## Introduction

Minio is an open source object storage released under [Apache license v2](./LICENSE) . It uses ``Rubberband Erasure`` coding to dynamically protect the data.
Minio's design is inspired by Amazon's S3 for its API and Facebook's Haystack for its immutable data structure.

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