an actual future use case or, * can you imagine*, just for the fun of it.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

i'll give you the second case, but nobody should plan for putting stuff on aws with the world as it looks right now...

[–] dan@upvote.au 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Practically every other object storage provider offers an S3-compatible API.

[–] pticrix@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

I use S3 with OVH at my workplace. So it's not just aws / google.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

S3 isn't just an AWS thing anymore. It has kind of become the standard object storage protocol, and almost every cloud provider uses it aside from a few the made their own API's (e.g. Azure Blob storage)

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

IONOS and ImpossibleCloud for instance are ones we use.
I think Hetzner and OVH also offer S3 buckets.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Scaleway, Exoscale, Cyso, Contabo, UpCloud, and others too

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

There are numerous other vendors with S3 API-compatibility.

[–] searabbit@piefed.social 0 points 4 months ago

Genuine question, what are the alternatives not called Azure/GCP?