What is MinIO?
MinIO is the exascale AI data store – S3-compatible, industry-leading performance. MinIO AIStor natively supports S3 for objects, Iceberg for tables, and SFTP for files. The MinIO AIStor advantage: build AI-powered applications without limits. Generative AI workloads, AIStor Tables for analytics. The world's most adopted object store. AI leaders run on AIStor. Designed for demanding AI, agentic computing, and analytics workloads requiring exascale storage performance.
Key Features
- ✓S3 compatible
- ✓Exascale storage
- ✓AI-optimized
- ✓Iceberg tables
- ✓SFTP support
- ✓High performance
- ✓Multi-cloud
- ✓Kubernetes native
- ✓Encryption
- ✓Versioning
- ✓Replication
- ✓Erasure coding
🔒 Privacy & Data Protection
MinIO is fully open-source and self-hosted – all data stays on your infrastructure with S3 compatibility. No vendor lock-in. For organizations wanting AWS S3 alternatives with complete control and AI optimization, MinIO delivers.
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💰 Pricing
MinIO is free and open-source under AGPLv3. Enterprise subscriptions available with support and additional features.
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