Minio Limitations.md

Minio Server Limits Per Tenant

We found the following APIs to be redundant or less useful outside of AWS. If you have a different view on any of the APIs we missed, please open a github issue.

Erasure Code (Multiple Drives / Servers)

Item	Specification
Maximum number of drives	16
Minimum number of drives	4
Read quorum	N/2
Write quorum	N/2+1

Browser Access

Item	Specification
Web browser upload size limit	5GB

Limits of S3 API

Item	Specification
Maximum number of buckets	no-limit
Maximum number of objects per bucket	no-limit
Maximum object size	5 TB
Minimum object size	0 B
Maximum object size per PUT operation	5 GB
Maximum number of parts per upload	10,000
Part size	5 MB to 5 GB. Last part can be 0 B to 5 GB
Maximum number of parts returned per list parts request	1000
Maximum number of objects returned per list objects request	1000
Maximum number of multipart uploads returned per list multipart uploads request	1000

List of Amazon S3 Bucket API's not supported on Minio.

• BucketACL (Use bucket policies instead)
• BucketCORS (CORS enabled by default)
• BucketLifecycle (Not required for Minio's XL backend)
• BucketReplication (Use mc mirror instead)
• BucketVersions, BucketVersioning (Use s3git)
• BucketWebsite (Use caddy or nginx)
• BucketAnalytics, BucketMetrics, BucketLogging (Use bucket notification APIs)
• BucketRequestPayment
• BucketTagging

List of Amazon S3 Object API's not supported on Minio.

• ObjectACL (Use bucket policies instead)
• ObjectTorrent
• ObjectCopyPart