Primitive
Object Storage
Stores unstructured data as objects in a flat namespace, accessed over HTTP, with effectively unlimited capacity.
Description
Object storage (AWS S3, GCP Cloud Storage, Azure Blob) shares the same model: key-addressed objects over HTTP with very high durability, versioning, and lifecycle policies. The differences are largely conceptual — each has its own storage classes/tiers for hot, infrequent, and archival data, its own consistency and replication guarantees, and its own regional/multi-region bucket scoping and egress pricing. To the best of our knowledge these are interchangeable for most workloads; the deciding factors are storage-tier fit, data-residency needs, and the cost of moving data in and out.
Capabilities
- Store arbitrarily large blobs (images, backups, logs)
- HTTP/S API access with per-object keys
- Versioning and lifecycle policies
- High durability across zones