Inspiration, copy or clone for Azure

Wow, after mc command line, a commercial object storage vendor copies again what MinIO is doing for Azure. In fact, the MinIO idea here was and is to promote S3 as THE interface for object storage leveraging the AWS de-factor standard whatever is the object back-end. To summarize what MinIO is capable, check this list, it illustrates lots of combinations and why MinIO leads the object storage pack:

• "Classic" MinIO object storage server,
• MinIO Gateway for S3 for caching acting as a front-end of AWS S3 or any S3 compatible instance,
• MinIO Gateway for Azure as a front-end of Azure Blob Storage,
  
• MinIO Gateway for NAS as a front-end of NAS - NFS and/or SMB - offering mixed-protocol data access between NFS and S3,
• MinIO Gateway for HDFS as a front-end of Hadoop HDFS farm offering mixed-protocol data access between S3 and HDFS API.

Nothing for GCP (yet) as a compatibility mode exists even if there is no direct plugged mode if you use some specific S3 features. But again it's interesting to see how MinIO drives the market representing innovation in this storage domain...