MinIO Has a Free S3-Compatible Object Storage — Run AWS S3 on Your Own Hardware

A startup was paying $500/month for S3 storage. Their data never left one region. They were paying Amazon for something they could run themselves. MinIO is a free, S3-compatible object storage server. Same API as AWS S3, runs on your hardware. Every S3 SDK and tool works with it. What MinIO Offers for Free S3 Compatible - Works with every AWS S3 SDK and CLI High Performance - 325 GiB/s throughput on commodity hardware Erasure Coding - Data protection without RAID Encryption - Server-side and client-side encryption Versioning - Object versioning like S3 Lifecycle Rules - Automatic data tiering and expiration Identity Management - LDAP, OIDC, built-in IAM Quick Start docker run -p 9000:9000 -p 9001:9001 minio/minio server /data --console-address ":9001" # Use any S3 client: aws s3 --endpoint-url http://localhost:9000 ls GitHub: minio/minio - 49K+ stars Need to monitor and scrape data from multiple web services automatically? I build custom scraping solutions. Check out my web scraping to