One of the things that is close to our hearts at SMEStorage is interoperability and, wherever possible, enabling open solutions. As outlined in our previous post, we recently added support for OpenStack Swift object storage. Of course there are other Object Storage frameworks, such as Amazon S3, but this is closed source, unlike Swift. There are however open source implementations of the Amazon S3 API’s including Walrus from Eucalyptus. There are also many tools, solutions, exiting code and frameworks that use S3 compatible API’s, and no doubt there will be occassions when it would be useful to enable users to connect to SWift using Amazon S3 API’s.
As SMEStorage has a compatible S3 API abstraction it turns out that is very easy. Let’s demonstrate how easy below:
After launching the free version of CloudBerry explorer Choose File-Walrus Accounts, and then choose to add an account.
The endpoint for the s3 compatible interface with SMEStorage is s3.storagemadeeasy.com. The username is the SMEStorage Account username, and the secret key can be found for each user on the “My DashBoard” page under a section called “Tech Info“.
Once we have entered the details we can test the connection:
and finally we can connect over the S3 API to work with our OpenStack Swift files:
As you can see this was easy and takes less than a couple of minutes to access and work with OpenStack Swift files using S3. We expect it to be very useful for ISP’s and SMB’s who want to deploy their own private cloud solution using OpenStack and enables interoperability and prevents lock-in.
Update: Note that in the Swift Diablo release that OpenStack also supports the ability to turn on Amazon S3 API’s.
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