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## About
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Minio is a distributed object storage server built for cloud applications and devops.
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## Features
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### Amazon S3 Compatible
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Minio implements Amazon S3 v4 APIs. Minio also includes client SDKs and a console utility.
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### Minimalist Design
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Minio is deeply influenced by minimalism. We believe that only simple things scale.
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### Apache License 2.0
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Minio is free software, released under Apache license v2.0. Minio has an active developer and user community.
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### Lambda Functions
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Minio triggers Lambda functions through event notification service. In addition Minio also supports simple queueing service for AMQP, Elasticsearch, Redis, NATS and Postgres targets.
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### Erasure Code & Bitrot Protection
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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.
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### Written in Go
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Go is an emerging language of choice for modern cloud infrastructure projects. Go language enables Minio to be highly concurrent and lightweight.
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