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This post will share with you the object storage service.
Introduction to Object Storage Service
This section describes the characteristics of the OBS.
Object Storage Service (OBS) is an object-based storage service that provides customers with massive, secure, reliable, and cost-effective data storage capabilities, such as bucket creation, modification, and deletion, as well as to object upload.
In addition to mainstream block storage and file storage, object storage devices and services are becoming popular in research and promotion. Object storage inherits both the advantages of block storage and file storage since it supports high-speed direct access of disks and distributed shares. Designed to store unstructured data such as documents, pictures, audios, and videos, the object storage service provides massive, secure, reliable, and cost-effective data storage capabilities.
OBS has characteristics of open architecture, simplicity, self-service, high security and reliability.
Open Architecture
Provides universal standard application programming interfaces (APIs) to connect to existing applications of users.
Provides Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs compatible with Amazon S3 to connect to various application programs and store various types of data, such as images, video clips, audio clips, and files. This meets different storage requirements of users.
Simplicity and Self-Service
Enables users to freely upload, download, and manage data on the OBS Console.
High Security and Reliability
· Data consistency scanning: Periodically checks system data in the background without interrupting services and identifies disk data errors early, avoiding data loss caused by silent corruption.
· Data block redundancy: Stores data blocks on different disks in redundant mode, automatically checks data consistency in the background, and repairs damaged data in time.
· Version control: Provides version control and management, avoiding data loss caused by accidental overwriting or deletion by users.
Application Scenarios
This section describes application scenarios of the OBS.
· Backup and active archiving
The OBS provides persistent, scalable, and secure solutions to back up and archive critical user data. Users can protect stored data by using the version control function of the OBS. Persistent and secure infrastructure supports third-party backup and archiving software and aims to provide robust disaster recovery solutions with advanced data protection.
· Other service scenarios
The OBS serves as a storage pool or backup storage for other services, such as the image management service (IMS), volume backup service (VBS), and relational database service (RDS).
Relationship between OBS and Other Services
Figure 1 Relationship between OBS and Other Services shows the relationship between OBS and other cloud services.
Figure1Relationship between OBS and Other Services
NOTE:
OBS can act as the storage resource pool or snapshot backup storage for the following services:
· Relational Database Service (RDS)
· Image Management Service (IMS)
· Cloud Trace Service (CTS)
Depending on the following service, OBS can authenticate users and set permissions for specific users:
· Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Depending on the following service, OBS can notify users that OBS is being used by them through a message:
· Simple Message Notification (SMN)
That's all, thanks!
