The object access service lets you store and retrieve the data that is stored in Veritas Access using the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) protocol. Veritas Access offers unified access, which includes the option to share a file system or a directory in a file system that you can access using both NFS and S3 protocol. You can access data using either of the protocols with a single domain credential.

A bucket maps to a directory inside Veritas File System and an object maps to a file. The object access service in Veritas Access provides a REST interface. Buckets and objects are created, fetched, and deleted using standard HTTP requests.

Figure: Workflow of the object access service

Features of the object access service:

• High availability

• Multipart uploading

• Concurrent access from multiple nodes

• Concurrent access of the same data over NFS and S3

• Canned Access Control Lists