Minio: S3-Compatible Object Storage in Your Cluster

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Half the software I self-host now expects an S3 bucket to throw things into. Backup tools, container registries, CI artifact stores, Loki for logs, photo libraries — they’ve all standardised on the S3 API as the lingua franca of “somewhere to put blobs”. You can hand all of them an AWS account and a credit card, or you can run Minio and have a real S3-compatible endpoint inside your own cluster, on your own disks, with no egress bills and no surprise invoices. I’ve run it for years and it has quietly become load-bearing infrastructure.

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Minio: S3-Compatible Object Storage in Your Cluster