This topic describes the feature updates and related documentation for each release of Object Storage Service (OSS). You can use this information to stay informed about new releases.
July 2026
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AI VibeFlow | OSS AI VibeFlow is a multimodal data production and transformation service provided by Object Storage Service (OSS). In AI VibeFlow, you can create data pipelines (DataPipeline) that automatically transform unstructured data such as text, images, and videos in OSS object buckets into vector data and write the data to the vector index tables of OSS vector buckets. | 2026-07-06 | This feature is currently available to whitelisted users. To use it, contact technical support to submit an application. |
June 2026
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OSS C++ SDK V2 | Use OSS C++ SDK V2 to integrate Object Storage Service (OSS) into your C++ applications. You can upload, download, and manage files. This SDK is ideal for high-performance scenarios, embedded systems, and desktop applications that require cloud file storage operations. | 2026-06-04 | All |
May 2026
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OSS Agent | OSS Agent is an agent service from Object Storage Service (OSS). It lets you use natural language to manage buckets, diagnose anomalies, perform health checks, and analyze costs. OSS Agent also provides semantic search and direct conversation capabilities for multimodal data, such as videos, images, and documents, in your buckets. | 2026-05-15 | All Note OSS Agent is currently in invitational preview. To enable this feature, contact Technical Support. | |
OSS Tables | OSS Tables is a structured data lake storage service provided by Object Storage Service (OSS). It is based on the Apache Iceberg open table format. OSS Tables provides a ready-to-use, low-cost, and high-performance structured data storage solution for AI training data management and online analytical processing (OLAP) scenarios. It features built-in automated data maintenance, including compression, snapshot management, and dangling file cleanup, to deliver a zero-O&M, serverless data lake experience. | 2026-05-08 | OSS Tables is currently in free invitational preview in the China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Ulanqab), Singapore, and Germany (Frankfurt) regions. The preview is open to enterprise customers who have completed identity verification. To apply for the preview, log on to your Alibaba Cloud account and go to the Table Bucket list page. |
March 2026
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Object-level retention policy (ObjectWorm) | OSS now supports object-level retention policies (ObjectWorm). You can set an independent retention policy for a single object to meet granular compliance storage requirements. After you enable this feature, you can specify a retention mode and expiration date for uploaded objects. During the retention period, the object cannot be deleted or overwritten. | 2026-03-31 | China (Hangzhou), China (Chengdu), China (Shenzhen), China (Guangzhou), China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Hohhot), China (Heyuan), China (Hong Kong), Germany (Frankfurt), Japan (Tokyo), South Korea (Seoul), Singapore, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Indonesia (Jakarta), Philippines (Manila), Thailand (Bangkok), SAU (Riyadh - Partner Region), UAE (Dubai) | |
Filter for data replication based on tags | When you configure a data replication rule, you can set a filter rule based on object tags. This lets you replicate only the objects with specified tags to the destination bucket. | 2026-03-24 | all regions | |
OSS Backint Agent for SAP HANA | Directly transfer SAP HANA backup data to Alibaba Cloud OSS through the SAP Backint interface. | 2026-03-12 | All | |
New version of OSS Connector for AI/ML (for inference) released | OSS Connector Lib V1.2.0 is released. This version adds features such as multi-model loading, cache capacity limits, and model broadcasting. It also supports Kubernetes deployment. | 2026-03-20 | All | |
New version of OSS Connector for AI/ML (for training) released | OssTorchConnector V1.2.3 is released. This version adds support for Python 3.13. OssCheckpoint now supports DCP and safetensors formats. A new OSS Region configuration is also added. | 2026-03-17 | All |
February 2026
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
AI content awareness | OSS uses multimodal AI models to automatically extract semantic descriptions and concise summaries for files stored in buckets and builds them into searchable indexes. This lets you directly search file content using natural language, enabling advanced search features like text-to-image and text-to-video search. This significantly improves the accuracy and efficiency of data retrieval and provides a solid foundation for building upper-layer applications such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). | 2026-02-10 | Singapore, US (Virginia) Note Submit a ticket to apply. | |
