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I was thinking about it today, I could think of an equivalent for EC2, S3, Software defined networking, archival, load balancers etc. But, one thing I could not easily come up with a replacement for is IAM. What would be an equivalent to IAM that a smallish cloud provider could use without building it from scratch?

A system that provides roles, policies and granular permissions that can be attached to specific resources like the equivalent of S3 buckets, equivalent of EC3 VMs etc.



You're right IAM is the major missing piece that is often forgotten.

The closest I've seen is (ironically) this opensouce project from AWS https://www.cedarpolicy.com/


For hetzner object storage probably generate keys for VM's and store them in Vault or similar tool to manage credentials, which you'll likely want anyway.




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