# S4

6 Hacker News commenters recommended S4 and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend S4 as a simple, self-contained S3-compatible store for proof-of-concepts, demos, development and small deployments.

## Why people recommend it

- Simple option for small deployments (2 comments): "Perfect for POCs, development environments, demos, and simple deployments where a full-scale object storage solution is overkill." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121435)) "Super simple storage service." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757977))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Garage S3 object store](https://hackerapproved.com/p/garage.md): 83 recommend
- [MinIO](https://hackerapproved.com/p/minio.md): 54 recommend
- [RustFS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rustfs.md): 48 recommend
- [SeaweedFS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/seaweedfs.md): 46 recommend
- [VersityGW](https://hackerapproved.com/p/versitygw.md): 16 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "S4", https://hackerapproved.com/p/s4/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).