MinIO is
a popular object-storage server that offered compatibility with the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
API. In December 2025, the company behind the project (also named MinIO)
announced
that the project was in maintenance mode and would not accept new changes; it
was archived
completely in February 2026. MinIO users have been hunting for alternatives
since then, but the array of choices can be baffling. While many other projects
aim to fill the space, their strengths and areas of focus tend to vary. Two of
the alternatives—Ceph and Garage—are particularly compelling,
and both offer solid S3 compatibility.
Intelligence View
[$] A look at MinIO alternatives: Ceph and Garage
MinIO is a popular object-storage server that offered compatibility with the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) API. In December 2025, the company behind the project (also named MinIO) announced that the project was in maintenance mode…
1. Sofort-Triage & Abwehrmaßnahmen
SOC Incident Playbook: Vulnerability Remediation & Verification
title: Detect Exploitation - [$] A look at MinIO alternatives: Ceph and Garage
id: ae1bb4be-a82c-4f02-903e-6a3e00d22ce2
status: experimental
description: Automatisch generierte SIEM-Erkennungsregel basierend auf CTI Intelligence
references:
- https://tsecurity.de/
author: iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine
date: 2026-09-26
logsource:
category: network_connection
product: any
detection:
selection:
CommandLine|contains:
- 'exploit'
condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Legitime administrative Zugriffe oder Penetrationstests
level: high
tags:
- attack.initial_accessrule CTI_Threat_Indicator {
meta:
author = "iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine"
date = "2026-09-26"
description = "YARA Signature for "
strings:
$str = "[$] A look at MinIO alternativ" ascii wide
condition:
any of them
}index=security sourcetype IN ("cisco:asa", "pan:traffic", "zeek_conn", "suricata", "WinEventLog:Security")
("A look at MinIO alternatives Ceph and Ga")
| stats count earliest(_time) as first_seen latest(_time) as last_seen by src_ip, dest_ip, dest_host, signature
| eval first_seen=strftime(first_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), last_seen=strftime(last_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
| sort - countmessage: "*A look at MinIO alternatives Ceph and Ga*"CommonSecurityLog
| where Message has "A look at MinIO alternatives Ceph and Ga"
| summarize EventCount = count(), FirstSeen = min(TimeGenerated), LastSeen = max(TimeGenerated) by SourceIP, DestinationIP, DestinationPort, Activity
| extend DetectionRule = "iShareStuff-CTI-Compiled"
| sort by EventCount desc2. Cyber Threat Intelligence & Forensik
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Netzwerk/Remote-Zugriff ohne Vorauthentifizierung möglich.
- 1. Perimeter-Inspektion: Relevante Portfreigaben und exponierte Endpunkte unverzüglich scannen.
- 2. Patch-Applikation: Hersteller-Hotfix einspielen oder betroffene Daemons in isolierte DMZ-Segmente überführen.
- 3. Telemetrie & EDR-Alerts: Prozessaufrufe und Child-Processes auf anomale Shell-Spawns überwachen.