OSS Vectors scalability upgrade | The default limit for a single table in OSS Vectors is increased to 2 billion rows. The default upper limit for TopK in retrieval is increased to 100. | 2026-02-03 | China (Shenzhen), China (Beijing), China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Ulanqab), Singapore, China (Hong Kong), Indonesia (Jakarta), Germany (Frankfurt), US (Silicon Valley), US (Virginia) | |
OSS Vectors adds support for new regions | Adds support for the China (Hong Kong), Indonesia (Jakarta), Germany (Frankfurt), US (Silicon Valley), and US (Virginia) regions. | 2026-02-03 | China (Shenzhen), China (Beijing), China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Ulanqab), Singapore, China (Hong Kong), Indonesia (Jakarta), Germany (Frankfurt), US (Silicon Valley), US (Virginia) | |
OSS Vectors on Alibaba Cloud International website moves from invitational preview to public preview | OSS Vectors on the Alibaba Cloud International website has officially ended its invitational preview and is now in public preview. You can use it directly on the international website without an application. | 2026-02-03 | China (Shenzhen), China (Beijing), China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Ulanqab), Singapore, China (Hong Kong), Indonesia (Jakarta), Germany (Frankfurt), US (Silicon Valley), US (Virginia) | |
AI content awareness | OSS uses multimodal AI models to automatically extract semantic descriptions and concise summaries for files stored in buckets and builds them into searchable indexes. This lets you directly search file content using natural language, enabling advanced search features like text-to-image and text-to-video search. This significantly improves the accuracy and efficiency of data retrieval and provides a solid foundation for building upper-layer applications such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). | 2026-02-03 | China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Shenzhen), China (Chengdu) |
January 2026
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OSS Kotlin SDK V2 | OSS Kotlin SDK V2 is the second version of the OSS SDK for the Kotlin programming language. It supports Kotlin 2.1.0+ and covers Android and Desktop (JVM) platforms. You can quickly integrate it using Gradle dependencies or build it from source and publish to MavenLocal for convenient upload, download, and data management. | 2026-01-29 | All | |
OSS Vectors Embed CLI | The OSS Vectors Embed CLI command-line tool lets you easily call Alibaba Cloud Model Studio vector models. You can vectorize raw files in OSS or local files, write the vectorization results to an OSS vector bucket, and initiate multimodal semantic searches. | 2026-01-13 | All | Use the OSS Vectors Embed CLI tool to write and retrieve vector data |
December 2025
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
OSS MCP Server | OSS MCP Server is a server implementation based on the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It provides AI applications with the ability to operate on Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS). Developers can use it to integrate OSS management features into MCP-supported AI tools, such as Cursor and Cherry Studio, to perform cloud storage operations using natural language. | 2025-12-23 | All | |
CNAME domain name | A CNAME domain name is a system-generated, independent resolution endpoint used specifically for binding custom domain names. When you need to bind your own domain name, such as img.example.com, to a bucket, you point it to the system-assigned CNAME domain name instead of the generic default bucket domain name. The CNAME domain name is used only for DNS resolution of custom domain names and cannot be used for direct access requests. | 2025-12-22 | All | |
Preventing file overwriting | If you want to prevent objects in an OSS bucket from being accidentally or maliciously modified after the initial upload, you can set a rule to prevent overwrites for the bucket. You can precisely control which objects cannot be overwritten based on file path, type, or operator identity. | 2025-12-02 | All | |
Enable retention policy and versioning at the same time | Versioning ensures that when an object is overwritten or deleted, its old version is retained as a historical version instead of being physically deleted. A retention policy sets a protection period for all object versions in a bucket. During this period, no version can be deleted or modified. | 2025-12-02 | All |
October 2025
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OSS Vectors adds support for new regions | Adds support for the China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Ulanqab), and Singapore regions. | 2025-11-05 | China (Shenzhen), China (Beijing), China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Ulanqab), Singapore | |
