Best Amazon S3 Alternatives (2026): 10+ options compared

Neon

Neon is a managed serverless PostgreSQL service with autoscaling, scale-to-zero and instant database branching, aimed at developers, startups and SaaS teams.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Amazon S3 does not)
• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (9/10 vs 5/10)
• Gives up: Higher Integration score (10/10 vs 8/10)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon's public cloud platform, with over 200 pay-as-you-go services for compute, storage, databases, networking and AI, used by startups through large enterprises and governments.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Amazon S3 does not)
• Better at: Higher Customization score (10/10 vs 8/10)
• Gives up: Higher Ease of Use score (5/10 vs 4/10)

Managed object storage from Google Cloud for unstructured data, offering several storage classes, multi-region replication and pay-per-use pricing for developers and enterprises.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Amazon S3 does not)
• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (6/10 vs 5/10)
• Gives up: Higher Integration score (10/10 vs 9/10)

Northflank

Northflank is a Kubernetes-based developer platform for deploying services, jobs, databases and GPU workloads on its managed cloud or on customers' own cloud accounts.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Amazon S3 does not)
• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (8/10 vs 5/10)
• Gives up: Higher Integration score (10/10 vs 7/10)

AWS Amplify is a pay-as-you-go platform from Amazon Web Services for hosting web apps from Git and building full-stack backends on AWS.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Amazon S3 does not)
• Better at: Higher Cost score (7/10 vs 5/10)
• Gives up: Higher Analytics score (8/10 vs 6/10)

Cloudinary

Cloudinary is a cloud media platform that stores, transforms, optimizes and delivers images and video through a CDN for developers and marketing teams.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Amazon S3 does not)
• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (7/10 vs 5/10)
• Gives up: Higher Analytics score (8/10 vs 6/10)

Supabase

Supabase is an open-source backend platform built on managed Postgres. It bundles auth, file storage, edge functions, and realtime for developers building web and mobile apps.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Amazon S3 does not)
• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (8/10 vs 5/10)
• Gives up: Higher Analytics score (8/10 vs 5/10)

ClickHouse

ClickHouse Cloud is a managed, usage-billed service for the open-source ClickHouse columnar database, used for real-time analytics on large datasets on AWS, GCP and Azure.

• Better at: Higher Support score (7/10 vs 6/10)
• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (6/10 vs 5/10)
• Gives up: Higher Integration score (10/10 vs 7/10)

Amazon CloudFront is the AWS content delivery network. It caches and serves websites, APIs and media from more than 750 edge locations, and includes DDoS protection, WAF and edge compute.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Amazon S3 does not)
• Better at: Higher Cost score (6/10 vs 5/10)
• Gives up: Higher Integration score (10/10 vs 9/10)

Google Cloud

Google's public cloud platform providing pay-as-you-go virtual machines, Kubernetes, serverless, databases, storage, networking, data analytics and AI services for businesses of every size.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Amazon S3 does not)
• Better at: Higher Customization score (9/10 vs 8/10)
• Gives up: Higher Integration score (10/10 vs 8/10)

Amazon EC2 is AWS's on-demand virtual server service, offering resizable compute instances billed per second for businesses of any size.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Amazon S3 does not)
• Better at: Higher Customization score (10/10 vs 8/10)
• Gives up: Higher Cost score (5/10 vs 4/10)

AWS Lambda is Amazon's serverless compute service. It runs event-driven code without servers to manage and charges per request and per GB-second of compute.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Amazon S3 does not)
• Better at: Higher Cost score (7/10 vs 5/10)
• Gives up: Higher Integration score (10/10 vs 9/10)

Amazon Elastic Container Service is AWS's fully managed container orchestrator. Teams use it to run Docker workloads on EC2, serverless Fargate, or their own on-premises hardware.

• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (7/10 vs 5/10)
• Better at: Higher Cost score (6/10 vs 5/10)
• Gives up: Higher Integration score (10/10 vs 8/10)

Baseten

Baseten is an AI inference platform that lets engineering teams serve, scale and train open-weight and custom models on managed multi-cloud GPUs, billed per minute.

• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (6/10 vs 5/10)
• Gives up: Higher Integration score (10/10 vs 6/10)

Fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service on Google Cloud for demanding transactional, analytical and AI workloads, with a downloadable Omni edition.

• Better at: Has a free plan (Amazon S3 does not)
• Better at: Higher Ease of Use score (7/10 vs 5/10)
• Gives up: Higher Integration score (10/10 vs 8/10)