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About Lightweight, S3-compatible object storage
Under 80MB RAM beats MinIO's 512MB+, but S3 storage is a crowded, well-funded category.
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Distributed File Storage Service — A distributed file storage service (S3-compatible) with erasure coding, replication, chunking/dedup, metadata store (PostgreSQL), REST API, range requests, multipart upload, TTL/expiration, access control (IAM-style policies), Prometheus metrics, and Kubernetes CSI driver.
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I built S3 from scratch in Go – open-source, one-command deploy
by aman179102·Jun 8, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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Yet another S3 clone when MinIO already dominates this space.
Strengths
- •Reed-Solomon erasure coding with 4+2 shard configuration for fault tolerance
- •Complete feature set: multipart uploads, range requests, IAM-style policies
- •One-command Docker Compose deploy with health checks and JWT auth
Weaknesses
- •MinIO is mature, production-proven, and already solves this problem
- •Zero stars and no forks suggest no community traction or real adoption
Category
Target Audience
DevOps engineers, teams wanting self-hosted object storage
Similar To
MinIO · Ceph · SeaweedFS
Post Description
Built an S3-compatible storage server solo in Go with erasure coding, JWT auth, multipart upload, and Prometheus metrics. 3000+ lines of Go. Open source. 1 command deploy.
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