IBM Cloud® Object Storage is a highly scalable and resilient managed data service on IBM Cloud.

Ideal for securely managing massive volumes of data, helping to ensure compliance, and optimizing your cloud storage costs. With built-in encryption, multi-region support, and seamless integration with the powerful IBM Cloud ecosystem, it's the perfect foundation for modern data-driven applications and workloads such as AI, data lakehouses, media content, cloud-native applications, backup and archives.

• Optimize storage costs and data usage: Flexibile storage tiers help to optimize your costs, all with 99.999999999999% (14 9's) of data durability.
• Enhance global availability and resiliency: Select the resiliency option for your location and availability needs, including cross-regional protection with immediate data consistency.
• Boost security and data protection: Role based policies and access permissions help secure data access through encryption key management.

Features

• **Central service for AI and data lakes: **Provides an ideal low-cost data store for AI workloads, natively integrated with the watsonx portfolio.
• **Immutable data retention: **Protect against ransomware and preserve electronic records and data integrity until retention and/or legal requirements are met.
• **Object versioning: **Activate versioning to maintain multiple iterations of an object within a bucket, shielding against inadvertent deletions or alterations.
• **Native geographic resiliency: **Protect data within or across established regions, providing immediate data consistency with no replication lag. 
• **Data replication: **Replicate your object data across customized cloud regions to meet your unique requirements.
• **Fast data transfer: **Improve transfer times with natively integrated IBM Aspera® high-speed data transfer.