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MinIO Ends Community Development, Positions AIStor as the Future

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MinIO has marked its open-source GitHub repository as "THIS REPOSITORY IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED," effectively ending active community development. The company is shifting focus to AIStor, its subscription-based enterprise object storage platform. The code remains available under AGPLv3, but future innovation and support are centered on the commercial product.

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AIStor is an enterprise-grade, high-performance object storage platform built for modern data workloads such as AI, machine learning, analytics, and large-scale data lakes. It is designed to handle massive datasets with predictable performance, operational simplicity, and hyperscale efficiency, while remaining fully compatible with the Amazon S3 API. AIStor is offered under a commercial license as a subscription-based product.

At its core, AIStor is a software-defined, distributed object store that runs on commodity hardware or in containerized environments like Kubernetes. Rather than being limited to traditional file or block interfaces, it exposes object storage semantics that scale from petabytes to exabytes within a single namespace, enabling consistent, flat addressing of vast datasets. It is engineered to sustain very high throughput and concurrency, with examples of multi-TiB/s read performance on optimized clusters.

AIStor is optimized specifically for AI and data-intensive workloads, where throughput, low latency, and horizontal scalability are critical. It integrates broadly with modern AI and analytics tools, including frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Spark, and Iceberg-style table engines, making it suitable as the foundational storage layer for pipelines that demand both performance and consistency.

Security and enterprise readiness are central to AIStor’s design. It includes capabilities like encryption, replication, erasure coding, identity and access controls, immutability, lifecycle management, and operational observability, which are important for mission-critical deployments that must meet compliance and data protection requirements.

AIStor is positioned as a platform that unifies diverse data workloads — from unstructured storage for application data to structured table storage for analytics, as well as AI training and inference datasets — within a consistent object-native architecture. It supports multi-tenant environments and can be deployed across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure.