About Swift
Swift is an object/blob store. Organizations can use it to store data efficiently, safely, and cheaply. The documentation is generated by the Sphinx toolkit and lives in the source tree. Additional documentation on Swift and other OpenStack components is available on the OpenStack wiki and docs site.
Used for
- Storing lots of data
- Managing objects and containers
- Creating a static website
- Paging through large lists of containers or objects
- Performing bulk delete operations
Who it is for
- Organizations seeking to store data
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Quick Facts
docs.openstack.org/swift/latestCategoryCloud Infrastructure
SubcategoryCloud Storage & Backup
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