Terms or components

This feature introduces several new concepts. The meanings of these new concepts and terms are defined here. Other existing terms are also defined for clarity.

Source Bucket

Bucket where objects are copied from. This is where the user configures the replication policy.

Target/Destination Bucket

Bucket where objects are copied to.

Replica

Objects in the Target Bucket that were copied by using replication. These can refer to either object versions or delete markers.

Replication Policy

Configuration on the Source Bucket that specifies how objects are replicated.

Replication Work Item

Internal unit of work that is created for every user I/O that must be replicated (for example: new object writes, nonversioned deletes, tag updates, and so on).

Replication Work Queue

Internal data structure used to schedule/track unfinished replications.

Sync Operations

Background I/O that is performed by the Cloud Object Storage system to replicate object and/or metadata from Source to Destination bucket.