IBM Cloud Object Storage provides unstructured data storage for cloud applications. Libraries and SDKs support a common set of S3 API functions for connecting new applications to scalable cloud storage and integrating your data into other services on the IBM Watson and Cloud Platform available with Regional and Cross Region resiliency options worldwide.

With IBM Cloud Object Storage Aspera high-speed data transfer, you can improve data transfer performance by quickly transferring data over long distances, and under various network conditions. It is natively integrated into Cloud Object Storage and there is no additional cost for uploading data.

Choose storage classes based on your usage patterns for active, less-active, and cold workloads with Standard, Vault, and Cold Vault respectively. Use Flex class for dynamic data access with usage patterns that are hard to predict. For rarely used data that requires long-term retention, simply set an Archive policy with our existing storage-class tiers allowing you to reduce costs even further with our lowest priced Archive storage.

IBM Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies allow for granular access control at the bucket level using role-based policies. Key Protect support allows customers to have their own managed encryption keys for higher level data security.