MinIO is an open-source object storage software. It is API compatible with Amazon S3 cloud storage service ### Erasure Encoding MinIO implements Erasure Coding as a core component in providing data redundancy and availability. ![[erasure-coding-erasure-set.svg]] ### Sync between instances MinIO can sync data between multiple instance of itself within a network. It can be done both in synchronous and asynchronous manner. ### Object Retention MinIO can remove an object after an amount of time. Or instead of removing, it can moving it to a cold-tier instance. It also can keep a compressed version of that data. ### Authorization MinIO uses PBAC (policy-based) instead of RBAC (role-based) for authorization.