MinIO Has a Free S3-Compatible Object Storage — Self-Host Your Own AWS S3

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage you can run anywhere. What You Get for Free S3-compatible API — use existing AWS SDKs and tools Unlimited storage — limited only by your disks Erasure coding — data redundancy without RAID Encryption — at-rest and in-transit, SSE-S3/SSE-KMS Versioning & locking — object versioning, WORM compliance Replication — site-to-site, bucket-to-bucket IAM — users, groups, policies (S3-compatible) Console — web-based management dashboard Quick Start # Docker docker run -d -p 9000:9000 -p 9001:9001 \ -e MINIO_ROOT_USER = admin \ -e MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD = password123 \ -v minio-data:/data \ minio/minio server /data --console-address ":9001" # Use with any S3 SDK aws s3 --endpoint-url http://localhost:9000 mb s3://my-bucket aws s3 --endpoint-url http://localhost:9000 cp file.txt s3://my-bucket/ Why Developers Choose It AWS S3 charges for storage + requests + egress: MinIO is free — self-hosted, no per-request fees S3 API compatible — switch fr