Imagine you have millions of photos, videos, and documents that need to be stored, retrieved, and managed efficiently.

As your data grows exponentially, traditional storage systems like file or block storage can become cumbersome and expensive to scale.

This is where object storage comes into play—a highly scalable, cost-effective, and resilient solution for managing large amounts of unstructured data.

In this article, I’ll walk you through the fundamentals of object storage, its architecture, key design principles, and use cases.

1. What is Object Storage?