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Garage: the best Open Source alternative to Amazon S3 in 2026

Garage is distributed, S3-compatible object storage, designed to run across several small nodes (even geo-distributed) with high resilience.

License AGPL-3.0Website GitHub Repository

Technical profile

License: AGPL-3.0
Category: Storage
Replaces: Amazon S3
Tech stack: Rust

Preview

Public image provided by Garage on its own website.

Key features

100% S3-compatible API
Built for geo-distributed clusters
Very low per-node resource usage

Garage vs. Amazon S3

Pros

Excellent for homelab clusters on modest hardware

Things to consider

Cluster configuration has a bit more of a learning curve

Quick Docker installation guide

Copy this docker-compose.yml, adjust the example passwords and run docker compose up -d on your server. See the full step-by-step guide →

docker-compose.yml

version: "3.9"
services:
  garage:
    image: dxflrs/garage:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "3900:3900"
      - "3903:3903"
    volumes:
      - garage_meta:/var/lib/garage/meta
      - garage_data:/var/lib/garage/data
volumes:
  garage_meta:
  garage_data: