Cloud Object Storage¶

IBM Cloud Object Storage is a highly scalable cloud storage service, designed for high durability, resiliency and security. Store, manage and access your data via our self-service portal and RESTful APIs.

Comparable to AWS S3 service

Benefits¶

• Reduce storage costs
• Reduce downtime
• Simple access via REST APIs with object based access for developer
• Secure data using automatic server-side encryption and get encryption options with keys managed by IBM Key Protect key management system, or encryption with keys that you manage.

Use cases¶

• Backup and recovery
• Data archiving
• cloud native app: store large amounts of unstructured IoT data or mobile data
• AI and big data analytics: build data lake for analytics

Getting started¶

Product documentation to learn how to create bucket and access it via API

Analytics¶

• Query data in place: IBM Cloud SQL Query is a fully managed service that lets developers analyze and transform data stored across multiple files in various formats using ANSI SQL statements.
• Perform Apache Spark analytics
• Perform intelligent data discover using Watson Knowledge Catalog

Code¶

A demo of loud object storage as Sink of Kafka topic. cos tutorial and this demo gitops to deploy Kafka connector