Batch Operations | For large-scale scenarios such as tag management, permission adjustments, and data restoration, traditional methods require writing batch operation programs based on the OSS SDK and managing task execution status. Batch Operations provides a managed solution. A single job can process 10 billion objects, allowing you to manage tags, modify ACLs, and restore data without coding. | 2025-10-15 | China (Hangzhou), China (Ulanqab) |
September 2025
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OSS Vectors | OSS Vectors is a vector storage and retrieval feature provided by Object Storage Service (OSS). It uses a dedicated vector bucket type to store, query, and manage vector data. It is low-cost, large-scale, and easy to use. It provides vector storage and query capabilities for AI scenarios such as multimodal retrieval, knowledge bases, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and AI agents. | 2025-09-24 | China (Shenzhen), China (Beijing) | |
Resource pools support priority-based throttling | When multiple business systems share the same OSS resource pool, the priority-based throttling feature allows administrators to set 3 to 10 priority levels for different business objects, such as buckets, bucket groups, or requesters. You can configure a separate minimum bandwidth commitment for each level. When bandwidth is limited, core services, such as online transactions, are prioritized. Low-priority services, such as log backups, use the remaining resources. This ensures that important services are not affected by traffic bursts from other services and enables differentiated Quality of Service (QoS) management within the resource pool. | 2025-09-23 | China (Qingdao), China (Hangzhou), China (Hong Kong), US (Silicon Valley), US (Virginia), Japan (Tokyo), South Korea (Seoul), Singapore, Indonesia (Jakarta), Philippines (Manila), Thailand (Bangkok), Germany (Frankfurt), UK (London), UAE (Dubai) | |
Standard ZRS adds support for new dual-zone regions | OSS Standard ZRS uses a dual-zone data redundancy mechanism for regions with two zones. It stores redundant copies of your data across two zones in the same region. If one zone becomes unavailable, your data remains accessible. Standard ZRS with dual-zone deployment provides 99.9999999999% (twelve 9s) data persistence and 99.99% service availability. | 2025-09-11 | UK (London), Thailand (Bangkok), UAE (Dubai) | |
Standard ZRS adds support for new multi-zone regions | OSS Standard ZRS supports regions with multiple zones (AZs). It stores redundant copies of your data across multiple AZs in the same region. If one AZ becomes unavailable, your data remains accessible. Standard ZRS with multi-zone deployment provides 99.9999999999% (twelve 9s) data persistence and 99.995% service availability. | 2025-09-11 | Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) | |
Zone-redundant IA storage is now available in new multi-zone regions. | OSS IA ZRS supports regions with multiple zones (AZs). It stores redundant copies of your data across multiple AZs in the same region. If one AZ becomes unavailable, your data remains accessible. IA ZRS with multi-zone deployment provides 99.9999999999% (twelve 9s) data persistence and 99.50% service availability. | 2025-09-11 | Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) | |
Archive ZRS adds support for new multi-zone regions | OSS Archive ZRS supports regions with multiple zones (AZs). It stores redundant copies of your data across multiple AZs in the same region. If one AZ becomes unavailable, your data remains accessible. Archive ZRS with multi-zone deployment provides 99.9999999999% (twelve 9s) data persistence and 99.50% service availability. | 2025-09-11 | Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) |
August 2025
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Java SDK V2.0 | Java SDK V2 is a major rewrite of the Java SDK V1 codebase. This new version simplifies underlying operations such as authentication, automatic request retries, and error handling. Its interfaces allow users to access Alibaba Cloud OSS services without complex programming. Java SDK V2 provides flexible and user-friendly parameter settings and a rich set of advanced interfaces, such as paginators and asynchronous operations, to improve development efficiency and experience. | 2025-08-29 | All | |
OSS Accelerator becomes commercially available | OSS Accelerator is now commercially available. Fees are charged based on the provisioned capacity and usage duration of the accelerator you apply for. Zone-level deployment is also supported. | 2025-08-18 | China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Beijing), China (Ulanqab), China (Shenzhen), Singapore |
July 2025
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Total public and internal upload bandwidth in the Singapore region increased to 20 Gbps | The default total public and internal upload bandwidth for OSS in the Singapore region for a single Alibaba Cloud account has been increased from 5 Gbps to 20 Gbps. | 2025-07-04 | Singapore |
June 2025
