Introducing MinIO Academy: Your Gateway to Object Storage Mastery
In today's data-driven world, object storage has emerged as the foundation for modern workloads including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and data lakehouse analytics. This is evidenced by the fact that all the major Large Language Models—OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, etc.—are all built on object stores. And as organizations continue to innovate with modern analytics and AI/ML workloads, generating petabytes and even exabytes of unstructured data, the demand for skilled professionals who can efficiently manage and optimize object storage solutions has never been greater.
Today, we're addressing that need with the launch of MinIO Academy – a centralized education hub that brings together training resources, documentation, and blogs in one location with role-specific content tailored to the needs of different stakeholders in the MinIO ecosystem. It is designed to empower administrators, developers, data scientists, and partners with the knowledge and skills needed to master the MinIO high-performance object storage platform. MinIO Academy consists of three programs—the MinIO Learning Subscription, the MinIO Partner Academy, and the flagship program offering, the Quick Start Program, which is a no-cost learning experience that provides both the training and an AIStor trial license to quickly get up and running.
The Academy serves as both an introduction to MinIO for newcomers and a deep-dive resource for experienced users looking to expand their expertise. Whether you're an administrator responsible for deployment and maintenance, a developer integrating applications with object storage, or a data engineer working with large datasets, MinIO Academy provides the educational resources you need to succeed.
Why MinIO Academy Matters
MinIO Academy reflects our commitment to helping users get the most from MinIO's power and simplicity. We believe that well-informed users get the most value from our technology, which is why we've invested in creating this comprehensive learning environment.
With AI adoption proliferating across the enterprise and object storage becoming the de facto standard for data-intensive AI workloads, there's a growing skills gap that organizations need to address. MinIO Academy directly tackles this challenge by providing specialized training for professionals working with petabyte and even exabyte namespaces.
MinIO Academy also provides insight into MinIO AIStor, our commercial offering that delivers hyper-performant, software-defined, exascale object storage to major enterprises. MinIO is also a native platform for AI applications including Huggingface, Apache Spark, ML Flow, and Iceberg.
What's Included in MinIO Academy?
MinIO Academy offers three distinct learning programs designed to meet you wherever you are in your object storage journey:
1. Quick Start Program (Free)
The flagship offering of MinIO Academy, the Quick Start program provides everything you need to quickly get AIStor up and running. The program is the perfect complement to the AIStor Trial, which offers a 60-day non-production license for learning and exploration. This program includes more than 30 videos, 7 hands-on labs, and integrates other key MinIO resources including relevant blogs and docs. The program includes three tracks:
AIStor Deployment and Administration - installation, versioning, and object lifecycle management, and bucket and site replication. Complete the path and assessment to earn the MinIO Quick Start for AIStor Administrators badge
AIStor for Developers - connecting to the S3 API, using the Python SDK, and data transfer and streaming
Artificial Intelligence and AIStor - AI storage architecture, RAG applications, building and training models and pipelines, administration using Model Context Protocol (MCP)
2. MinIO Learning Subscription ($700/year)
For those ready to dive deeper and run AIStor in production, our annual subscription for just $700 per learner unlocks the equivalent of 12 days of comprehensive training, including:
Expert-Developed Training: Content created by product experts with years of production development and administration experience with new content published monthly. Many advanced topics including:
- Cluster expansion
- Troubleshooting
- Deploying a Key Management System
- Recovering from site failure
- Kubernetes deployment and administration
- Leveraging the AIStor SDKs for JEE, Javascript, Go, C++, and .Net
Video Library: More than 200 videos covering all aspects of MinIO, equivalent to 12 days of classroom training.
Hands-On Labs: Practice in a real-world environment using Docker compose scripts for a turn-key lab structure accompanied with detailed guided instructions and expert challenge labs.
Enterprise Trial License: Ongoing access to AIStor for learning and non-production use, refreshed every 60 days to ensure you always have the latest release.
Certification Voucher: Each subscription includes a voucher for the MinIO Certified Administrator Exam.
Cost: Just $700 per learner with discounts starting at 10 learners.
3. MinIO Partner Academy
Designed specifically as an on-ramp for accredited resellers, integrators, technology partners, and ISVs. This specialized track ensures our partners have the knowledge they need to integrate and implement MinIO AIStor solutions.
MinIO Certified Administrator
The MinIO Certified Administrator program is a key component of MinIO Academy and is included with the Learning Subscription through a certification exam voucher. Earning this recognized digital credential demonstrates your ability to deliver secure, scalable, and trusted MinIO solutions, while validating your expertise in deployment, object lifecycle management, replication, security, and recovery.
For professionals, certification offers career growth opportunities and positions you as skilled in cloud-native computing. For organizations, having certified team members ensures deployment success, increases data availability and protection, improves employee retention, and validates job role competency.
Join the Journey
As object storage becomes the backbone of modern AI and data-intensive applications, MinIO Academy helps you stay ahead. Whether you want to advance your career or optimize your organization's infrastructure, the Academy gives you the skills to succeed.
Start your learning journey today at min.io/academy.
