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OVERVIEW
What is AIStor?
FEATURES
AIStor Tables
Encryption
Object Immutability
Identity + Access Mgt
Lifecycle
Replication
Versioning
Key Management Server
Firewall
Observability
S3 Compatibility
Object Prompt
Events and Lambdas
Security & Compliance
Identity & Access
Encryption & Keys
Anti-Ransomware
Compliance
Protocols
S3
S3 Express
Iceberg Catalog*
MCP*
PromptObject
SFTP
Data Store
Table
Object
Data Engine
Data Management
Replication
Data Resilience
Acceleration
Operations & Management
Administration
Traffic Management
Observability
Proactive Support
Multi-Tenancy Support
AIStor Documentation
AIStor Download
Erasure Code Calculator
Reference Hardware
Use Cases
AI Storage
Learn how MinIO is leading the AI storage market from its exclusive features to performance at scale.
Generative AI
Unify your data silos into one Apache Iceberg-native AI data store for exascale AI and data lakehouse workloads
Data Lakehouse for AI and Analytics
Stream insights instantly. AIStor supports every major data lakehouse engine, bringing structured and unstructured data together
Integrations with MinIO
MinIO Government
HDFS Migration
Resources
Resources Library
Browse our library of white papers, solution briefs, benchmarks and videos.
MinIO Academy
Training and hands-on labs to become an AI Data Infrastructure Expert.
Blog
Product updates, company news, and educational content.
Learning Center
Industry insights, modernization strategies, and AI infrastructure best practices to stay ahead in the evolving data landscape.
Documentation
Expand your expertise through a variety of helpful documents on reference development.
Events
Partners
Community
Github
Explore, experiment, ask questions and contribute.
Slack
Crowdsourced support by and for the community.
Community Docs
Official guides, tutorials, and references for MinIO Community Edition.
Community Edition
Pricing
Support
Support
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QoS & Traffic Management
MinIO AIStor delivers distributed client-side load balancing and bucket-level Quality of Service (QoS), eliminating central bottlenecks while ensuring predictable performance, resource protection, and health-aware failover.
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Two-Layer Traffic Management
Client-side load distribution and backend API rate limiting for complete traffic control and resource protection.
Sidekick Load Balancing
Sidecar client-side load balancer with least connections algorithm and health-based routing, eliminating centralized infrastructure bottlenecks.
Bucket-Level QoS
Native token bucket rate limiting and concurrency control per bucket, API operation, and object prefix.
Health-Aware Failover
Sub-second detection of unavailable backends with automatic rerouting across sites, no client retries or manual intervention required.
Complete Traffic Management Technical Guide
Comprehensive documentation covering Sidekick load balancing algorithms, QoS token bucket implementation, policy rule evaluation, supported S3/SFTP API operations, and production deployment patterns.
Sidekick least connections algorithm
QoS token bucket rate limiting
Concurrency control implementation
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Why AIStor is Different
MinIO AIStor offers a client-side sidecar that provides sub-second failover and per-bucket API-level throttling, preventing noisy neighbors, protecting backends from excessive usage, and ensuring highly available, granular resource control.
<20MB
Binary Size
Tiny Go Sidekick deployed alongside the client application.
Zero
Single Points
Client-side load balancing removes centralized infrastructure dependency, eliminating bottlenecks.
Per-API
Rate Limiting
Token bucket algorithm controls requests per second for specific operations like PutObject.
Business Impact
Noisy Neighbor Prevention
Bucket-level QoS prevents one tenant's workload from monopolizing resources with API-specific rate limits.
Latency Reduction
Client-side health awareness avoids routing to failed backends, reducing latency.
Zero External Dependencies
Single Go binary sidecars and native QoS eliminate separate API gateways or rate limiting infrastructure.
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See how Sidekick client-side load balancing and bucket-level QoS eliminate single points of failure while protecting backend resources
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Additional Resources
Docs
MinIO Sidekick
MinIO Sidekick is a high-performance sidecar load balancer licensed under the MinIO Commercial License.
Training
MinIO Academy
Access training, documentation, and hands-on resources in one place with role specific content for administrators, developers, data engineers, and partners.
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