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		remram on Aug 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MinIO: A Bare Metal Drop-In for AWS S3 Amazon wouldn't, but another cloud service might decide to run this rather than implementing their own S3-compatible object storage from scratch. Or they might use part of Minio's code to make their existing object storage solution compatible with S3.

adolph on Aug 10, 2021 [–]

IIRC from this podcast with Anand Babu Periasamy [0], they already do.

https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/minio-object-storage-...

remram on Aug 10, 2021 | [–]

Who does what? Amazon runs Minio?

The notes don't mention this and the audio is over one hour, would you mind clarifying?

adolph on Aug 11, 2021 | | [–]

another cloud service [Azure] decided to run this rather than implementing their own S3-compatible object storage from scratch

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