# Amazon S3 alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 161 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Amazon S3 holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-s3/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Backblaze B2: 50
- Cloudflare R2: 26
- Wasabi Object Storage: 19
- DigitalOcean Spaces: 3
- Cloudian HyperStore: 2
- IDrive e2: 2

## Object storage

**Small business**: 63 of 84 answers did not name Amazon S3 (Amazon S3 is #4 of 8 at 7%).

- Backblaze B2: first choice in 26 of those 63
- Cloudflare R2: first choice in 18 of those 63
- Wasabi Object Storage: first choice in 9 of those 63
- DigitalOcean Spaces: first choice in 3 of those 63
- IDrive e2: first choice in 1 of those 63

**Mid-market**: 53 of 84 answers did not name Amazon S3 (Amazon S3 is #3 of 8 at 16%).

- Backblaze B2: first choice in 22 of those 53
- Cloudflare R2: first choice in 5 of those 53
- Wasabi Object Storage: first choice in 2 of those 53
- IDrive e2: first choice in 1 of those 53

**Enterprise**: 45 of 84 answers did not name Amazon S3 (Amazon S3 is #1 of 11 at 43%).

- Wasabi Object Storage: first choice in 8 of those 45
- Cloudflare R2: first choice in 3 of those 45
- Backblaze B2: first choice in 2 of those 45
- Cloudian HyperStore: first choice in 2 of those 45
- MinIO AIStor: first choice in 2 of those 45
- AWS S3 with Savings Plans: first choice in 1 of those 45
- AWS Simple Storage Service: first choice in 1 of those 45
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3: first choice in 1 of those 45

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