## About

Minio is a distributed object storage server built for cloud applications and devops.

## Features

### Amazon S3 Compatible

Minio implements Amazon S3 v4 APIs. Minio also includes client SDKs and a console utility.

### Minimalist Design

Minio is deeply influenced by minimalism. We believe that only simple things scale.

### Apache License 2.0

Minio is free software, released under Apache license v2.0. Minio has an active developer and user community.

### Lambda Functions

Minio triggers Lambda functions through event notification service. In addition Minio also supports simple queueing service for AMQP, Elasticsearch, Redis, NATS and Postgres targets.

### Erasure Code & Bitrot Protection

Minio protects data against hardware failures and silent data corruption using erasure code and checksums. You may lose half the number of drives and still recover from it.

### Written in Go

Go is an emerging language of choice for modern cloud infrastructure projects. Go language enables Minio to be highly concurrent and lightweight.