Migrating from MinIO to Garage – Matt Gerega

In December 2025, MinIO officially entered “maintenance mode” for its open-source edition, effectively ending active development. Combined with earlier moves like removing the admin UI, discontinuing Docker images, and pushing users toward their $96,000+ AIStor paid product, the writing was on the wall: MinIO’s open-source days were over.

Garage: What I chose. Lightweight, Rust-based, genuinely open source. SeaweedFS: Go-based, active development, designed for large-scale deployments but works at small scale. Ceph RGW: If you’re already running Ceph, the RADOS Gateway provides S3 compatibility.