MinIO was developed by MinIO Inc, a
Silicon Valleybased technology startup founded in November 2014.. MinIO has published a number of
benchmarks to disclose both its own performance and the performance of an
object storage in general. These benchmarks include comparisons to an
Amazon S3 for
Trino,
Presto, and
Spark, as well as throughput results for the S3Benchmark on
HDD and
NVMe drives. MinIO was originally released under
Apache License 2.0, but in 2021 it was migrated to AGPLv3. MinIO released a free "community edition" which was only distributed as a source code release and had a greatly simplified administration interface. On February 13th, 2026, MinIO repository was archived with a message stating that it was no longer maintained. == Architecture ==