Comparisons that start from MinIO, the AGPL S3-compatible object store whose community repository is archived, against other self-hosted object storage.
What to run instead of, or alongside, the archived MinIO community edition when the need is a small, self-hosted S3 store: Garage's single binary with three-zone replication across sites against MinIO's erasure-coded clusters. Covers AGPL obligations on both, S3 features Garage leaves out (versioning, object lock, bucket policies), hardware needs, multi-site design and moving buckets off MinIO.
MinIO against SeaweedFS for S3-compatible object storage: what the archived, source-only MinIO community edition means for new and existing installs, licensing, architecture for small files and large clusters, and moving data off MinIO.
What is left of MinIO's free edition, source-only and archived, against MinIO's commercial AIStor Free and Enterprise: binaries, updates, AGPL obligations, support, and whether to buy AIStor or move to Garage, SeaweedFS or Ceph.
Two MinIO replacements compared: Garage's single Rust binary for small geo-distributed clusters (AGPL-3.0) against SeaweedFS' blob, file and S3 store tuned for many small files (Apache-2.0, paid Enterprise), on S3 coverage, scale, hardware and support.
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