Hi Macdoor, I completely agree with Gabor. Currently, the focus is on stabilising native-s3-fs for vanilla S3.
Bests, Samrat On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 6:02 PM Gabor Somogyi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Macdoor, > > MinIO has shifted toward a more enterprise-focused model, and its > open-source edition is now > effectively in maintenance mode (no new features or active development). > This has reduced its > relevance for many users. In Flink, the implicit direction has been to keep > MinIO support mainly for > testing as long as it works, but even that may become hard to sustain given > limited contributor capacity. > > For native S3 connector, the current priority is to deliver a stable, > Hadoop-free implementation focused on > Amazon S3 using AWS SDK v2. This already requires significant effort, and > expanding support to > additional S3-compatible systems at this stage would likely slow down that > goal. > > Your idea of defining support tiers makes sense, but timing is important. > S3-compatible systems are diverging from AWS S3, and supporting them adds > complexity, testing overhead > and maintenance cost. > > Broader compatibility can be revisited later once the core AWS S3 support > is more mature. > For now, contributions toward strengthening the first native S3 > implementation would have the most impact. > > BR, > G >
