[mdaniel]

> Nixiesearch uses an S3-compatible block storage (like AWS S3, Google GCS and Azure Blob Storage)

Hair-splitting: I don't believe Blob Storage is S3 compatible, so one may want to consider rewording to distinguish between whether it really, no kidding, needs "S3 compatible" or it's a euphemism for "key value blob storage"

I'm fully cognizant of the 2017 nature of this, but even they are all "use Minio" https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2017/11/09/s3cmd-amazo... which I guess made a lot more sense before its license change. There's also a more recent question from 2023 (by an alleged Microsoft Employee!) with a very similar "use this shim" answer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1183760/...

[ko_pivot]

Azure is the only major (or even minor) cloud provider refusing to build an S3 API. Strange to me, because Azure Cosmos DB supports Mongo and Cassandra at the API level, for example, so idk what is so offensive to them about S3 becoming the standard HTTP API for object storage.

[ignaloidas]

It's because S3 api is quite a fair bit worse than what they offer. They define their guarantees for storage products way more clearly than other clouds, and for blob storage, from my understanding, their model is better than S3.

[mdaniel]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

The alternative take is that trying to have a party on your remote island is objectively a bad party because no one else will come

[aftbit]

Oh yeah, back when Minio was good, before they decided that POSIX filesystems were "legacy technology" and nobody could want to use their product in combination with the cloud, only as an equally-locked-in replacement.

Okay I'm being a bit harsh, but honestly gateway-mode Minio was 1000% better than their current offering.