About OBS
Comparison Between OBS and On-Premises Storage Servers
In this information era, it becomes increasingly difficult for conventional on-premises storage servers to deal with the fast growing data of enterprises. Table 1 compares OBS with on-premises storage servers.
Table 1 Comparison between OBS and on-premises storage servers
Item
OBS
On-Premises Storage Server
Storage capacity
OBS provides unlimited storage capacity, with data centers deployed across the world. All services and storage nodes are deployed in distributed clusters. You can expand each node or cluster separately, and you never have to worry about running out of space.
Such servers provide confined storage space due to the limited capacity of the hardware devices they use. When the storage space is not sufficient, you need to buy extra disks for manual expansion.
Security
OBS uses HTTPS and SSL protocols and encrypts data during uploads. To keep data transmission and access safe, OBS uses access key IDs (AKs) and secret access keys (SKs) to authenticate user identities and adopts IAM permissions, bucket policies, access control lists (ACLs), and uniform resource locator (URL) validation.
The owner and users are exposed to security risks from cyber attacks, technical vulnerabilities, and accidental operations.
Reliability
The OBS five-level reliability architecture ensures up to 99.9999999999% of durability and up to 99.995% of continuity, much higher than those of the conventional architecture.
Due to limited investment, on-premises storage servers cannot ensure reliability at all levels of media, servers, cabinets, data centers, and regions. Once there is a failure or disaster, it may cause irreversible data loss to enterprises.
Costs
OBS is an out-of-the-box service that has no initial capital investment or time or labor costs and frees you from O&M.
You only need to pay as you go. OBS offers tiered-pricing, meaning the more you use, the more you will save.
The initial deployment of on-premises servers requires high investments and a long construction period, but it quickly lags behind as enterprise businesses change so fast. Additional expenditures are required to ensure security.
How to Access OBS
OBS provides various resource management tools. You can use any of the tools listed in Table 2 to access and manage resources in OBS.
Table 2 OBS resource management tools
Tool
Description
How to Use
OBS Console
OBS Console is a web-based GUI for you to easily manage OBS resources.
OBS Browser (abandoned)
OBS Browser has been abandoned since April 15, 2020. Its functions are inherited by the new client tool OBS Browser+ that provides you with better user experience. Download the latest OBS Browser+. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.
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OBS Browser+
OBS Browser+ is an OBS management tool running on the Windows operating system. OBS Browser+ is also a GUI tool that allows you to manage OBS locally and easily.
obsutil
obsutil is a command line tool for accessing OBS. You can use this tool to perform common configurations in OBS. If you are familiar with command line interface (CLI), obsutil is recommended as an ideal tool for batch processing and automated tasks.
obsfs
obsfs, built on the basis of Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE), is a file system tool provided by OBS for mounting parallel file systems to Linux operating systems. It enables you to easily access the infinite storage space in OBS in the same way as you operate a local file system.
SDKs
OBS SDKs encapsulate APIs provided by OBS to simplify user development. Users can directly use API functions provided by the OBS SDKs to obtain the OBS service capabilities.
APIs
With APIs, you can easily access OBS from web applications. By making API calls, you can upload and download data anytime, anywhere, or through any Internet device.
Application Scenarios
OBS solves complex object data storage problems for any scenario
Analysis of Large, Diverse Datasets
OBS provides an elastic storage system that is scalable in real time. When used in combination with big data services on Huawei Cloud, it can dramatically reduce your costs, accelerate innovation, and make data management easier.
Advantages
Static Website Hosting
OBS offers an affordable and always-available website hosting solution, with auto scaling to cope with variable site traffic. You can use OBS together with CDN and ECS to quickly construct your websites or applications with separately managed dynamic and static content.
Advantages
Advantages
Build demanding web and mobile applications without any limitations on data storage
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Peace of Mind
Achieve up to 12 nines (99.9999999999%) of data durability and 99.995% of service availability.
Achieve up to 12 nines (99.9999999999%) of data durability and 99.995% of service availability.
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Guard Data with Strong Security
With secure authentication, encryption, URL validation, and fine-grained permission control, keep your data safe and protected in storage or during transfer.
With secure authentication, encryption, URL validation, and fine-grained permission control, keep your data safe and protected in storage or during transfer.
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High Efficiency
Enjoy high-performance data storage options with 10 million TPS, 2.4 Gbit/s single-stream upload, and less than 10 ms latency for uploading small objects.
Enjoy high-performance data storage options with 10 million TPS, 2.4 Gbit/s single-stream upload, and less than 10 ms latency for uploading small objects.
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Ease of Use
OBS provides REST APIs and software development kits (SDKs) in multiple languages, and is compatible with all mainstream clients. With it, you can upload, download, and manage your data anytime, and from anywhere.
OBS provides REST APIs and software development kits (SDKs) in multiple languages, and is compatible with all mainstream clients. With it, you can upload, download, and manage your data anytime, and from anywhere.
Videos
Uploading/Downloading (OBS Console)
02:46
Uploading/Downloading (OBS Browser)
03:33
OBS Permission Control
04:22
OBS API Quick Start
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