The point of Immich is self hosting. Using AWS defeats that purpose

jasonvorhe 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

S3 has many open implementations you can self host. Some are quite lean even. Unless you need really complex IAM stuff it's a solid and rather simple experience to run it.

	▲	MoonWalk 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This is a good point. I'd rather have something with the S3 option, so I can serve the pages from my house but the images from a speedier source.
	▲	gonzalohm 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah but Immich provides a lot more features than just storage

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fragmede 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Perfect is the enemy of the good. While there's an ideal case where you're hosting it on a box in your house, that's not for everybody. So while hosting it on AWS doesn't remove every dependency on big tech, at least it's not a full on Google hosted SaaS product.

	▲	gonzalohm 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think "perfect is the enemy of good" is actually an argument against AWS integration. Using S3 as a backend is a lot more complex than using local storage so it would take a lot more time to implement, that's why local storage is good enough