On September 18, 2026, RustFS shipped its 1.0.0 GA release, with 32,000 GitHub stars and 2.7 million instances deployed since its first commit in February 2024. It is the Rust, Apache 2.0 S3 object storage establishing itself as MinIO’s successor for self-hosted deployments.
Versity’s S3 gateway, a stateless Apache-2.0 Go binary, exposes any POSIX storage behind the S3 API without deploying MinIO or Ceph. Self-hosters who want to point Restic, rclone, or Velero at their NAS get a bridge that is lighter than a full object store.
On April 25, 2026, the minio/minio repository was archived as read-only, cutting the self-hosted S3 server off from new fixes and releases. On August 24, 2026, Docker announced it would maintain MinIO through a paid ELS subscription, forcing self-hosters to decide before their next audit.
In the first quarter of 2026, 2.8 billion records leaked through misconfigured S3, Azure Blob and Google Cloud Storage buckets, and 73% of the exposed buckets belonged to organizations with a dedicated security team. The answer is not another dashboard — it is organization-level locks and infrastructure-as-code guardrails.
AWS S3 Standard charges $23/TB for storage and $90/TB for egress. Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, and MinIO offer the same S3 API at $7 to $15/TB — with free or near-free egress. Here’s which one to pick based on whether you’re doing backups, CDN, or data lakes.
