Yes. AIStor provides complete S3 API compatibility, meaning any application that works with S3—or Hitachi's S3 interface—will work with AIStor without modification. Many organizations have migrated petabytes from legacy object stores to AIStor while their applications continued running without changes.
AIStor is purpose-built for high-throughput, low-latency workloads that AI/ML pipelines demand. On standard NVMe infrastructure, AIStor delivers 19.2 TiB/s reads at exabyte scale. This performance scales linearly—double the nodes, double the throughput. Hitachi's architecture was designed for different workload patterns and typically requires significant tuning to approach these numbers.
MinIO AIStor includes enterprise-grade security and data protection as standard features, not add-ons. This includes server-side encryption with external KMS integration, TLS everywhere, active-active bucket replication across sites, erasure coding with bitrot healing, and IAM-compatible policies. Everything is SIMD-accelerated and always inline. No background processes. No staging layers. No failure modes that cascade when something goes wrong. These aren't bolted on—they're core to the architecture.
A production AIStor cluster can be deployed in hours, not weeks or months. AIStor is a single binary with no external dependencies. If you're running Kubernetes, the AIStor Operator provides declarative deployments. Your existing DevOps team can deploy and operate AIStor—no specialists or professional services required.
Absolutely. AIStor runs in production at many of the world's largest enterprises, serving exabytes of data across thousands of nodes. The architecture scales horizontally without limit. Whether you're running a single server at the edge or a multi-petabyte lakehouse, it's the same AIStor, the same APIs, the same operational model.
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