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Cloud Storage
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.
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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 event notifications.
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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.
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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.
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Cloudflare R2
Cloudflare R2 is a zero-egress-fee object store with an S3-compatible API. R2 buckets are accessed at
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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DigitalOcean Spaces
DigitalOcean Spaces is an S3-compatible object store with a built-in CDN, designed for developers building on the DigitalOcean platform.
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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.
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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.
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Providers working in Cloud Storage
Providers whose own tags share at least two of this topic's tags, most shared first — the top 30 of 65.
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| 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 storage platforms including FlashArray, FlashBlade, and Pure1 fleet… | strong | 3 |
| Google Cloud Storage | Object storage service offering high durability, availability, and scalability for storing and accessing data on Google Cloud Platform. | strong | 1 |
| 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 integrate with cloud-native environments. It automates the deploymen… | developing | 1 |
| Cubbit | Cubbit is a European cloud storage provider offering DS3, a sovereign, geo-distributed, S3-compatible object storage platform. DS3 encrypts (AES-256), fragments, and replicates data across multiple user-selected locations using Reed-Solomo… | thin | 1 |
| StorONE | StorONE builds S1, a software-defined enterprise storage platform that consolidates block, file and object storage onto a single hardware-agnostic engine, with auto-tiering across flash and disk, snapshots, replication, erasure coding and… | thin | 1 |
| XSKY | XSKY (XSKY Data Technology, 星辰天合) is a Beijing-based software-defined storage vendor serving nearly 2,000 large government and enterprise institutions, ranked first in China's object-storage software market. Its distributed storage product… | thin | 1 |
| 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 Manager (ceph-mgr) ships with a RESTful API that exposes the same op… | thin | 1 |
| 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 HTTP or HTTPS. | strong | 1 |
| MinIO | MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage system built for large-scale AI, analytics, and cloud-native data infrastructure. Its API is a drop-in implementation of the Amazon S3 REST API (bucket and object operations, multip… | developing | 2 |
| Azure Storage Accounts | Azure Storage is Microsoft's cloud storage solution for modern data storage scenarios offering highly available, massively scalable, durable, and secure storage for blobs, files, queues, tables, and disks. | developing | 2 |
| 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 an S3-compatible API, enabling developers to build applications… | developing | 7 |
| Impossible Cloud | Impossible Cloud is a European sovereign cloud platform headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, providing S3-compatible object storage (11 nines durability, Object Lock/WORM, no egress or API-call fees), bare metal NVIDIA GPU servers, and manag… | developing | 1 |
| 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 deployment, cross-region replication, and erasure coding for both hot a… | developing | 2 |
| 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 policies at global scale. R2 offers a generous free tier includ… | developing | 2 |
| Filebase | Filebase is an S3-compatible object storage and IPFS pinning platform that combines familiar cloud storage APIs with decentralized, blockchain-backed infrastructure. Developers can store, manage, and pin files to IPFS using standard S3 too… | developing | 4 |
| 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 egress fees. The storage API speaks the AWS S3 protocol at https… | thin | 1 |
| Qumulo | Qumulo is an enterprise data platform company that delivers a single, unified file and object storage system spanning on-premises data centers, the edge, and the public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) at exabyte scale. Every Qumulo cluster exposes… | thin | 1 |
| 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 standard file system protocols and the FileREST HTTPS API. It sup… | thin | 1 |
| Inspur Cloud | Inspur Cloud (浪潮云) is the public-cloud arm of the Chinese IT conglomerate Inspur Group, operating from cloud.inspur.com across the cn-north-3 (华北三), cn-south-1 (华南一) and cn-east-1 (华东一) regions. It publishes a broad IaaS/PaaS catalog — 94… | thin | 18 |
| 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. Wasabi provides always-consistent storage at lower cost than… | thin | 4 |
| EMC | EMC Corporation, acquired by Dell Technologies in 2016 and now operating as Dell EMC, builds enterprise storage, data management and data protection platforms — ECS/ObjectScale object storage, Unity, VNX, PowerMax (VMAX lineage), PowerScal… | thin | 2 |
| CTERA | CTERA operates the CTERA Intelligent Data Platform, a unified edge-to-cloud global file system and data fabric for managing unstructured file data across distributed enterprises. The platform combines secure file collaboration, cyber prote… | thin | 1 |
| OpenIO | OpenIO SDS is an open-source, software-defined object storage platform for building hyper-scalable, high-performance storage infrastructures. It stores data across commodity hardware and exposes it through an Amazon S3-compatible gateway a… | emerging | 1 |
| Avere Systems | Avere Systems was a Pittsburgh-based enterprise storage company building hybrid cloud NAS technology, best known for its FXT Series Edge filers and the vFXT virtual appliance that accelerated and tiered file workloads across on-premises NA… | minimal | 0 |
| Elastifile | Elastifile was an enterprise cloud file-storage company founded in 2013 in Tel Aviv, Israel. It built a software-defined, scale-out distributed file system (the Elastifile Cloud File System / ECFS) that delivered elastic, high-performance… | minimal | 0 |
| Bitcasa | Bitcasa, Inc. was an American cloud storage company (founded 2011 in St. Louis, Missouri; later based in Mountain View, California) known for its converged/infinite storage model and, for developers, the CloudFS API — a white-label cloud-s… | 0 | |
| Amazon Lightsail | Amazon Lightsail is a virtual private server (VPS) provider and is the easiest way to get started with AWS for developers, small businesses, students, and other users who need a solution to build and host their applications on cloud. Light… | exemplar | 2 |
| Cloudflare | Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. | exemplar | 24 |
| Amazon S3 | Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is an object storage service offering industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. | exemplar | 2 |
| NexGen Cloud | NexGen Cloud Limited is a UK-headquartered AI cloud and GPU infrastructure provider. Its on-demand platform, Hyperstack, sells NVIDIA GPU and CPU virtual machines, managed Kubernetes clusters, block storage volumes, S3-compatible object st… | strong | 3 |
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