[stephenlf]

The article mentions Pure Flashblade. Looks like dedicated hardware. https://www.purestorage.com/products/unstructured-data-stora...

[muhehe]

Yes, but I'd rather some self hosted software solution

[opless]

Not S3, but I use longhorn to store persistent data on my clusters.

Sometimes you'll need admin skills, but only if you spread your cluster out over availability zones or poor connections