at lenode we're proud to offer s3 compatible object storage to make it easy and not to mention more affordable to manage both sophisticated storage challenges and simple static data storage so what is object storage well our object storage solution is a highly available s3 compatible offering for storing and accessing data object storage is a departure from a directory based file system on block storage though instead object storage stores files as objects hence the name and they're stored in a flat structure often called buckets alongside their metadata object storage gives each object its own url which can then be used to access the data these urls can either be publicly accessible or they can be private and only accessible to their owner so when should you use object storage well object storage is great for a variety of use cases including static content or content that changes infrequently this can take many forms including static websites content assets backups and other critical data machine learning models and programmatically managed content stores so let's examine these a little deeper static websites and assets object storage excels at providing simple http endpoints for static content using web development frameworks like hugo allow you to quickly build out a site and publish raw html to a bucket additionally you can use our object storage as a means of storing site content and other assets like photos videos and more critical data storage now object storage is the best choice for data that changes infrequently therefore storing your backup files your server logs database dumps or other massive data sets are all ideal use cases another great application for object storage would be something like a nexcloud instance nexcloud is an application that allows you to access your files through a familiar ui mounting your object storage as either the main storage location or as an external storage directory in your next cloud instance will provide you with ample space at a lower cost compared to block storage so why use our object storage solution well it's pretty simple first s3 compatibility our object storage is compatible with the s3 or simple storage solution api and provides you with maximum flexibility and the same performance no matter the size of your buckets scalability sv buckets start at 250 gigabytes and can scale to 50 terabytes per object cluster meaning that you can affordably store vast amounts of data while keeping it accessible and easy to manage availability lenode's object storage is highly available and resilient objects are replicated across multiple servers so they're always accessible even if one of them goes down affordability with no gotchas unlike hyperscale providers who charge an arm and a leg for their s3 solutions lenode keeps it simple offering free inbound transfer and up to one terabyte of outbound transfer all for a reasonable and predictable monthly fee rs3 compatible object storage is as good as it gets it's a simple managed solution that's compatible with other providers it's highly available and the best part of all of it is that it doesn't require any compute units on your lenod account to get set up and don't forget to check out our object storage documentation to learn more [Music] you