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Using mc to Migrate Data to/from AWS Snowball

Harshavardhana Harshavardhana on S3 15 January 2020

As data has grown, so has the challenge associated with moving it. Indeed, the bandwidth costs to migrate a PB of data out of AWS would be more than keeping it there for years. Still, customers often need to move large amounts (100s of TBs up to PBs) with some frequency. Amazon knows this and has, in their intensely customer

Relaxing the 32-Node Restriction on MinIO

Harshavardhana Harshavardhana on Modern Data Lakes 6 January 2020

MinIO previously imposed a much-discussed 32-node per cluster limit, which we lifted in December. There was no hard technical reason for the 32-node limit — you can use MinIO to create 1,000 node clusters. That reason we imposed the limit was to drive good architectural decisions. We learned, however, that some saw this as a limitation (indeed some competitors suggested