A Commercial License
The EOS comes with a commercial license, relieving the considerable obligations of AGPL v3, while still maintaining the benefits - freedom to inspect, freedom to modify, freedom to fork. For companies with production instances of MinIO, the commercial license is the right one - it effectively eliminates potential compliance issues.
Enterprise Hardened Release
Each EOS release is vigorously tested against the key hardware platforms we see in production. It has additional soak time, extensive performance and stress tests to ensure reliability under extreme conditions and extended maintenance and support guarantees, ensuring critical patching and updates over an extended lifecycle.
Direct to Engineering Support via SUBNET
The EOS comes with a unique model - direct-to-engineer, L4 support, 24/7/365. This experience benefits everyone. Communication occurs through the SUBNET portal. Specifically designed for real time issue resolution in the fast paced mission-critical DevOps-centric world it speeds resolution and eliminates friction.
The SUBNET portal replaces traditional ticketing systems with real-time collaboration between our customers and MinIO’s engineering team. The secure communication channel allows for the exchange of logs and certified software binaries, and each conversation is stored so it may be referenced later. Using this approach, MinIO guides customers through critical bug fixes, security patches and other optimizations for their production instances.
The Panic Button
Designed for critical issues impacting production, the Panic Button brings to bear the entire MinIO engineering organization within seconds – 24/7/365. Think of it as an instantaneous SLA.
Healthcheck
Healthcheck provides a graphical user interface to key supportability components while automatically running dozens of checks on your MinIO instance to ensure it is running optimally. Healthcheck catalogs every component from hardware to software to ensure consistency within any given pool and flagging those instances where there are discrepancies. Within these categories, many performance or integration issues can be quickly identified. This speeds root cause analysis and remediation.
Security
MinIO uses rigorous internal software processes and feedback from our massive global community to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities and production impacting bugs. Commercial customers get customized attention on how to adopt security patches and adapt to the constantly changing security landscape.
Long Term Support
Enterprise clients with more than a petabyte on MinIO receive security and bug fixes for releases going back five years. This gives our largest production clients the confidence to use MinIO to drive their most mission-critical workloads.
Unlimited Seats, Unlimited Issues
MinIO is priced on capacity. Everything else is included and is unlimited. That applies to seats and issues. This approach ensures that developers, IT, security teams and support personnel - can all participate. Further, in order to deliver the most frictionless experience, there is no limit on the number of issues that can be raised or by whom. We encourage our clients to add everyone relevant to the platform to optimize their investment in MinIO.
Annual Reviews of Architecture, Performance and Security
No one knows MinIO better than MinIO. No one knows your business better than you do. Together, we can review your MinIO deployments annually and optimize your performance, your security and your resilience - if there is anything we missed in our day to day interactions.
Speedtest
Everyone knows MinIO is the world’s fastest object storage, but only EOS customers have access to MinIO engineers to collaboratively assess results of our automated speedtest suite. Speedtest is built into the EOS and automatically load-tests clusters to determine if there are gaps between expected and actual performance. Used in conjunction with the rest of the EOS features, commercial customers have the fastest, most thoroughly optimized instances of MinIO in production.
Call Home
The optional call-home feature monitors your hardware regularly, alerting you to any potential issues before they become critical. Enabling call-home diagnostics allows you to receive a daily report on the health of your cluster, which is made available on SUBNET. This feature uploads diagnostics reflecting the cluster’s status over the previous 24-hour period to SUBNET without impacting application performance or burdening your system.
In addition to these benefits, MinIO’s EOS has exclusive features that are designed for large scale, mission critical data infrastructure where nothing is left to chance. Those include:
Catalog
The MinIO Enterprise Catalog feature solves the problem of object storage namespace and metadata search. Using the catalog, operators can index, organize and search a vast number of objects using the familiar and blazingly fast GraphQL interface. It allows administrators to know exactly what is going on with their data for any number of governance, audit, compliance or related tasks – all in real time.
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Firewall
The MinIO Enterprise Firewall feature is purpose-built for the data. Unlike traditional firewalls which are IP-based or application-oriented, the Enterprise Firewall is designed for the scale of an object store with the awareness of S3 to facilitate rules that make sense for the enterprise administrator from TLS termination, load balancing, access control and QOS capabilities at object level granularity.
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Key Management System
The MinIO Enterprise Key Management Server is a highly available, operationally simple, KMS implementation. The Enterprise KMS solves the specific problem of dealing with billions of cryptographic keys that are required for per-object encryption. Highly available and fault tolerant, it supports multi-tenancy enabling each tenant to be assigned its own enclave which is completely independent and isolated from all other enclaves on the KMS cluster.
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Cache
The MinIO Enterprise Cache feature operates as a caching service that uses server DRAM memory to create a distributed shared cache for ultra high-performance workloads. Purpose-built for MinIO object storage, applications requesting objects don’t have to do anything; it will just work once enabled or configured. This is a key feature in the world of AI where GPUs should never starve.
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Observability
The MinIO Enterprise Observability suite is a complete, data infrastructure-centric collection of metrics, audit logs, error logs and traces. This allows administrators to view all system components (OS, CPU, memory, drives, network) across every instance, cluster and erasure code set. It really has to be seen to be appreciated. It enables a single administrator to manage exabytes of infrastructure.
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Enterprise Console
Each of these features is managed by the new Enterprise Console. The Enterprise Console serves as a single pane of glass for all the organization's instances of MinIO including public clouds, private clouds, edge and colo instances. This enables enterprise customers of MinIO to manage (deploy, configure, upgrade and monitor) large-scale, technologically and geographically diverse storage infrastructure from a single, intuitive location.
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