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.NET SDK V2.0 | .NET SDK V2 is a major rewrite of the .NET SDK V1 codebase. This new version simplifies underlying operations such as authentication, automatic request retries, and error handling. Its interfaces allow users to access Alibaba Cloud OSS services without complex programming. .NET SDK V2 provides flexible and user-friendly parameter settings and a rich set of advanced interfaces, such as paginators, to improve development efficiency and experience. | 2025-06-06 | All |
April 2025
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Total public and internal download bandwidth in the Singapore region increased to 100 Gbps | The default total public and internal download bandwidth for OSS in the Singapore region for a single Alibaba Cloud account has been increased from 5 Gbps to 100 Gbps. | 2025-04-29 | Singapore | |
Monitoring for bucket groups in a resource pool | You can use Cloud Monitor to view the performance thresholds and actual performance of each bucket group in a resource pool, and configure threshold-based alerts. | 2025-04-27 | All | |
Resource pools support throttling for bucket groups | Within the same resource pool, you can add multiple buckets with the same business attributes to a bucket group and configure the bandwidth for the entire bucket group. This greatly reduces configuration complexity and allows for time-sharing of performance within the same business. | 2025-04-10 | All | |
New Standard ZRS storage plan added | Deducts storage fees for OSS files of the Standard ZRS storage class. | 2025-04-09 | Universal for the Chinese mainland, Universal for Hong Kong (China), Macao (China), Taiwan (China) and other regions outside the Chinese mainland | |
New Cold Archive LRS storage plan added | Deducts storage fees for OSS files of the Cold Archive LRS storage class. | 2025-04-09 | China (Hong Kong), Singapore | |
TLS cipher suite | A transport layer security (TLS) cipher suite defines a specific combination of encryption algorithms used to implement data encryption, identity verification, and integrity protection. After you specify a cipher suite, clients can only use the specified TLS version and cipher suite to send and receive data with OSS, meeting the security requirements of the communication link. | 2025-04-03 | UK (London) |
March 2025
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Standard ZRS supports dual-zone regions | OSS Standard ZRS uses a dual-zone data redundancy mechanism for regions with two zones. It stores redundant copies of your data across two zones in the same region. If one zone becomes unavailable, your data remains accessible. Standard ZRS with dual-zone deployment provides 99.99% service availability and 99.9999999999% (twelve 9s) data persistence. | 2025-03-31 | Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) | |
ossfs 2.0 | ossfs 2.0 is a refactored version of ossfs 1.0, designed for new types of compute-intensive application scenarios. It offers comprehensive performance upgrades but has some limitations on POSIX semantics. It is the main version for future evolution. This tool is especially suitable for new application scenarios such as AI model training and autonomous driving simulation. | 2025-03-25 | All | |
Harmony SDK | The Harmony SDK is a software development kit (SDK) designed for Huawei HarmonyOS developers to help them easily access Alibaba Cloud OSS services. | 2025-03-13 | All | |
Python SDK V2.0 | Python SDK V2 is a major rewrite of the Python SDK V1 codebase. This new version simplifies underlying operations such as authentication, automatic request retries, and error handling. Its interfaces allow users to access Alibaba Cloud OSS services without complex programming. Python SDK V2 provides flexible and user-friendly parameter settings and a rich set of advanced interfaces, such as paginators, a transfer manager, and file-like interfaces, to improve development efficiency and experience. | 2025-03-07 | All |
January 2025
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Resource pool QoS monitoring | After you enable resource pool QoS, you can use Cloud Monitor to view the performance thresholds and actual performance of each bucket and requester that accesses the resource pool. You can also configure threshold-based alerts. | 2025-01-16 | All | |
OSS Accelerator monitoring | After you enable OSS Accelerator, you can use the OSS Accelerator monitoring feature. By observing four monitoring metrics—"Used Bandwidth, Used QPS, Hit Rate, and Latency"—you can gain precise insights into the cache status to ensure efficient and smooth data transmission. | 2025-01-06 | All |
November 2024
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Resource pool QoS | After adding multiple buckets under your Alibaba Cloud account to the same resource pool, you can dynamically adjust the bandwidth of each bucket based on its purpose. This ensures that critical services and compute-intensive tasks receive priority resources during peak hours, avoiding bottlenecks caused by uneven resource allocation. | 2024-11-29 | All | |
