An scalable, resilient and secure storage space
Upload your files to a space that you can access via HTTPS, using the OpenStack Swift API. Objects have a software layer that manages metadata, access permissions and intelligent behaviours directly, at the data level. It is the most suitable place to locate your static files for use by your applications, or simply to make them accessible on the web.
Scalable
There’s no need to anticipate the provisioning of the additional storage space to meet your evolving needs. Object Storage provides unlimited space for your applications. Store all types of files, without being constrained by lack of disk space.
Resilient
Your data is distributed within clusters that manage three replicas for each object. These replicas are placed on different disks and servers, to ensure their longevity.
Integrated into your application
All actions can be managed via API, which makes automation very straightforward, and facilitates integration into the application layers that handle your data. The OpenStack Swift libraries, available in your preferred languages, will make this integration easier.
Use cases
How to
Create an object container (or bucket)
swift post repo01
Configure access permissions to make the container public
swift post repo01 --read-acl ".r:*"
Push a file into Object Storage
swift upload repo01 image.jpg
Features
Public or private
By default, containers and their objects are only accessible after authentication. In order to make objects publicly available, you can open up access to them on the web without authentication.
Version control
By managing versions of activatable objects in a container (versioning), you can log changes to your objects and restore previous versions on demand.
Container synchronisation
Synchronise your containers, so your data is the same everywhere. This function can be useful for maintaining data in a consistent state across several regions, for example.
Temporary URL
You can use a temporary URL to provide read or write access to an object, for a given period of time. Once the time period has elapsed, the URL will no longer be valid.
Object expiration dates
Objects can have an expiration date as an attribute. In such cases, the object will simply be deleted once that date has passed.
ACL management
You can configure fine access permissions for objects and containers, by both user and access method.
Static web content
By configuring a container in static mode, OVH's Object Storage will act as a standard web server by first serving "index.html", or presenting an HTML index of the objects' URLs if no "index.html" objects exist by default.
Large objects
With Object Storage, you can store objects of up to several TB with no size limit.
CORS
Using this mechanism managed via code in web browsers, you can provide access to objects from other domain names, separating a website's code from its static objects.
Cheksum
The object metadata automatically incorporates an MD5 signature, in order to ensure the integrity of all transferred objects.
Redirections via DNS
You can redirect to a container in OVH Object Storage by configuring a special entry in your domain name’s DNS zone.
Object Storage Billing
The storage of objects is charged per GB, per hour. The displayed price indicates the cost of a full month of storage. Outgoing traffic from objects is also charged per GB.
