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Garage

Garage is an S3-compatible distributed object storage service designed for self-hosting at small-to-medium scale. It focuses on geo-distributed deployments with data replication across multiple physical locations.

Similar self-hosted alternatives:

MinIO

SeaweedFS

Ceph

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Pricing Model

Free

Hosting Type

Self-Hosted

License

AGPL-3.0

Deployment Difficulty

Medium

Language

Rust

Garage is a lightweight, S3-compatible distributed object storage system optimized for self-hosted deployments across multiple physical locations. It emphasizes ease of operation and resilience to machine failures while maintaining data availability.

Key Features

Storage Capabilities:
- Full S3 API compatibility
- Multi-location data replication
- Bucket management
- Object versioning
- High availability design
- Failure resilience
Distributed Architecture:
- Geo-distributed deployment
- Cross-location replication
- Location-aware routing
- Consensus-based coordination
- Partition tolerance
- Network resilience
Operational Benefits:
- Lightweight resource usage
- Simple maintenance
- Built-in monitoring
- Command-line tools
- Container support
- Easy scaling
Deployment Options:
- Bare metal installation
- Container deployment
- Multi-node clustering
- Cross-datacenter setup
- Development environments
- Production workloads