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Basic Concepts
This section provides a brief summary of the basic concepts in Object Storage.

Region
A region is a cluster deployment of servers, complete with its own API endpoints, networks and compute resources. Currently we have one region based in Oregon (us-west-1).

Bucket
It defines a namespace for objects. An object with the same name in two different buckets represents two different objects. You can create any number of buckets within an account.

Objects
It stores data, such as documents, images, and so on. You can also store custom metadata with an object. Each object can be as large as 5 GB.

Sub Accounts (Users)
Sub accounts are created by the account owner (root user) to provide web console and API access to other users. Sub accounts can be created from the User Management section of IDrive Cloud Console. Account owner can perform the following actions on a sub account from the console

  • Create a new sub account
  • Delete an existing sub account
  • Grant / revoke the (S3 or Swift) API access
  • Grant/ revoke the console access

S3 and Swift Keys

Before performing any operation either via APIs or clients, users need to generate either S3 keys & secret or Swift API key, which will be used to confirm the identity of a user. These keys can be generated from the Profile Details section under Settings using IDrive Cloud Console. Account owners can create, update and delete keys for other users of that account.