Your S3 Bill Is a Tax on Laziness (21 Cheaper Alternatives)
Summary
10 TB stored, 5 TB egress out. AWS S3 will charge you $689/month — and $0.09 of every gigabyte just to *leave*. Egress is the moat, and AWS owns the bridge.
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10 TB stored, 5 TB egress out. AWS S3 will charge you $689/month — and $0.09 of every gigabyte just to *leave*. Egress is the moat, and AWS owns the bridge. There are 20 other S3-compatible providers nobody told you about. iDrive e2: $46. Wasabi: $49. Cloudflare R2 and Tigris? Egress is literally zero. Same API. Same buckets. One-fifteenth the price. But read the fine print first: → Wasabi locks you in for 90 days → R2 has no versioning → Backblaze only has 3 regions We sourced every gotcha. 21 providers, side by side. Run your numbers at storage.mixpeek.com. #AWS #S3 #ObjectStorage #CloudStorage #Cloudflare #Wasabi #DevOps #CloudComputing