What is an Object Storage File System? (known also as edge storage)

About

Object storage (or object edge storage) is:

• a file system for blob file (binary object) (ie object)
• that are distributed/replicated at several CDN location (at the edge)

File Identifier

In addition to the path, each object possesses a unique, generated and immutable identifier.

This identifier makes it possible to create a distributed file system that is:

• not constrained to a unique physical server.
• replication (Generally 3x to recover from fault)

They are mostly variations or fork of the Hadoop File System that are provided in the cloud (SAAS).

Usage

• Media/web asset hosting and delivery (image, js, css, …)
• Software delivery - Host images, containers, or software libraries that your customers can download. Proxy may also deliver software (Cloudflare max is 512 MB per file ¹⁾ )

Service and Price comparions

This is a quick list of price that is mostly based on:

• total size
• egress (download)
• and API call.

More:

• Comparison
• bandwidth-alliance with Egress Calculator