MinIO Object Storage

MinIO is an open-source, high-performance object storage server created by Garima Kapoor and the MinIO team in 2014, providing Amazon S3-compatible API for storing unstructured data including photos, videos, log files, backups, and container images, written in Go for performance with optimizations for multi-core processors and NVMe drives, delivering read and write throughput exceeding one hundred eighty gigabytes per second on commodity hardware, designed as the fastest object storage server for AI and machine learning workloads, adopted by over ten million users and companies including GitLab and Splunk for their S3-compatible storage needs. The S3 API compatibility provides full implementation of the Amazon S3 REST API including bucket operations, object operations, multipart upload, presigned URLs, bucket policies, lifecycle rules, versioning, server-side encryption, and event notifications, enabling drop-in replacement for Amazon S3 in existing applications. The erasure coding engine splits objects into data and parity shards across multiple drives, enabling reconstruction from any subset of shards, with configurable redundancy levels, bitrot detection for data integrity, and healing that automatically repairs corrupted shards. The distributed mode for horizontal scaling. The site replication for multi-region. The identity and access management. The KMS integration for encryption. The observability through Prometheus. The console web interface. Designed by Garima Kapoor. Designed for cloud-native workloads.