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What do you like best about MinIO?

Easy to self host in any VPS server, via Docker system.

Any normal user with minimal technical info., user can easily create the S3 bucket on own server.

We also can create multiple region endpoints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MinIO?

Less docs available publicly, many enterprice using it but normal community is little bit small. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MinIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

It help a lot when we want to create object/s3 storage & buckets on our own server with 100% privacy and security.

It is also helpful when anyone want to create fully automated deployment script, where storage setup also required, so deployer user don’t have to create creds from services like AWS and other stuff, everything can be setuped by self by using MiniO like opensource platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MinIO Overview

What is MinIO?

MinIO is a high-performance, Kubernetes-native object store. MinIO delivers S3-like infrastructure on public clouds, private clouds, on-prem and the edge. Enterprises use MinIO to deliver against ML/AI, analytics, backup and archival workloads - all from a single platform. Remarkably simple to install and manage, MinIO offers a rich suite of enterprise features targeting security, resiliency, data protection, scalability and identity management. MinIO is guided by a few core principles: -> Cloud Native: MinIO was built from scratch in the last four years and is native to the technologies and architectures that define the cloud. These include containerization, orchestration with Kubernetes, microservices and multi-tenancy. -> Performance: MinIO’s GETs/PUTs results exceed 325 GiB/sec and 165 GiB/sec on 32 nodes of NVMe drives and a 100Gbe network. Its combination of chip-level acceleration, atomic metadata and Golang/Golang Assembly code enable it to fly on commodity hardware pushing the bottleneck to the network bandwidth. -> Scalability. At MinIO scaling starts with a single cluster which can be seamlessly expanded to create a global namespace, spanning multiple data centers if needed. -> Simplicity. Minimalism is a guiding design principle at MinIO. MinIO can be installed and configured within minutes simply by downloading a single binary and then executing. -> Amazon S3 Compatibility. Amazon’s S3 API is the defacto standard in the object storage world and represents the most modern storage API in the market. MinIO’s open source adoption ensures it is the most broadly tested S3 compatible object store in the industry. Rumor has it AWS uses MinIO for testing. To learn more, visit www.min.io

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Minio is an object storage server built for cloud application developers and devops.


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4.0 out of 5
"MinIO - On-premise S3-compatible Object Storage"
As far as S3 compatibility goes, MinIO is very close to the S3 object storage capabilities offered in the cloud by AWS, making for easy adoption by...
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"Best self hosted S3 bucket creator tool"
Easy to self host in any VPS server, via Docker system. Any normal user with minimal technical info., user can easily create the S3 bucket on own ...
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4.0 out of 5
"A great object storage for enterprises"
Easy of use Objects can be dealt with UI and CLI Easy to navigate and can be well organized Object size is not strictly limited which opens up m...
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Balaji K.
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What do you like best about MinIO?

Easy of use

Objects can be dealt with UI and CLI

Easy to navigate and can be well organized

Object size is not strictly limited which opens up multiple use cases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MinIO?

Cost can be one of the challenging factor for small enterprises or companies

UI or portal has some challenging limitations in some environments as far as I know Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MinIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

Object block storage has been super easy with minIO and it is used in enterprise applications widely

It is fast in storing and retieving data from minIO

Having said that there is no compromise in security. It is very well secured to use and minIO as object storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about MinIO?

It's user friendly and extremely simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MinIO?

I don't have anything I dislike about MinIO Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MinIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use minIO to create test instances of our software in order to troubleshoot and log defects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about MinIO?

What I like about MinIO is that the UI is simple. You can store pictures and other objects easily. It will provide links and can be accessed anywhere easily. Easy to create folders and is secured. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MinIO?

I don't dislike anything about MinIO, and it works for me the way I want it to be. It saves the file logos I store and provides links I use on the website I am working on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MinIO:

I recommend using MinIO when you are looking for software to use as storage for any files, and it's secured. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MinIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

MinIO helps solve the problem of storing the images or logos that can provide the shareable link which websites can use. It also helps to secure the link since you need to have the API key. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about MinIO?

As far as S3 compatibility goes, MinIO is very close to the S3 object storage capabilities offered in the cloud by AWS, making for easy adoption by end users who are familiar with this design paradigm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MinIO?

Administration is a bit difficult at times due to gaps in documentation and expertise required by engineering team. As a result we have seen occasional stability issues, especially in availability of APIs and services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MinIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

MinIO has made it possible to offer on-premise object storage parity for our end-users, enabling them to use many of the same tools and coding strategies that they would use in the cloud. It is more affordable and offers more control than deploying an AWS Outpost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about MinIO?

Fast and easy to set up alternative to AWS s3. Easy to quickly migrate from an s3 hosting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MinIO?

A bit harder to manage compared to AWS S3. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MinIO:

Quick and easy to use alternative to s3 with almost all functionalities of s3 available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MinIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy to manage and lesser expensive compared to aws s3 , also reduces the vendor locking scenario of aws Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about MinIO?

Easy to install and use, support role based access control, has web interface, and fully compatible with aws s3 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MinIO?

I didn't find any High availability options and disaster recovery ability, no in place migration from other S3 storages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MinIO:

Best option to try S3 storage on Onprem infra Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MinIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provide S3 storage for image registries and for DR solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about MinIO?

The best part about this tool is that it is straightforward and scalable. It can be easily integrated with multiple devices like tilleDB, Gitea, etc. It is an open-source tool under Apache 2.0. Easy management is most important in this tool. Moreover, we can store pictures and other objects also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MinIO?

There are some cons, but this tool works best for me the way I want it to be. I store the file's logo, and it also provides an automatic link for the same. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MinIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem solved by this tool is as we want to move AWS, it provides a good bridge. As we write code, we can run that code on this tool to check whether the code is running perfectly. This is easily configured, installed and needs less effort to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about MinIO?

It's super easy to use and very compatible with S3 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MinIO?

The setup process could be improved and also the internal file structure that it use can be confusing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MinIO:

Spend the time setting it up and also remember that backups will fall under your court. This is another thing to consider with these types of solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MinIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a very private solution but with the flexibility of S3 and possible future migration to AWS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about MinIO?

I've yet to run into an issue with it's S3 compatibility in my use cases. To mimic some features you do need to do additional configuration (ex: versioning with erasure coding) but it does a great job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MinIO?

Can be complicated to operationalize. Upgrades and key rotations without data loss are definitely possible but have been tricky for us to accomplish. This may be just a recent thing but backward incompatible releases have caused issues as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MinIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having a local development object storage system for developers have been where we have targeted the use of Minio. In this way we don't need to add the latency and cost of developers going to S3 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about MinIO?

Minio is easy to use and can be easily configured with any Machine Learning model. Some features like UI, OIDC integration, KES encryption are excellent. The developers can also use it with the docker containers. The best part is its flexibility to be integrated with different applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MinIO?

Probably there should be more ease to reach out to the support team. Can introduce a chatbox kind of instant support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MinIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its compatibility with Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure provides makes it more desirable for large organizations. This is easy to configure, install and needs less effort for administration. We have used Minio for some time now, and i must say it has improved the business process outcomes along with compliance & risk management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.