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Dell EMC™ PowerScale™ OneFS™ supports the native S3 protocol. With this capability, clients can access OneFS cluster file-based data as objects. PowerScale combines the benefits of traditional NAS storage and emerging object storage to provide an enhanced data-lake capability and cost-effective unstructured data storage solution. OneFS S3 is designed as a first-class protocol, including features for bucket and object operations, security implementation, and management interface.
This document introduces how the S3 API is implemented in OneFS to provide high-performance data access. It introduces the benefits of OneFS S3 and provides applicable use cases. This document also details bucket and object operations, authentication, and the authorization process.