Container Mode

Storage accounts and credentials management
With the introduction of Container Mode, the concept of a storage account is introduced. A storage account is an entity on which users and containers are created. Storage accounts are often the entity that is billed for storage usage.
Access control list
During vault conversion, the system maintains the ACL behavior. You can change the ACL after vault conversion.
Bucket owner
In Container Mode, each bucket must have a bucket owner.
Accounts and conversion to Container Mode
Restrict bucket owner Cloud Object Storage API operations
In Container Mode, by default, the user with bucket "full_control" permission can use S3 to retrieve security information (such as ACL or CORS) or create or delete a bucket.
Account for IO and Service APIs
IP access control
In Container Mode, the system supports both allowed IP and denied IP addresses on the container level.
Container hard quota
In addition to supporting both soft quota and hard quota on the vault level, the system also enforces the hard quota on a container for customers who manage billing-based container usage.
Using the Service APIs and the Manager REST API
Log files
All requests through the Service APIs are logged in the access log with a different interface type.
Impact to system after enabling Container Mode

Parent topic: Container Mode Guide