Features Benefits Leverages commodity hardware No lock-in, lower price/GB HDD/node failure agnostic Self healingReliability, data redundancy protecting from failures Unlimited storage Huge & flat namespace, highly scalable read/write accessAbility to serve content directly from storage system Multi-dimensional scalability (scale out architecture)Scale vertically and horizontally-distributed storage Backup and archive large amounts of data with linear performance Account/Container/Object structureNo nesting, not a traditional file system Optimized for scaleScales to multiple petabytes, billions of objects Built-in replication3x+ data redundancy compared to 2x on RAID Configurable number of accounts, container and object copies for high availability Easily add capacity unlike RAID resize Elastic data scaling with ease No central database Higher performance, no bottlenecks RAID not required Handle lots of small, random reads and writes efficiently Built-in management utilities Account Management: Create, add, verify, delete usersContainer Management: Upload, download, verifyMonitoring: Capacity, host, network, log trawling, cluster health Drive auditing Detect drive failures preempting data corruption Expiring objects Users can set an expiration time or a TTL on an object to control access Direct object access Enable direct browser access to content, such as for a control panel Realtime visibility into client requests Know what users are requesting Supports S3 API Utilize tools that were designed for the popular S3 API Restrict containers per account Limit access to control usage by user Support for NetApp, Nexenta, SolidFire Unified support for block volumes using a variety of storage systems Snapshot and backup API for block volumes Data protection and recovery for VM data Standalone volume API available Separate endpoint and API for integration with other compute systems Integration with Compute Fully integrated to Compute for attaching block volumes and reporting on usage