Go SDK V2.0 | Go SDK V2 is a major rewrite of the Go SDK V1 codebase. This new version simplifies underlying operations such as authentication, automatic request retries, and error handling. Its interfaces allow users to access Alibaba Cloud OSS services without complex programming. Go SDK V2 provides flexible and user-friendly parameter settings and a rich set of advanced interfaces, such as paginators, a transfer manager, and file-like interfaces, to improve development efficiency and experience. | 2024-11-26 | All |
October 2024
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ossbrowser 2.0 | ossbrowser 2.0 is an upgraded version of the old ossbrowser. It features a completely redesigned user interface and interaction, with a focus on improving the user-friendliness and convenience of file management and transfer. New features include account logon, favorite buckets, and editing during file preview. With ossbrowser 2.0, you can manage your buckets more conveniently and efficiently. | 2024-10-30 | All |
September 2024
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Data Indexing - Vector Search | Data Indexing now supports vector search, adding search conditions based on semantic content, multimedia metadata, and custom metadata. By representing information from documents, images, videos, and audio files as semantic embeddings and using these embeddings for semantic similarity comparison and retrieval, it enables efficient retrieval based on file content and multimedia attributes. | 2024-09-25 | China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Shenzhen), China (Guangzhou), China (Chengdu), China (Hong Kong), Singapore, Indonesia (Jakarta), Germany (Frankfurt) | |
OSS Connector for AI/ML | OSS Connector for AI/ML is a Python library for efficiently accessing and storing OSS data in PyTorch training jobs. It supports building map-style datasets for random access and stream-style datasets for sequential access based on data in OSS. It also supports creating OssCheckpoint objects, which can directly load checkpoints from OSS during model training and save checkpoints to OSS after periodic model training is complete. This simplifies the workflow. | 2024-09-02 | All |
July 2024
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ossutil 2.0 | Compared to version 1.0, ossutil 2.0 has made comprehensive and significant optimizations and improvements in the structure and supported types of configuration files, the uniformity of commands across different operating systems, the functionality and rules of various commands, the matching and support range of options, many parameters of the default configuration, and the default state of resumable uploads. | 2024-07-31 | All |
June 2024
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Access OSS resources over a private network through an endpoint | PrivateLink establishes a secure and stable private connection between a virtual private cloud (VPC) and Alibaba Cloud services. It simplifies the network architecture and allows private access to services, avoiding potential security risks from accessing services over the public network. | 2024-06-13 | China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Beijing), China (Ulanqab), China (Shenzhen), China (Hong Kong), Singapore, Indonesia (Jakarta) |
May 2024
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Bandwidth limit adjustment | The total public and internal download bandwidth in the China (Hangzhou) region is increased to 100 Gbps. | 2024-05-10 | China (Hangzhou) |
April 2024
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Block Public Access | OSS supports public access through bucket policies and ACLs. Public access means that OSS resources can be accessed without specific permissions or identity verification. Public access can easily lead to data breaches and the risk of generating a large amount of outbound traffic from malicious access. To avoid the risks associated with public access, OSS supports one-click enabling of Block Public Access at the global OSS level, for a single bucket, a single access point, and a single object FC access point. After Block Public Access is enabled, existing public access permissions are ignored, and new public access permissions cannot be created. This closes public access channels to data and ensures data security. | 2024-04-11 | All |
December 2023
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OSS activation authentication | RAM users and RAM roles must be granted the | 2023-12-25 | All | |
Authentication for purchasing OSS resource plans | RAM users and RAM roles must be granted the | 2023-12-20 | All |
October 2023
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Bandwidth increase in China (Shanghai) and China (Shenzhen) regions | The total public and internal download bandwidth in the China (Shanghai) and China (Shenzhen) regions is increased from 10 Gbps to 100 Gbps. | 2023-10-31 | China (Shanghai), China (Shenzhen) | |
