ILilian·Apr 14, 2026
How about s3proxy: https://github.com/gaul/s3proxy
Among other things, it can serve local folders as s3 api.
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Access other storage backends via the S3 API
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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17 sourcesFrom what I can gather, S3Proxy[1] can do this, but relies on a Java library that's no longer maintained[2], so not really much better.
I too think it would be great with a simple project that can serve S3 from filesystem, for local deployments that doesn't need balls to the walls performance.
[1]: https://github.com/gaul/s3proxy
[2]: https://jclouds.apache.org/
In MinIO repository is no longer maintaineds3proxy: https://github.com/gaul/s3proxy
In Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)s3proxy has a filesystem backend [0].
Possibly of interest: s3gw[1] is a modified version of ceph's radosgw that allows it to run standalone. It's geared towards kubernetes (notably part of Rancher's storage solution), but should work as a standalone container.
[0] https://github.com/gaul/s3proxy
[1] https://github.com/s3gw-tech/s3gw
In MinIO is now in maintenance-modeI would add https://github.com/gaul/s3proxy and https://lakefs.io/ to your list.
In Ask HN: S3/Cloudflare R2/GCS/Wasabi/B2/Bunny or Minio/Seaweed/Garage/Ceph?Another alternative:
https://github.com/gaul/s3proxy
(supports serving ("proxying") from file system)
In MinIO passes 1B cumulative Docker PullsThere's s3proxy:
https://github.com/gaul/s3proxy
https://ventral.digital/posts/2020/10/11/s3-api-compatibilit...
In Updated MinIO NVMe Benchmarks: 2.6Tpbs on Get and 1.6 on PutObject stores unfortunately innovate on their APIs instead of their implementations. I wrote S3Proxy to bridge the gap between S3 applications and a variety of object stores including B2:
https://github.com/gaul/s3proxy
In Show HN: B2blaze – A Backblaze B2 library for PythonS3Proxy gateways to Azure as well as Backblaze, Google Cloud, and Swift:
https://github.com/gaul/s3proxy
In Show HN: Add S3 Capabilities to Azure Blob Storage Using Miniohttps://github.com/andrewgaul/s3proxy ? (no hyphen)
In S3 was downYou can get some S3 compatibility with S3Proxy: https://github.com/andrewgaul/s3proxy/wiki/Storage-backend-e...
In Backblaze B2 Drops Download Pricing by 60%S3 applications can use any object store if they use S3Proxy:
https://github.com/andrewgaul/s3proxy
In Ask HN: Is S3 down?S3Proxy offers similar multi-protocol access at the S3 API layer:
https://github.com/andrewgaul/s3proxy
It has compatibility with local filesystem, Backblaze B2, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure, and OpenStack Swift. Note that this is software and not a service.
[S3Proxy author plug]
In Show HN: Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Backblaze via a Single APIIf someone writes a jclouds provider for B2, you can then use https://github.com/andrewgaul/s3proxy to interface with it
In Backblaze B2 Cloud StorageIf you mean that you need something that supports the S3 API, you could try S3Proxy[0]. It basically presents the S3 API over a variety of different storage backends.
[0] https://github.com/andrewgaul/s3proxy
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