If you're in the market for a cloud-native object storage system that can span multiple clouds and integrate with Amazon S3, MinIO is a top contender. It's an open-source, high-performance system for cloud-native workloads, especially artificial intelligence and machine learning. MinIO is designed to scale, is Kubernetes-native, and supports active-active, multi-site replication. It also has features like industry-standard encryption, object immutability, and identity and access management with AWS IAM compatibility. That makes it a good fit for big AI/ML workloads, data lakes and databases.
Another strong contender is Aiven, a unified, cloud-agnostic platform that makes it easier to manage cloud data infrastructure. Aiven offers a range of open-source technologies like Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL and OpenSearch, and runs them on multiple clouds, including AWS, Google and Azure. With features like transparent pricing, strong security and high availability, Aiven is good for companies that want to simplify data infrastructure management and accelerate app development.
For a more data-centric option, MotherDuck is a cloud-based data warehouse that improves on the performance of DuckDB with cloud-scale processing. It supports hybrid query execution, user-level tenancy and several object storage systems including AWS S3. MotherDuck is geared for data teams and app developers looking for a fast, efficient and scalable foundation for data applications.