About the Hitachi API for Amazon S3

The Hitachi API for Amazon S3 is a RESTful, HTTP-based API that is compatible with Amazon S3. Using this API, you can:

Create buckets (PUT bucket)

List the buckets you own (GET service)

Check the existence of a bucket (HEAD bucket)

Add ACLs to existing buckets (PUT bucket ACL)

Retrieve ACLs for buckets (GET bucket ACL)

Enable or suspend object versioning for buckets you own (PUT bucket versioning)

Check the status of object versioning for buckets you own (GET bucket versioning)

List objects that are in a bucket (GET bucket)

List versions of objects that are in a bucket (GET bucket versions)

List in-progress multipart uploads in a bucket (GET bucket list multipart uploads)

Delete buckets you own, as long as the buckets don’t have any objects in them (DELETE bucket)

Store objects in a bucket (PUT object)

Upload objects using HTML forms into a bucket (POST object)

Create folders in a bucket (PUT object)

Add custom metadata to existing objects, where the custom metadata is specified as property/value pairs (PUT object copy)

Check the existence of an object or folder (HEAD object)

Retrieve custom metadata for objects (HEAD object)

Add ACLs to existing objects (PUT object ACL)

Retrieve ACLs for objects (GET object ACL)

Copy objects (PUT object copy)

Retrieve objects (GET object)

Delete objects (DELETE object)

Perform multipart uploads (POST object initiate multipart upload, PUT object upload part, PUT object upload part copy, and POST object complete multipart upload)

List the parts of in-progress multipart uploads (GET object list parts)

Abort multipart uploads (DELETE object abort multipart upload)

To use the S3 compatible API to perform the operations listed above, you can write applications that use any standard HTTP client library. The S3 compatible API is also compatible with many third-party tools that support Amazon S3. For information about configuring third-party tools for use with the S3 compatible API, see Using third-party tools with the Hitachi API for Amazon S3.

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