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Object Storage Service:Common scenarios

Last Updated:Nov 06, 2023

This topic describes the application scenarios of Object Storage Service (OSS).

Massive storage for image, audio, and video applications

OSS can be used to store large amounts of data, such as images, audio and video data, and logs. Various devices, websites, and mobile applications can directly write data to and read data from OSS. You can write data to OSS by uploading files or using streams.

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Dynamic and static content separation for websites and mobile applications

With a huge amount of bandwidth, you can concurrently download a large amount of data from OSS over the Internet. OSS provides the transfer acceleration feature to accelerate uploads and downloads across countries and continents and improve user experience. For more information, see Enable transfer acceleration. You can also use OSS together with Alibaba Cloud CDN to cache static data stored in OSS on CDN points of presence (POPs). Users can access the data cached on CDN POPs instead of the same data stored in OSS. This way, the concurrent and repeated download of an object within the same region can be accelerated.

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Data processing in the cloud

After you upload objects to OSS, you can use Intelligent Media Management (IMM) and Image Processing (IMG) to process the data in the cloud.

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