MinIO
The self-hosted S3 reference implementation — your hardware, your bandwidth, your SLA.
Logo assets
MinIO brand colours
Extracted from the artwork and ranked by how much of the mark each covers — not from a brand book, so treat them as observed rather than official.
What MinIO is
MinIO is the closest thing to a drop-in S3 replacement you can run yourself: erasure coding, versioning, object lock, lifecycle rules, bucket notifications to a dozen sinks, and a full IAM policy engine with OIDC and LDAP. It is the baseline on this page because it has no price — you are buying servers, disks and transit. Note that the AGPL community build had its browser admin console removed in 2025, pushing administration to the mc CLI or the commercial edition.
Recent changes
- 2025-06-03MinIO strips the admin console from the community build
MinIO removed the browser-based management UI from the AGPL community edition, leaving the mc CLI for administration and reserving the console for the commercial AIStor product. Entirely within the licence, badly received, and it pushed a number of self-hosters back toward managed providers.