


tax records, backups, etc.)Īpps that leverage extensive metadata on a file Our implementation of object storage is powered by OpenStack’s Swift. It’s possible to mimic folders by using ‘/’ in an object’s name but from a system point of view there is no folder support. Object Storage doesn’t have support for a deep hierarchy objects are stored in containers but containers may not be inside another container. Object Storage excels at handling unstructured data and provides a location for you to store objects to be accessed by instances or if you wish generally online as well. It ensures data integrity, provides data protection, and scales to millions of objects without requiring traditional filesystem management. Object Storage provides the ability to turn any file and any associated metadata into an object accessible by an HTTP API from anywhere.
