Self-Hosted S3 with SeaweedFS

A data platform needs object storage: the S3-compatible bucket layer that holds a data lake&rsquo;s raw files, the destination for database and stream backups, and the storage under the lakehouse tables coming next. The 2020 edition built this on MinIO. I would not start there today. Over 2025 MinIO took its own open-source edition apart, piece by piece, so this platform uses SeaweedFS, and it…