Announcing ObjeX | We Built Our Own S3

We at Centro Labs recently built and released ObjeX , our own self-hosted S3-compatible blob storage. It isn't the flashiest thing we've shipped, but it's the piece of infrastructure the rest of our stack now sits on top of. Here's why we built it and what it took to get there. In May 2025, MinIO stripped the admin console from their community edition. In October, they stopped distributing binaries and Docker images entirely. By December, the project entered "maintenance mode." In February 2026,