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scality/cloudserver

Zenko CloudServer, an open-source Node.js implementation of the Amazon S3 protocol on the front-end and backend storage capabilities to multiple clouds, including Azure and Google. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/scality/cloudserver · homepage · JavaScript · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

95/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 87
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 0.0
  • age_days: 3745
  • days_rel: 9
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 221

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1940 stars · 259 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Zenko CloudServer is an open-source, Amazon S3-compatible object storage server written in Node.js. It exposes a single S3 API while storing data across multiple backends, including local disk, memory, and cloud providers, and is commonly used to emulate S3 locally for development and testing.

Use cases

  • run a local S3-compatible server for development and testing
  • emulate AWS S3 in a CI test environment
  • expose a single S3 API over multiple cloud storage backends
  • self-host an S3-compatible object storage service
  • develop S3-based applications without an AWS account
  • abstract storage across on-premise and public clouds

When to choose

  • you need an S3 API endpoint without paying for or depending on AWS
  • you want to test S3-integrating code locally or in CI
  • you need a multi-cloud storage abstraction behind one S3 interface
  • you want a self-hosted, Docker-deployable object store

When to avoid

  • you need production-grade, petabyte-scale storage with vendor support (consider Scality RING or a managed S3)
  • you need block or file storage rather than object storage
  • you require full parity with every AWS S3 feature
  • you want a non-Node.js stack or a lightweight embedded option

Facets

service · maturity active

object-storage http-server cloud self-hosted developer-tools cloud-computing self-hosted developer-tools apis files cross-platform self-hosted cloud s3-compatible object-storage-server multi-cloud zenko scality storage-abstraction s3-emulator nodejs docker

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