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

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 171 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://it-ai-index.com/vendors/amazon-s3/alternatives/

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

- Backblaze B2: 60
- Cloudflare R2: 27
- Wasabi Object Storage: 22
- Azure Blob Storage: 2
- Cloudian HyperStore: 2
- DigitalOcean Spaces: 2

## Object storage

**Small business**: 67 of 84 answers did not name Amazon S3 (Amazon S3 is #5 of 9 at 5%).

- Backblaze B2: first choice in 37 of those 67
- Cloudflare R2: first choice in 15 of those 67
- Wasabi Object Storage: first choice in 9 of those 67
- Backblaze Cloud Storage: first choice in 1 of those 67
- DigitalOcean Spaces: first choice in 1 of those 67

**Mid-market**: 57 of 84 answers did not name Amazon S3 (Amazon S3 is #3 of 9 at 12%).

- Backblaze B2: first choice in 22 of those 57
- Cloudflare R2: first choice in 10 of those 57
- Wasabi Object Storage: first choice in 4 of those 57
- Cloudian HyperStore: first choice in 1 of those 57
- DigitalOcean Spaces: first choice in 1 of those 57
- IDrive e2: first choice in 1 of those 57

**Enterprise**: 47 of 84 answers did not name Amazon S3 (Amazon S3 is #1 of 12 at 44%).

- Wasabi Object Storage: first choice in 9 of those 47
- Azure Blob Storage: first choice in 2 of those 47
- Cloudflare R2: first choice in 2 of those 47
- Internxt S3: first choice in 2 of those 47
- Amazon Simple Storage Service S3: first choice in 1 of those 47
- Backblaze B2: first choice in 1 of those 47
- Cloudian HyperStore: first choice in 1 of those 47
- Google Cloud Storage: first choice in 1 of those 47

Published under CC BY 4.0. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.