Cloud solution

Information stored with IBM Cloud Object Storage on the IBM Cloud is encrypted and dispersed across multiple geographic locations, and accessed over HTTP using a REST API. This service makes use of the distributed storage technologies provided by IBM's Cloud Object Storage System.

IBM COS is available with two types of resiliency: Cross Region and Regional. Cross Region provides higher durability and availability than using a single region at the cost of slightly higher latency, and is available today in the US and EU. Regional service reverses those tradeoffs, and distributes objects across multiple availability zones within a single region, and is available in the US South and US East regions. If a given region or availability zone is unavailable, the object store continues to function without impediment.

Developers use an IBM COS API to interact with their object storage. The IBM Cloud Documentation provide support to get started with provisioning accounts, to create buckets, to upload objects, and to use a reference of common API interactions.