[andrewstuart]

Please don’t use AWS S3 there’s vast numbers of much cheaper compatible choices.

[el_pa_b]

As data scientists, we usually don't get to choose. It's usually up to the hospital or digital lab's CISO to decide where the digitized slides are stored, and S3 is a fairly common option.

That being said, I plan to support more cloud platforms in the future, starting with GCP.

[lijok]

I guess by "compatible" you mean the data plane.

There are choices that speak the S3 data plane API (GetObject, ListBucket, etc).

There are no alternatives that support most of the AWS S3 functionality such as replication, event notifications.

[leptons]

None? I've seen a few projects that purport to be a drop-in replacement for S3.

[kube-system]

“Cheap” is not always the #1 requirement for a project.

[thenaturalist]

Pretty bold half claim while not backing it up with a single data point. :D

[PunchyHamster]

It's trivial to find and there are many alternatives.

Main problem is most support subset of the more advanced S3 features and often not all that big one. But if you just want to dump some backups in the cloud backblaze and other alternatives is cheaper

[imhoguy]

Especially when you have to account HIPAA/GDPR/legalese, and some serious SecOps behind that.