Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage on the APIs.io network is a curated area collecting 11 resources — specifications, tools, and documentation — for this subject.
24 providers on the network work in this area, including Pure Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Rook, Ceph, Backblaze, Amazon S3 API, and 18 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related areas: Cloud Storage and Data Acquisition and Cloud. Browse every area at areas.apis.io.
About this area
Cloud Storage is a topic profile in the API Evangelist Network covering the major cloud and S3-compatible object, file, and block storage APIs. The topic indexes the canonical hyperscaler offerings (Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage) alongside S3-compatible alternatives (Wasabi, Backblaze B2, MinIO, Cloudflare R2, IBM Cloud Object Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces, Linode Object Storage), file storage (Amazon EFS, Google Filestore, Azure Files), and block storage (Amazon EBS, Google Persistent Disk, Azure Managed Disks). It is the parent topic to more specialized profiles in the network such as cloud-storage-and-data-acquisition.
Curated resources (11)
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is the de-facto standard cloud object store. Its REST API at s3.amazonaws.com supports buckets, objects, multipart uploads, lifecycle rules, server- side encryption, replication, and...
Google Cloud Storage
Google Cloud Storage provides unified object storage with the JSON API at storage.googleapis.com. It supports buckets, objects, IAM, customer-managed encryption keys, and Pub/Sub change notifications.
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage offers block, append, and page blob types through the Blob service REST API. It supports access tiers, lifecycle management, lease semantics, and Event Grid integration for change notifications.
Cloudflare R2
Cloudflare R2 is a zero-egress-fee object store with an S3-compatible API. R2 buckets are accessed at
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage provides low-cost object storage with a native B2 API and an S3-compatible API. It is widely used as a backup and media storage target.
Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage
Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage offers S3-compatible object storage at a flat per-TB price with no egress or API request fees. It is positioned as a hot tier replacement for S3.
MinIO
MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object store designed for AI/ML, analytics, and on-premises private cloud use cases. It can be deployed standalone or as a distributed erasure-coded cluster.
IBM Cloud Object Storage
IBM Cloud Object Storage exposes an S3-compatible API and Aspera high-speed transfer integrations. It supports SmartTier placement and Immutable Object Storage.
DigitalOcean Spaces
DigitalOcean Spaces is an S3-compatible object store with a built-in CDN, designed for developers building on the DigitalOcean platform.
Amazon EFS
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) is a managed NFS file system for Linux workloads. The control-plane API manages file systems, mount targets, lifecycle policies, and access points.
Amazon EBS
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides persistent block volumes for EC2. The control-plane API manages volumes, snapshots, encryption, and direct snapshot access.
Related providers (236)
Top 24 of 236 network providers tagged for this area — search the full set on apis.io.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pure Storage | Pure Storage is an American publicly traded technology company specializing in all-flash data storage hardware and software products. The company provides enterprise data storag... | 4 | developing |
| Google Cloud Storage | Object storage service offering high durability, availability, and scalability for storing and accessing data on Google Cloud Platform. | 2 | developing |
| Rook | Rook is a CNCF graduated cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes, providing the platform, framework, and support for Ceph distributed storage systems to natively integr... | 4 | developing |
| Ceph | Ceph is an open source, distributed storage platform that provides unified object, block, and file storage on commodity hardware with no single point of failure. The Ceph Manage... | 1 | minimal |
| Backblaze | Backblaze is a cloud storage and data backup provider offering B2 Cloud Storage - a low-cost, S3-compatible object storage service. Backblaze provides both a native B2 API and a... | 2 | strong |
| Amazon S3 API | Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is an object storage service offering industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance for storing and retrieving an... | 1 | developing |
| Azure Blob Storage | Microsoft Azure Blob Storage is a service for storing large amounts of unstructured object data, such as text or binary data, that can be accessed from anywhere in the world via... | 3 | developing |
| Azure Blob Storage | Microsoft Azure Blob Storage is a service for storing large amounts of unstructured object data, such as text or binary data, that can be accessed from anywhere in the world via... | 3 | developing |
| CubeFS | CubeFS is a CNCF graduated cloud-native distributed file system supporting POSIX, HDFS, and S3-compatible object storage protocols. It provides multi-tenancy, multi-AZ deploymen... | 2 | developing |
| Tigris | Tigris is a globally distributed, multi-cloud, S3-compatible object storage service. Data is automatically placed close to where it is read for low latency worldwide, with no eg... | 6 | thin |
| Wasabi | Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage is an S3-compatible object storage service offering a REST API that mirrors the Amazon S3 API for storing, retrieving, and managing objects and buckets.... | 4 | thin |
| Azure Files | Azure Files is a fully managed cloud file share service from Microsoft Azure that provides hosted SMB and NFS file shares accessible from cloud and on-premises clients using sta... | 2 | minimal |
| Cloudflare | Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. | 54 | strong |
| Amazon EFS | Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, serverless, set-and-forget elastic file system for use with AWS cloud services and on-premises resources. EFS is built to sca... | 1 | strong |
| Amazon EBS | Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. EBS volumes are highly available and reliable storage volumes that ... | 1 | strong |
| Amazon S3 | Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is an object storage service offering industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. | 3 | strong |
| Amazon Storage Gateway | AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that provides on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage. It seamlessly connects on-premises environments to A... | 1 | developing |
| Google Cloud Storage | Google Cloud Storage is a managed service for storing unstructured data such as images, videos, backups, and other binary or text objects. It provides a single API for accessing... | 1 | developing |
| Azure Queue Storage | Azure Queue Storage is a Microsoft cloud service for storing large numbers of messages, enabling decoupled and asynchronous communication between application components. Message... | 1 | developing |
| Dell Technologies | Dell Technologies is a global Fortune 500 technology company that designs, develops, manufactures, and supports a wide range of computing products, including PCs, servers, stora... | 1 | developing |
| NetApp | Collection of NetApp APIs for cloud data services, storage management, and infrastructure. | 14 | developing |
| Google Drive | The Google Drive API allows developers to integrate with Google Drive to create, read, update, and delete files and folders stored in Google Drive. The v3 REST API supports file... | 1 | developing |
| Filebase | Filebase is an S3-compatible object storage and IPFS pinning platform that combines familiar cloud storage APIs with decentralized, blockchain-backed infrastructure. Developers ... | 4 | thin |
| Cloudflare R2 | Cloudflare R2 is S3-compatible object storage with zero egress fees. It provides both an S3-compatible REST API and a Cloudflare API for managing buckets, objects, and storage p... | 2 | thin |
Related areas
Tags: Block Storage, Cloud, Cloud Storage, File Storage, Object Storage, S3 Compatible, Storage.
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