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Object Storage: Quick Start

You can work with object storage in the control panel and through the API.

  1. Create a container.
  2. Optional: configure access to the container.
  3. Optional: customize the limits.
  4. Optional: select a tool to work with the repository.
  5. Load the objects into the container.

1. Create a container⁠

  1. Replenish your balance.

  2. In the Control Panel, on the top menu, click Products and select Object Storage.

  3. Go to the Containers section.

  4. Click Create Container.

  5. Enter the name of the container. For S3 API compatibility, the container name must meet the conditions:

    • Be unique among the containers of all users that use the storage over S3 and are hosted in the same pool;
    • comply with Amazon S3 Bucket naming rules — contain only numbers, letters of the Latin alphabet, symbols . and -, for more information see the Bucket naming rules in the Amazon documentation.

  6. Select the region and pool where the container will be created.

  7. Select the type of container:

    • private — for storing backups and other data with access by login and password or authorization token;
    • public — for sharing the content of a website or web application, available without authorization.

  8. Select a storage class:

    • standard storage — for storing and distributing frequently requested data;
    • cold storage — for storing rarely requested data.

    The storage class only affects the cost of resources, technically and speed-wise the classes are the same. Once a container is created, the storage class cannot be changed.

  9. If you need a container with Virtual-Hosted addressing to work with the S3 API, select vHosted in the Addressing Type block . You can enable Virtual-Hosted addressing only once.

  10. If you want versioning to be enabled in the container, in the Data Protection block, check the Versioning checkbox.

  11. Click Create Container.

2. Optional: customize access to the container⁠

For more information about access control, see the Manage Access in Object Storage tutorial.

  1. Add users with the appropriate roles.
  2. Configure the container access policy.

3. Optional: set limits⁠

You can set limits on the number of objects, the total size of objects, and specify the object storage time, see the Container Limits instructions for details.

4. Optional: select a tool to work with the repository⁠

Customize tools — such as the FTP protocol, Rclone client, AWS CLI, and others — for ease of use and to increase the speed of downloading objects.

5. Load objects⁠

Use the Load Object instruction.