MinIO
High Performance Object Storage released under the AGPL open-source license
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MinIO was an object storage system released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.[3] It had an API compatible with the Amazon S3 cloud storage service. It was capable of working with unstructured data such as photos, videos, log files, backups, and container images with the maximum supported object size being 50TB.[4]
| MinIO Object Storage | |
|---|---|
| Developers | MinIO, Inc |
| Initial release | release-1434511043[1]  / 17 June 2015 |
| Stable release | |
| Written in | Go |
| Type | Object storage |
| License | GNU Affero GPL |
| Website | min |
| Repository | |
History & development
MinIO was developed by MinIO Inc, a Silicon Valley–based technology startup founded in November 2014.[5].
MinIO has published a number of benchmarks to disclose both its own performance and the performance of an object storage in general. These benchmarks include comparisons to an Amazon S3 for Trino, Presto, and Spark, as well as throughput results for the S3Benchmark on HDD and NVMe drives.[6][7]
MinIO was originally released under Apache License 2.0, but in 2021 it was migrated to AGPLv3.[8]
MinIO released a free "community edition" which was only distributed as a source code release and had a greatly simplified administration interface.[9][10]
On February 13th, 2026, MinIO repository was archived with a message stating that it was no longer maintained.[11]
Architecture
MinIO's storage stack had three major components: MinIO Server, MinIO Client and MinIO Client SDK.
