AIStor for HDFS Modernization

HDFS was engineered for a different era: 3x replication, tightly coupled compute and storage, and specialized APIs that require dedicated operational expertise. Those architectural choices are increasingly at odds with the economics and tooling of modern data platforms. This product brief presents MinIO AIStor as the direct, cost-efficient replacement. It covers the key benchmarks: 19.2 TiB/s throughput demonstrated at 1.0 EiB scale, sub-millisecond latency for object operations, and up to 60% cost reduction with 67% less storage overhead through erasure coding versus HDFS 3x replication. AIStor's Kubernetes-native architecture and native S3 API eliminate the need for custom integration work, giving teams immediate access to thousands of modern tools. Independent compute and storage scaling removes the overprovisioning waste that defines Hadoop deployments, and migration can proceed non-disruptively alongside existing HDFS operations.