S3-Compatible Storage

The principle of S3: Data is placed in many containers (bucket). The contents of any container can be viewed, moved or deleted. Each container and object has an address in the form of a unique identifier. It is used as a key to access the data. These keys can have any string value. If necessary, you can make the keys contain important information for your work, such as whether the object belongs to a project.

You can also assign tags to objects in each container. Each object can have several tags of different types. This is useful if you want to describe it as precisely as possible. For example, you can create an audio file with tags for artist name, song titles, album name, and other information. These metadata are further indexed, which makes the search of the necessary objects by the specified criteria easier and times faster. Besides, there is no tangled hierarchical file system with complex and long addresses to work with.

The S3 object repository can store data of any type and content. It is most often used to store unstructured data: images, video, audio, program code, document archives, etc.

S3 object storage can store data of any type and content. It is most often used to store unstructured data: images, video, audio, program code, document archives, etc.

The main difference is that in order to use Compute Cloud disk you have to create a cloud virtual machine to access the disk, whereas Object Storage does not require you to create and configure a virtual machine.

Another difference is the approach to disk storage Compute Cloud has a standard file system, while Object Storage uses an ID- and tag-based system.

File-based storage follows strict file protocols such as SMB, NFS, and iSCSI. Object repositories are based on a flat structure and provide access to objects with metadata through unique identifiers, making them easier to find among the potentially billions of other objects.

You need special software to use an object repository and it is more suitable for interacting with software than with the end user. The structure of the file storage is clear to the user and can be accessed, for example, through Windows Explorer or another file manager.

In object storage, it is possible to grant access to each specific object individually or to a group of objects, whereas this is not possible for file storage.

The object storage can dynamically increase its volume, while our file storage has a fixed volume and must be increased manually, through the private cabinet.

There are also differences in the way of charging for storage: for file storage the user pays a fixed amount which depends on the storage volume; for object storage you also pay for the traffic consumed.

File-based storage follows strict file protocols such as SMB, NFS, and iSCSI. Object repositories are based on a flat structure and provide access to objects with metadata through unique identifiers, making them easier to find among the potentially billions of other objects.

You need special software to use an object repository and it is more suitable for interacting with software than with the end user. The structure of the file storage is clear to the user and can be accessed, for example, through Windows Explorer or another file manager.

In object storage, it is possible to grant access to each specific object individually or to a group of objects, whereas this is not possible for file storage.

The object storage can dynamically increase its volume, while our file storage has a fixed volume and must be increased manually, through the private cabinet.

There are also differences in the way of charging for storage: for file storage the user pays a fixed amount which depends on the storage volume; for object storage you also pay for the traffic consumed.

The main difference between storage classes is the speed of access to data and the cost per storage unit.

Our company offers the following storage classes:

• Standard - Provides standard data access speed.

Suitable for data with medium access intensity: corporate file archives, annual/monthly reports, small workgroup documents, backups, system messages, and long files.

• Fast - Provides high speed access to data.

Suitable for data with regular access: corporate files, current reporting, workgroup documents, disk images, multimedia files.

• NVMe SSD - Provides the fastest data access speed.

Suitable for media streaming, storage for Backend platforms, hosting static files and websites, data storage for processing (Big Data, Data Mining).

The higher the storage performance class, the higher the cost per volume unit.