diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 65c6950e5d..34adbcc8e4 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ x-sentry-defaults: &sentry_defaults
       <<: *depends_on-default
     smtp:
       <<: *depends_on-default
-    garage:
+    blob-storage:
       <<: *depends_on-default
     snuba-api:
       <<: *depends_on-default
@@ -210,19 +210,29 @@ services:
       interval: 10s
       timeout: 10s
       retries: 30
-  garage:
-    image: dxflrs/garage:v1.0.1
+  blob-storage:
+    image: "rustfs/rustfs:1.0.0-alpha.33"
+    environment:
+      RUSTFS_VOLUMES: "/data/rustfs0"
+      RUSTFS_ADDRESS: ":7000"
+      RUSTFS_CONSOLE_ENABLE: false
+      RUSTFS_CONSOLE_ADDRESS: ":7001"
+      RUSTFS_ACCESS_KEY: "self-hosted-sentry"
+      RUSTFS_SECRET_KEY: "self-hosted-sentry"
+      RUSTFS_LOG_LEVEL: "info"
     volumes:
-      - type: bind
-        read_only: true
-        source: ./garage.toml
-        target: /etc/garage.toml
-      - "sentry-garage:/var/lib/garage/"
+      - "sentry-blob-storage:/data/rustfs0"
     healthcheck:
-      test: ["CMD", "/garage", "status"]
-      interval: 10s
-      timeout: 2s
-      retries: 2
+      test: ["CMD", "wget", "--no-verbose", "--tries=1", "--spider", "http://localhost:9000/"]
+      interval: 30s
+      timeout: 10s
+      retries: 3
+      start_period: 40s
+  minio-cli:
+    image: "minio/mc:RELEASE.2025-07-16T15-35-03Z-cpuv1"
+    command: ["exit", "0"]
+    environment:
+      MC_HOST_BLOB: "http://self-hosted-sentry:self-hosted-sentry@blob-storage:7000"
   snuba-api:
     <<: *snuba_defaults
   # Kafka consumer responsible for feeding events into Clickhouse
@@ -619,6 +629,8 @@ volumes:
     external: true
   sentry-symbolicator:
     external: true
+  sentry-blob-storage:
+    external: true
   # This volume stores JS SDK assets and the data inside this volume should
   # be cleaned periodically on upgrades.
   sentry-nginx-www:
diff --git a/install/bootstrap-blob-storage.sh b/install/bootstrap-blob-storage.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b21c968816
--- /dev/null
+++ b/install/bootstrap-blob-storage.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+echo "${_group}Bootstrapping blob-storage (node store)..."
+
+$dc up --wait blob-storage postgres
+s3_cli="$dcr minio-cli mc"
+
+# XXX(aldy505): I'm stuck here. I don't think this would work.
+if [[ $($s3_cli ls BLOB/ | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}') != 'nodestore' ]]; then
+  # Only touch if no existing nodestore config is found
+  if ! grep -q "SENTRY_NODESTORE" $SENTRY_CONFIG_PY; then
+    nodestore_config=$(sed -n '/SENTRY_NODESTORE/,/[}]/{p}' sentry/sentry.conf.example.py)
+    if [[ $($dc exec postgres psql -qAt -U postgres -c "select exists (select * from nodestore_node limit 1)") = "f" ]]; then
+      nodestore_config=$(echo -e "$nodestore_config" | sed '$s/\}/    "read_through": True,\n    "delete_through": True,\n\}/')
+    fi
+    echo "$nodestore_config" >>$SENTRY_CONFIG_PY
+  fi
+
+  $s3_cli mb BLOB/nodestore
+  $s3_cli ilm rule add --expire-all-object-versions --expire-days ${SENTRY_EVENT_RETENTION_DAYS:-90} BLOB/nodestore
+else
+  echo "Node store already exists, skipping..."
+fi
+
+echo "${_endgroup}"
diff --git a/sentry/sentry.conf.example.py b/sentry/sentry.conf.example.py
index 4040aedd02..48e4ffe986 100644
--- a/sentry/sentry.conf.example.py
+++ b/sentry/sentry.conf.example.py
@@ -95,19 +95,29 @@ def get_internal_network():
 # See https://develop.sentry.dev/self-hosted/experimental/errors-only/
 SENTRY_SELF_HOSTED_ERRORS_ONLY = env("COMPOSE_PROFILES") != "feature-complete"
 
-##############
-# Node Store #
-##############
-
+################
+# Node Storage #
+################
+
+# Sentry uses an abstraction layer called "node storage" to store raw events.
+# Previously, it used PostgreSQL as the backend, but this didn't scale for
+# high-throughput environments. Read more about this in the documentation:
+# https://develop.sentry.dev/backend/application-domains/nodestore/
+#
+# Through this setting, you can use the provided blob storage or
+# your own S3-compatible API from your infrastructure.
+# Other backend implementations for node storage developed by the community
+# are available in public GitHub repositories.
 SENTRY_NODESTORE = "sentry_nodestore_s3.S3PassthroughDjangoNodeStorage"
 SENTRY_NODESTORE_OPTIONS = {
-    "compression": False,  # we have compression enabled in Garage itself
-    "endpoint_url": "http://garage:3900",
+    "compression": True,
+    "endpoint_url": "http://blob-storage:7000",
     "bucket_path": "nodestore",
     "bucket_name": "nodestore",
-    "region_name": "garage",
-    "aws_access_key_id": "<GARAGE_KEY_ID>",
-    "aws_secret_access_key": "<GARAGE_SECRET_KEY>",
+    "region_name": "us-east-1",
+    "retry_attempts": 2,
+    "aws_access_key_id": "self-hosted-sentry",
+    "aws_secret_access_key": "self-hosted-sentry",
 }
 
 #########