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Add new services and update alternatives for existing ones
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# Open Source Alternatives to AWS Services

Groups covered: Storage, Database, Analytics, Compute
Groups covered: Storage, Database, Analytics, Compute, DevOps

AWS Service | What it does | OSS Alternatives
------------------------|---------------------------|-----------------
S3 | Object store | [Minio](https://min.io/), [Swift](https://launchpad.net/swift), [Ceph](https://ceph.io/), ...
EFS | File system
EFS | File system | [Gluster](https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs)
FSx | File system | [Lustre](http://lustre.org/)
S3 Glacier | Archive storage
Storage Gateway | Hybrid storage |
AWS Backup | Backup for AWS services | n/a
Storage Gateway | Hybrid storage | [SeaweedFS](https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs)
RDS | Relational database | [MariaDB](https://mariadb.org/), [MySQL](https://www.mysql.com/), [Postgres](https://www.postgresql.org/)
DynamoDB | NoSQL database | [Apache Cassandra](https://cassandra.apache.org/)
ElastiCache | In-memory cache | [Memcached](https://www.memcached.org/), [Redis](https://redis.io/)
ElastiCache | In-memory cache | [Memcached](https://www.memcached.org/), [Redis](https://redis.io/), [Valkey](https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey)
Neptune | Graph database | [Neo4j](https://neo4j.com/)
Amazon Redshift | Data warehousing | [Spark SQL](https://spark.apache.org/sql/), [Apache Hive](https://hive.apache.org/), [Presto](https://prestodb.github.io/)
Amazon QLDB | Ledger database
Amazon Redshift | Data warehousing | [Spark SQL](https://spark.apache.org/sql/), [Apache Hive](https://hive.apache.org/), [Trino](https://github.com/trinodb/trino), [StarRocks](https://github.com/StarRocks/starrocks), [Clickhouse](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse)
Amazon QLDB | Ledger database | [Hyperledger Fabric](https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric)
Amazon DocumentDB | Document database | [MongoDB](https://www.mongodb.com/)
Athena | Data warehousing | [Spark SQL](https://spark.apache.org/sql/), [Apache Hive](https://hive.apache.org/), [Presto](https://prestodb.github.io/)
Athena | Data warehousing | [Spark SQL](https://spark.apache.org/sql/), [Apache Hive](https://hive.apache.org/), [Trino](https://github.com/trinodb/trino)
EMR | Hadoop / Spark | [Apache Spark](https://spark.apache.org/)
CloudSearch | Search | [Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch)
Elasticsearch Service | Elasticsearch | [Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch)
Kinesis | Data streaming | [Apache Kafka](https://kafka.apache.org/)
QuickSight | Business analytics
Data Pipeline | ETL | [Apache Airflow](https://airflow.apache.org/)
AWS Glue | ETL | [Apache Airflow](https://airflow.apache.org/)
CloudSearch | Search | [Opensearch](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch)
Opensearch Service | Opensearch | [Opensearch](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch)
Kinesis | Data streaming | [Apache Kafka](https://kafka.apache.org/), [AutoMQ](https://github.com/AutoMQ/automq)
QuickSight | Business analytics | [Apache Superset](https://github.com/apache/superset), [Metabase](https://github.com/metabase/metabase)
AWS Glue | ETL | [Apache Airflow](https://airflow.apache.org/), [Apache NiFi](https://github.com/apache/nifi)
AWS Lake Formation | Data lake | [HDFS](http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/HdfsUserGuide.html)
MSK | Data streaming | [Apache Kafka](https://kafka.apache.org/)
MSK | Data streaming | [Apache Kafka](https://kafka.apache.org/), [AutoMQ](https://github.com/AutoMQ/automq)
EC2 | Virtual machines
EC2 EBS | Block storage for EC2 | [OpenEBS](https://www.openebs.io/), [Portworx](https://github.com/portworx/px-dev)
Lightsail | Virtual machines
ECR | Container registry | [Docker Registry](https://github.com/docker/distribution), [Quay](https://quay.io/)
ECR | Container registry | [Docker Registry](https://github.com/docker/distribution), [Quay](https://quay.io/), [Harbor](https://github.com/goharbor/harbor), [Harness](https://github.com/harness/harness)
ECS | Container orchestration | [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/), [Marathon](https://mesosphere.github.io/marathon/)
EKS | Container orchestration | [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/)
Lambda | Serverless | [Knative](https://knative.dev/), [OpenFaaS](https://www.openfaas.com/), [Fn](https://fnproject.io/)
Batch | Job queue | [Apache Airflow](https://airflow.apache.org/)
Elastic Beanstalk | App deployment
Serverless App. Repo. | Serverless repository
CloudFormation | Infrastructure as Code | [OpenTofu](https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu), [Pulumi](https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi), [Crossplane](https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane)
CodeBuild | Continuous Integration | [Jenkins](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins), [Woodpecker](https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker), [Harness](https://github.com/harness/harness)
CodePipeline | Continuous Delivery | [ArgoCD](https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd), [Woodpecker](https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker), [Spinnaker](https://github.com/spinnaker/spinnaker), [Harness](https://github.com/harness/harness)
CodeCommit | Git Repository | [Forgejo](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo), [Harness](https://github.com/harness/harness)
CloudWatch | Observability | **Monitoring:** [Prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus) + [Grafana](https://github.com/grafana/grafana), **Logging:** [Opensearch](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch) + [Vector](https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector) + [Opensearch Dashboards](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards), **Incident Management:** [GoAlert](https://github.com/target/goalert)
Secrets Manager | Secret Management | [OpenBao](https://github.com/openbao/openbao)
App Mesh | Service Mesh | [Istio](https://github.com/istio/istio), [Kuma](https://github.com/kumahq/kuma), [Linkerd](https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2)
Cognito | Identity Provider | [Keycloak](https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak), [Casdoor](https://github.com/casdoor/casdoor)
API Gateway | API Gateway | [Apache APISIX](https://github.com/apache/apisix)
ALB | L7 load balancer | [NGINX](https://github.com/nginx/nginx), [Envoy](https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy)
NLB | L4 load balancer | [NGINX](https://github.com/nginx/nginx), [Envoy](https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy)
MQ | Message broker | [RabbitMQ](https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server), [ActiveMQ](https://github.com/apache/activemq)
SQS | Message queue (pull) | [Apache Kafka](https://kafka.apache.org/), [AutoMQ](https://github.com/AutoMQ/automq)
SNS | Message queue (push) | [RabbitMQ](https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server)
Aurora DSQL | Distributed SQL DB | [YugabyteDB](https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db), [TiDB](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb)
AWS Backup | Backup for AWS services | N/A
Serverless App. Repo. | Serverless repository | N/A
Elastic Beanstalk | App deployment | N/A