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Lyve Cloud Object Storage offers several features designed to support a variety of use cases. Customers can easily store, analyze, and manage data on secure, cost-efficient Seagate storage. Lyve Cloud provides an object storage solution that allows customers to move data to and from storage buckets through an HTTPS protocol. Admins can easily manage bucket access with user-specific access control lists. With a flexible application programming interface (API), customers can plug in their favorite S3-compatible applications to store data, run big data analytics, audit storage activity, and manage users across the platform.
Lyve Cloud Object Storage breaks away from traditional storage classes to provide uninterrupted data movement. Objects can be uploaded, downloaded, updated, and erased anytime. Using S3 Select API calls, customers can easily connect to third-party clients to move and manage data. Applications are authenticated to Lyve Cloud Object Storage using an access key and secret key provisioned at service account creation. Once authenticated, applications will access buckets and objects using the defined permissions set in the service account (read-only, write-only, or all operations).
| Bucket logs | All S3 API activity and actions are tracked with bucket logs. Bucket logs record all S3-supported API calls and activities on the console. |
| Object immutability and versioning | Lyve Cloud Object Storage offers features to help prevent unintended data modifications and provide versioning. Using object immutability prevents objects from being deleted or overwritten by any user, including the account owner, for a specified retention duration. Object immutability also supports Amazon S3 Object Lock to reinforce Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) policies. Customers can enable object Immutability at bucket creation, which also activates versioning. Versioning allows customers to protect, recover, and restore every iteration of an object stored in a bucket in case of accidental deletions or failures. Versioning remains enabled even if object Immutability is later disabled. |
| Global account management | Global accounts allow customers to create buckets in different regions or service accounts to access different regional buckets. Lyve Cloud Object Storage also offers true replication of buckets across regions. This allows customers to have their data stored and accessible in multiple regions simultaneously. These functions provide simplified management of multiple regions on the console and the ability to increase redundancy and availability. |
| Lifecycle policies | The retention of data can also be controlled simply by the use of lifecycle policies. These enable customers to have the platform automatically manage the length of time that data objects are stored in the system. |
| Multi-level accounts | Users can create a multi-level account structure by using subaccounts to create, provision, and manage additional subaccounts. Each subaccount can be used to control who can access storage, create buckets, and upload data. |
Account administrators have several tools to authorize access to Lyve Cloud Object Storage users. Identity and access management (IAM) allows administrators to manage users and their access to the console. Access is managed with user-defined roles that offer varying levels of accessibility. IAM users can use multi-factor authentication (MFA) for additional verification during login.
Configuring Federated Login requires Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) protocol to provide a single sign-on authentication method through an organization’s IDP (identity provider).
Lyve Cloud Object Storage offers security features to protect data in flight and at rest. To ensure data is protected in flight, Lyve Cloud aligns with Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 protocol and leverages 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) encryption, establishing secure communications to the client. By default, all data is encrypted before it is stored.
To learn more, see the Lyve Cloud Data Security Whitepaper.
Lyve Cloud Object Storage data centers are located in multiple geographic locations, including Northern California, Virginia, Europe, and Singapore. Each location has dedicated operations staff to ensure services are available with a monthly uptime of 99.9%.
Data durability refers to long-term data protection against bit rot or other forms of corruption over long periods. Due to industry-leading architecture, Lyve Cloud Object Storage can achieve 11 9s of data durability making data loss statistically insignificant.