Object FC access point | If you want OSS to automatically trigger Function Compute when you send a GetObject request and return the transformed data to your application, you need to send the request through an object FC access point. Using an object FC access point, you can seamlessly integrate the ability to modify or filter file content while maintaining object storage semantics and without modifying the client. | 2023-10-31 | China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hohhot), China (Shenzhen), China (Chengdu), China (Hong Kong), US (Silicon Valley), US (Virginia), Japan (Tokyo), South Korea (Seoul), Singapore, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Indonesia (Jakarta), Germany (Frankfurt), UK (London) | |
Cross-account replication | Cross-account replication refers to the automatic and asynchronous (near-real-time) replication of operations such as creating, updating, and deleting objects from a source bucket in one account and region to a destination bucket in another account in the same or a different region. | 2023-10-17 | All |
September 2023
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Set the TLS version | Communication between client applications and OSS is encrypted using transport layer security (TLS). TLS is a standard encryption protocol that ensures privacy and data integrity between clients and servers communicating over the Internet. You can set the TLS version on the OSS server. After you set the TLS version, clients can only use the corresponding TLS version to send and receive requests with OSS, meeting the security requirements of the communication link. | 2023-09-19 | All |
June 2023
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Real-time access of Archive objects | Object Storage Service (OSS) supports enabling real-time access of Archive objects. You can directly access files of the Archive storage class without first restoring them. Compared to reading Archive files after restoration, real-time access has a shorter data retrieval time and higher cost. Real-time access is suitable for scenarios that require real-time reading of extremely infrequently accessed data. | 2023-06-30 | All | |
Storage redundancy type conversion | Object Storage Service (OSS) supports converting the storage redundancy type of a bucket from locally redundant storage to zone-redundant storage, providing resistance to zone-level failures. | 2023-06-28 | China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Ulanqab), China (Shenzhen), China (Hong Kong), Japan (Tokyo), Singapore, Indonesia (Jakarta), and Germany (Frankfurt). |
May 2023
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Deep Cold Archive | Provides a highly durable object storage service at a lower cost than Cold Archive. It has a minimum billable size (64 KB) and a minimum storage duration (180 days). Data must be restored before access. The restoration time depends on the data size and the chosen restoration mode. Data retrieval fees and retrieval request fees are incurred. It is suitable for extremely cold data that needs to be stored for a very long time, such as long-term accumulation and retention of raw data in big data and artificial intelligence fields, long-term retention of media data, regulatory and compliance archiving, and tape replacement business scenarios. Deep Cold Archive only supports the locally redundant data redundancy storage method. | 2023-05-07 | China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Ulanqab), China (Shenzhen), Singapore |
March 2023
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Bandwidth increase in China (Beijing) region | The total public and internal download bandwidth in the China (Beijing) region is increased from 10 Gbps to 100 Gbps. | 2023-03-12 | China (Beijing) |
February 2023
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Signature tool | The OSS console provides the following signature tools:
| 2023-02-03 | All |
December 2022
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Resource groups | Resource groups are a resource-based permission management method. You can group buckets based on different business needs and set different access permissions for different resource groups to achieve permission management within the scope of the resource group. | 2022-12-16 | China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hohhot), China (Ulanqab), China (Shenzhen), China (Heyuan), China (Guangzhou), China (Chengdu), China (Hong Kong), US (Silicon Valley), US (Virginia), Japan (Tokyo), Singapore, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Indonesia (Jakarta), Germany (Frankfurt), UK (London), UAE (Dubai) | |
Replication time control (RTC) | OSS replication time control (RTC) can meet your compliance requirements or business needs for cross-region data replication. After RTC is enabled, OSS replicates most of the objects you upload to OSS within seconds and 99.99% of the objects within 10 minutes. In addition, the RTC feature provides near-real-time monitoring of data replication, allowing you to easily view various metrics of the replication task. | 2022-12-01 |
