MinIO Has a Free Object Storage Server — Self-Hosted S3-Compatible Storage

MinIO is an S3-compatible object storage server — run your own S3 on-premises or in the cloud. What You Get for Free S3 API compatible — use any S3 SDK, tool, or library Single binary — one executable, no dependencies Bucket management — create, list, delete buckets Versioning — object versioning for data protection Lifecycle policies — auto-delete old objects Server-side encryption — AES-256, SSE-S3, SSE-KMS Replication — sync between MinIO instances Console UI — web dashboard for management Events — webhook notifications on object changes Quick Start # Run MinIO docker run -p 9000:9000 -p 9001:9001 \ -e MINIO_ROOT_USER = admin -e MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD = password \ minio/minio server /data --console-address ":9001" # Use with boto3 (AWS SDK) import boto3 s3 = boto3 . client ( ' s3 ' , endpoint_url = ' http://localhost:9000 ' , aws_access_key_id = ' admin ' , aws_secret_access_key = ' password ' ) s3 . create_bucket ( Bucket = ' my-bucket ' ) s3 . upload_file ( ' file.txt ' , ' my-bucket