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S3-Compatible Providers

All providers on this page speak the S3 API. AeroFTP uses native Signature V4, multipart uploads above 4 MB, and streaming chunked download.

Comparative matrix

ProviderEndpointClassScoreCoreIntegrityNavigationAdvancedEncodingReconcile
AWS S3s3.amazonaws.comB8730/3020/2015/1512/155/105/10
Google Cloud Storagestorage.googleapis.comB8730/3020/2015/1510/157/105/10
iDrive e2s3.{region}.idrivee2.comB8630/3020/2015/1510/156/105/10
MEGA S4s3.g.s4.mega.ioB8630/3020/2015/1510/156/105/10
Storjgateway.storjshare.ioB8630/3020/2015/1510/156/105/10
Wasabis3.{region}.wasabisys.comB8630/3020/2015/1510/156/105/10
Backblaze B2s3.{region}.backblazeb2.comB8530/3020/2015/1510/155/105/10
Cloudflare R2{account}.r2.cloudflarestorage.comB8530/3020/2015/1510/155/105/10
FileLu S3s5.filelu.comB8530/3020/2015/1510/155/105/10
Tencent COScos.{region}.myqcloud.comB8530/3020/2015/1510/155/105/10
Alibaba OSSoss-{region}.aliyuncs.comB7330/3020/2015/1510/155/105/10

Encoding measured 2026-04-18 on live accounts with a 10-file special-name sweep. S3-compatible providers consistently fail on the same set (%, +, &, ', #); see hub notes for the AeroFTP client issues being tracked.

AWS S3

Class B · 89/100

Reference implementation. Full round-trip verified on small and large objects, hashsum SHA-256 matches, tree and find recursive working, server-side copy and versioning supported.

OperationStatus
connect, ls, mkdir, put, get, stat, rm, mv
cat, head, tail
hashsum (SHA-256 parity)
tree, find
server-side copy
versions (get/list/restore)
share link (presigned URL)
storage quota df- not exposed by S3 API
reconcile post-syncpath-normalized after fix 2026-04-19

Backblaze B2

Class B · 87/100

B2 S3-compatible endpoint. Operations pass end-to-end. Storage classes and server-side copy available.

OperationStatus
connect, ls, mkdir, put, get, stat, rm, mv
cat, head, tail
hashsum
tree, find
server-side copy
versions
share link
storage quota df- not exposed by S3 API
reconcile post-syncpath-normalized after fix 2026-04-19

Cloudflare R2

Class B · 87/100

Account-scoped endpoint ({account}.r2.cloudflarestorage.com). Zero egress fees; good fit for public assets.

OperationStatus
connect, ls, mkdir, put, get, stat, rm, mv
cat, head, tail
hashsum
tree, find
server-side copy
versions◑ limited in R2 API
share link✅ (via presigned)
storage quota df- not exposed by S3 API
reconcile post-syncpath-normalized after fix 2026-04-19

Storj

Class B · 87/100

Distributed storage accessed via the Storj S3 gateway at gateway.storjshare.io. Use the S3-compatible backend, not the native Storj protocol, for AeroFTP.

OperationStatus
connect, ls, mkdir, put, get, stat, rm, mv
cat, head, tail
hashsum
tree, find
server-side copy
versions◑ depends on bucket config
share link
storage quota df- not exposed by S3 API
reconcile post-syncpath-normalized after fix 2026-04-19

Wasabi

Class B · 87/100

Hot cloud storage, S3 API. Full matrix green.

OperationStatus
connect, ls, mkdir, put, get, stat, rm, mv
cat, head, tail
hashsum
tree, find
server-side copy
versions
share link
storage quota df- not exposed by S3 API
reconcile post-syncpath-normalized after fix 2026-04-19

iDrive e2

Class B - 86/100

iDrive e2 S3-compatible endpoint, deep-discount cold-storage positioning. Full matrix green.

OperationStatus
connect, ls, mkdir, put, get, stat, rm, mv
hashsum, tree, find
server-side copy
share link (presigned URL)
storage quota df- not exposed by S3 API
reconcile post-syncpath-normalized after fix 2026-04-19

Google Cloud Storage

Class B - 87/100

Google Cloud Storage via its S3 interoperability layer. One of the best encoding scores in the S3 family thanks to how GCS preserves key characters in the XML ListBucket response.

OperationStatus
connect, ls, mkdir, put, get, stat, rm, mv
hashsum, tree, find
server-side copy
share link (presigned URL)
storage quota df- not exposed by S3 API
reconcile post-syncpath-normalized after fix 2026-04-19

MEGA S4

Class B - 86/100

MEGA Object Storage S3-compatible frontend at s3.g.s4.mega.io. Standard S3 surface, same encoding gaps as other S3-compatible providers.

OperationStatus
connect, ls, mkdir, put, get, stat, rm, mv
hashsum, tree, find
server-side copy
versions / tagging / SSE- not supported by MEGA S4
presigned URL (max 7 days)
reconcile post-syncpath-normalized after fix 2026-04-19

FileLu S3

Class B - 85/100

FileLu's S3 gateway (S5). Emoji characters in keys are stored correctly server-side but rendered as ???? in list responses (same transliteration as FileLu native API).

OperationStatus
connect, ls, mkdir, put, get, stat, rm, mv
hashsum, tree, find
emoji key rendering in listing◑ shown as ???? (server-side transliteration)
reconcile post-syncpath-normalized after fix 2026-04-19

Tencent COS

Class B - 85/100

Tencent Cloud Object Storage via S3 compatibility API. Same encoding gaps as the rest of the S3 family.

OperationStatus
connect, ls, mkdir, put, get, stat, rm, mv
hashsum, tree, find
server-side copy
storage quota df- not exposed by S3 API
reconcile post-syncpath-normalized after fix 2026-04-19

Alibaba OSS

Class B - 73/100

Alibaba OSS via S3-compatible endpoint at oss-{region}.aliyuncs.com. Post-fix 2026-04-19: the S3 listing panic on multibyte keys was eliminated (F-P1: s3.rs debug preview now uses char-aware truncation instead of a raw byte slice), promoting Alibaba from Class C to Class B. Retains the common S3-family encoding gaps on %, &, ', # which affect the whole S3 column.

OperationStatus
connect, ls, mkdir, put, get, stat, rm, mv
hashsum, tree, find
server-side copy
storage quota df- not exposed by S3 API
reconcile post-syncpath-normalized after fix 2026-04-19

Notes on S3 common items

  • df / storage quota: most S3-compatible providers do not expose a standard "used space" endpoint. This is a structural N/A rather than a regression, shown as - in tables.
  • Reconcile post-sync: post-fix 2026-04-19 cmd_check, cmd_reconcile, and cmd_sync track relative paths via the scan queue state (entry.name basename + accumulated rel_prefix) instead of stripping the provider-returned absolute path. Reconciliation on S3-compatible providers now matches cleanly without explicit path hints.

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