Introduction
Object Storages are versatile. We use Object Storages for almost every storage related applications now a days. One important reason is obviously the cheap price, other reasons can be their APIs available for almost every programming language, and so on. But what exactly is an Object Storage? Where can they be useful? Lets try to answer all such questions in this blog post.
Object Storage
What is Object Storage?
Object storage is basically a data storage architecture that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems, which manage data as a file hierarchy, or block storage, which manages data as blocks within sectors and tracks. Each object typically includes the data itself, a variable amount of metadata, and a globally unique identifier.
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