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Not if you want to validate S3 compatibility for an actual future use case or, * can you imagine*, just for the fun of it.
i'll give you the second case, but nobody should plan for putting stuff on aws with the world as it looks right now...
Practically every other object storage provider offers an S3-compatible API.
I use S3 with OVH at my workplace. So it's not just aws / google.
S3 isn't just an AWS thing anymore. It has kind of become the standard object storage protocol, and almost every cloud provider uses it aside from a few the made their own API's (e.g. Azure Blob storage)
any european ones?
IONOS and ImpossibleCloud for instance are ones we use.
I think Hetzner and OVH also offer S3 buckets.
Scaleway, Exoscale, Cyso, Contabo, UpCloud, and others too
There are numerous other vendors with S3 API-compatibility.
Genuine question, what are the alternatives not called Azure/GCP?