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Storm Developments · Cloud Infrastructure Dispatch · Hamilton, Ontario Est. 2025

The Dispatch


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  1. Migrating from MinIO to Garage: A Complete Guide

    MinIO's community edition is archived. This is the actual migration to Garage: the rclone commands, the credential and region gotchas that look like deeper problems, and what silently doesn't come across.

  2. Residency Is Not Sovereignty. Microsoft Said So Under Oath.

    A Microsoft executive told the French Senate, under oath, that it cannot stop US authorities from taking customer data held in Europe. The same is true for your data in Canada.

  3. The Anatomy of an AWS Surprise S3 Bill - A Canadian Alternative

    The surprise on an AWS S3 bill is almost never storage. It is egress, the charge to pull your own data out, and the Canadian AWS region costs more without buying sovereignty. The math, and a Canadian S3 alternative priced in flat blocks.

  4. Introducing: Storm Buckets File Browser

    Browse, search, preview, and upload your S3 bucket from the browser. The Storm Buckets file browser runs client-side, so your key never leaves your machine.

  5. MinIO's community edition is archived. What still runs in 2026

    MinIO's community edition is archived. What actually changed, what it means if you run it, and the open-source S3 options still maintained in 2026.

  6. Storm Buckets Now Hosts Websites

    Storm Buckets now serve static websites - same protocol, same file, same place. Object storage and static hosting have always been the same problem; here's what that looks like in practice.