CIMMYT briefly considered using AWS S3 to make its research publicly available over the cloud with ease, but realized that route was just too cost-prohibitive. Storj DCS is decentralized object storage that's radically more secure, reliable, performant, and cost-effective, which is why CIMMYT is using Storj DCS as their storage layer as areliable and affordable object storage solution that they’re excited to tell their peers and others about.