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by khurs 25 days ago
> nobody will run minio on AWS other than hobby projects and small demos.

You realise not every company uses AWS for any/all its needs?

There are datacenters around the world owned by individual companies or co-located. And many companies still have servers on prem.

Compute and disks are getting more dense & liquid cooled, so less rack space is needed for same power.

And Minio and others can handle Petabytes+

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-un...

Backblaze, Cloudflare R2 and other cheaper S3 compatible competitors also exist.
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_zoltan_ 24 days ago
they exist, sure. And I'm sure it can handle PB+. on prem is an existing market, however, if you reread my comment I talked about running minio on AWS because S3 is too expensive - just doesn't make sense to do.

I've yet to met a Fortune 100 who isn't mostly using either on prem or a large hyperscaler (S3/Azure/GCS).

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