MinIO Has a Free API — S3-Compatible Object Storage You Can Self-Host

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage server. Run your own S3 locally or on your servers — same API, no cloud vendor lock-in. What Is MinIO? MinIO is 100% compatible with the Amazon S3 API. Any tool that works with S3 works with MinIO — SDKs, CLIs, applications. Features: S3 API compatible Single binary Erasure coding Encryption at rest Bucket versioning Free and open source Quick Start docker run -p 9000:9000 -p 9001:9001 \ -e MINIO_ROOT_USER = admin \ -e MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD = password123 \ minio/minio server /data --console-address ":9001" Console: http://localhost:9001 API: http://localhost:9000 S3 API (works with any S3 SDK) # Using AWS CLI with MinIO aws --endpoint-url http://localhost:9000 s3 mb s3://my-bucket aws --endpoint-url http://localhost:9000 s3 cp file.txt s3://my-bucket/ aws --endpoint-url http://localhost:9000 s3 ls s3://my-bucket/ Python (boto3) import boto3 s3 = boto3 . client ( " s3 " , endpoint_url = " http://localhost:9000 " , aws_access_key_id