Was ist OpenStack Swift?

OpenStack Swift - also known as OpenStack Object Storage - is an open source object storage system. It is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license and runs on standardized hardware. OpenStack Swift is used in particular for backing up and archiving unstructured data such as documents, images, audio and video files, e-mail and images of virtual machines. Objects and files are written to several hard disks. The software ensures that the data is replicated across a server cluster. Swift places three copies of each object as standard in a location that is as unique as possible. The order is region, zone, server and then hard disk. This is because if a server or hard disk fails, the content from an active node is moved to a new location in the cluster. The OpenStack Swift system can be scaled horizontally and is accessed via a "REST HTTP API".