Overview
Build cloud-native apps
IBM Cloud Object Storage elastic scale infrastructure is ideal for storing large amounts of unstructured data. It offers a distributed, API-accessible storage with simple integration in the IBM Cloud® to make it easy for developers to quickly integrate cloud-native application to flow and efficiently update application components.
Scalable cloud storage
Performance, portability and speed
Bare metal
Maximum performance and control
Virtual server
Leverage existing languages and tools
Containers
Maximum portability
Platform as a service
Extensive runtime options
Severless
Maximum speed with serverless apps
Common use cases
Modernize applications
Modernize applications
Transform legacy applications to run in the cloud. Fear of data loss can be virtually eliminated due to resiliency and encryption options that help ensure data protection.
Build smart applications
Build smart applications
Use IBM Cloud Object Storage for cloud data storage for data-centric mobile applications and to collect and store large amounts of unstructured IoT data for your smart device applications.
Features
Key capabilities that enable this use case
Limitless scale
Store your content data including media files, images, videos, documents and data sets in native format and without limits.
Storage-bucket connections
Provision an IBM Cloud Object Storage account and bucket to create credentials and bind the Kubernetes service to the storage bucket.
Microservices on the IBM Cloud
Leverage microservices using cloud workload patterns such as Docker, Cloud Foundry and IBM Cloud Functions, based on Apache OpenWhisk®.
API-accessible storage
The IBM Cloud Object Storage API is a REST-based API that supports a common set of S3 API functions for programmatic access.
Security and encryption
IBM Cloud Object Storage is secured using IBM Identity and Access Management and offers integrated support for policies and permissions.
Resiliency options
Information is encrypted and dispersed across multiple locations. Applications can be deployed with data automatically following.