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October 2022
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Policy adjustment for response headers when accessing all types of files in OSS | Starting from October 9, 2022, for buckets created by users who activated OSS services after this date, the response header will automatically include | 2022-10-09 | All | How do I configure the preview behavior when accessing OSS files? |
August 2022
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Tiered storage for OSS-HDFS | Some data stored in OSS-HDFS is not accessed frequently but must be retained for compliance or archival purposes. To address this, OSS-HDFS supports tiered storage of hot and cold data. Frequently accessed data is stored as Standard, while less frequently accessed data is stored as Archive, which reduces total storage costs. | 2022-08-16 | China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Shenzhen), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), and Singapore |
March 2022
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Data Indexing - Scalar Search | Scalar search is an object metadata indexing capability provided by OSS. You can use the metadata of objects to customize indexing conditions to quickly obtain a list of objects, helping you better manage and understand your data structure for subsequent querying, statistics, and management of objects. | 2022-03-21 | China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Shenzhen), China (Guangzhou), China (Chengdu), China (Ulanqab), China (Hong Kong), Singapore, Indonesia (Jakarta), Germany (Frankfurt), US (Virginia), US (Silicon Valley), UK (London) |
January 2022
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OSS-HDFS service | The OSS-HDFS service is compatible with HDFS interfaces and supports directory-level operations, providing better adaptation to the open source ecosystem. | 2022-01-27 | China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Ulanqab), China (Shenzhen), China (Guangzhou), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hong Kong), Japan (Tokyo), Singapore, Germany (Frankfurt), US (Silicon Valley), US (Virginia), Indonesia (Jakarta), Thailand (Bangkok) |
October 2021
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Lifecycle rule based on last access time | You can use a lifecycle rule based on the Last Access Time policy to automatically monitor data access patterns and identify cold data. You can then convert the identified cold data to a different storage class to achieve tiered storage of hot and cold data, ultimately reducing storage costs. | 2021-10-19 | All |
September 2021
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Same-region replication | Same-region replication (SRR) refers to the automatic and asynchronous (near-real-time) replication of operations such as creating, updating, and deleting objects from a source bucket to a destination bucket in the same region. | 2021-09-06 | All |
August 2021
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
OSS DDoS protection supports protecting custom domain names | If you want to access a bucket through a custom domain name when the bucket is under attack, add the custom domain name to be protected in the OSS DDoS protection console. Each bucket can protect up to five custom domain names. | 2021-08-13 | China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Shenzhen), China (Hong Kong) | |
Cold Archive | A new Cold Archive storage class is added, suitable for extremely cold data that needs to be stored for a very long time. The minimum billable size is 64 KB, the minimum storage period is 180 days, and the storage cost is lower than Archive Storage. | 2021-08-01 | The single-zone redundancy storage mechanism is implemented for Cold Archive objects in the following regions: China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hohhot), China (Ulanqab), China (Shenzhen), China (Heyuan), China (Guangzhou), China (Chengdu), China (Hong Kong), US (Silicon Valley), US (Virginia), Japan (Tokyo), Singapore, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Indonesia (Jakarta), Philippines (Manila), Germany (Frankfurt), UK (London), and UAE (Dubai). |
July 2021
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Support for adding tags to different object versions | After versioning is enabled for a bucket, you can add tags to different versions of objects in the bucket. | 2021-07-15 | All |
April 2021
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Bucket Policy | Supports configuring bucket policies through a graphical interface and policy syntax. | 2021-04-16 | All | Grant users access to specified resources through a bucket policy |
Data synchronization between different buckets in multiple regions | Cross-region replication lets you replicate objects from one region to several other specified regions in near-real-time. This not only achieves multi-region disaster recovery but also improves access real-time performance in each region. | 2021-04-23 | All |
