Garage is described as 'Lightweight geo-distributed data store that implements the Amazon S3 object storage protocol. It enables applications to store large blobs such as pictures, video, images, documents, etc., in a redundant multi-node setting' and is a Cloud Storage service in the backup & sync category. There are six alternatives to Garage for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Self-Hosted and Amazon Web Services apps. The best Garage alternative is MinIO, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Garage are Ceph, Amazon Simple Storage Service, Seaweed FS and hiveDisk.