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Why would AWS offer Minio, a clone of an AWS Service, as a service?

That seems very confusing

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.

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

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

Who does what? Amazon runs Minio?

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

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

So that AWS can still get people to pay subscription fees to them, instead of using their own hardware with a FOSS solution, if MinIO becomes too popular.

I don't understand. Aren't you describing S3? Why would Amazon offer a second version of S3?

Self hosted as a feature. Akin to managed vs colo hosting.

They pretty much already offer this with outposts (its technically their hardware but its on your premises).

By "self-hosted" you still mean still running on AWS hardware? I don't understand. Why would anybody pay EBS rates instead of S3 rates, to get data stored in the same place by the same people?

I understood it as a joke referencing Aamazon's tendency to take just any open source product that happens to gain enough popularity, rename it and offer it as a shiny new feature of AWS.

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