MinIO
High-performance, S3-compatible object storage system for self-hosted and hybrid cloud deployments.
Overview
MinIO is a high-performance, S3-API-compatible object storage server, historically popular for self-hosted and on-premises storage that needs to speak the S3 protocol used by countless existing tools and SDKs.
Note: as of the current README, this repository (minio/minio) is marked as no longer maintained. The project's maker now directs users toward AIStor - a free, full-featured community edition and a separate commercial Enterprise edition - as the maintained successor. The MinIO community edition here is also now distributed as source only (no pre-built binaries); it must be built with `go install` or Docker, and it remains licensed under AGPLv3.
Teams evaluating MinIO today should check the current status of AIStor and this repository directly before adopting it for a new project, since ongoing maintenance is explicitly no longer guaranteed here.
- Categories
- Storage
- Languages
- Go
- License
- AGPL-3.0
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