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MinIO Has a Free S3-Compatible Object Storage — Run AWS S3 on Your Own Hardware

#storage #devops #cloud #opensource

A startup was paying $500/month for S3 storage. Their data never left one region. They were paying Amazon for something they could run themselves.

MinIO is a free, S3-compatible object storage server. Same API as AWS S3, runs on your hardware. Every S3 SDK and tool works with it.

What MinIO Offers for Free

  • S3 Compatible - Works with every AWS S3 SDK and CLI
  • High Performance - 325 GiB/s throughput on commodity hardware
  • Erasure Coding - Data protection without RAID
  • Encryption - Server-side and client-side encryption
  • Versioning - Object versioning like S3
  • Lifecycle Rules - Automatic data tiering and expiration
  • Identity Management - LDAP, OIDC, built-in IAM

Quick Start 

docker run -p 9000:9000 -p 9001:9001 minio/minio server /data --console-address ":9001"
# Use any S3 client:
aws s3 --endpoint-url http://localhost:9000 ls
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