Object storage

Object storage is a large, cheap, slower store that infrastructure exposes as buckets.

Object storage is a large, cheap, and slower kind of storage that infrastructure exposes as buckets. At the physical layer, object stores exist beside fast local drives. Infrastructure presents physical storage as block volumes, file shares, and object buckets, and each form trades latency, durability, and cost. Object storage is cheap and durable, and it is slower than a local drive.