January 2021
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Batch export URL list | You can batch export multiple file URLs to share with third parties for download or preview. | 2021-01-18 | All | |
OSS DDoS protection | You can use OSS DDoS protection to protect your buckets, ensuring normal access services even when under volumetric attacks. | 2021-01-07 | China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Shenzhen), China (Hong Kong) |
December 2020
Feature name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Mirroring-based back-to-origin adds support for private buckets as origin | When the origin object is a private object in another bucket under the same account, you can use the private bucket as origin feature to correctly fetch the object. | 2020-12-17 | All | |
ZIP package decompression adds feature to retain compressed file name as path directory | You can decompress a ZIP file into a subdirectory within the destination directory to distinguish different compressed files. | 2020-12-01 | China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hohhot), China (Shenzhen), China (Chengdu), China (Hong Kong), Singapore, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Indonesia (Jakarta), Japan (Tokyo), Germany (Frankfurt), UK (London), US (Virginia), US (Silicon Valley) |
November 2020
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Service availability change for Standard storage class | The service availability for the Standard storage class is changed as follows:
| 2020-11-12 | All | |
Cross-region replication supports replicating encrypted objects | Cross-region replication supports replicating objects encrypted using KMS-managed keys (SSE-KMS) and OSS-managed keys (SSE-OSS). | 2020-11-01 | All |
September 2020
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Console adds task list for deleting folders | When deleting a folder, you can view the task progress in the task list and can interrupt the ongoing deletion task at any time. | 2020-09-28 | All |
August 2020
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Cross-region replication supports object tags | When versioning is enabled for both the source and destination buckets, and the 'Data Synchronization Policy' is set to 'Sync on Add/Modify', OSS supports synchronizing objects with specified tags to the destination bucket. | 2020-08-28 | Source region is China (Hangzhou), and the destination region is any region other than China (Hangzhou). | |
Cross-region replication supports transfer acceleration | When performing cross-region replication, you can use the transfer acceleration feature to speed up file transfers. | 2020-08-28 | When performing cross-region replication between the Chinese mainland and regions outside the Chinese mainland. |
July 2020
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Transfer acceleration adds an accelerated domain name for regions outside the Chinese mainland | The transfer acceleration feature adds an accelerated domain name for regions outside the Chinese mainland: | 2020-07-28 | All regions except the Chinese mainland | Bind a custom domain name to an OSS transfer acceleration domain name |
OSS console adds features to restore and batch delete historical versions | After versioning is enabled, the OSS console supports restoring specified historical versions of objects and batch deleting historical versions. | 2020-07-24 | All | |
Mirroring-based back-to-origin adds pass-through of forward slash (/) to origin | When the requested origin file name starts with a forward slash (/), the forward slash is passed through to the origin. | 2020-07-20 | US (Silicon Valley), US (Virginia), China (Hangzhou) |
June 2020
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Auto CDN cache update supports refreshing for specified operations | Auto CDN cache update can specify the operations that trigger a cache refresh. When an object is updated due to a specified operation, such as PutObject or DeleteObject, the CDN cache is automatically refreshed. | 2020-06-05 | All |
May 2020
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Mirroring-based back-to-origin adds MD5 validation and prefix replacement operations |
| 2020-05-22 | All | |
OSS console supports drag-and-drop upload with folder retention | When uploading via drag-and-drop in the OSS console, all subfolders of the folder are retained. | 2020-05-22 | All |
April 2020
Feature name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Bucket inventory | You can use the inventory feature of Object Storage Service (OSS) to list specified objects in a bucket to obtain attribute information such as the number, size, storage class, and encryption status of the objects. Compared to the ListObject interface, it is recommended to prioritize using the inventory feature in scenarios with a massive number of objects. | 2020-04-30 | All | |
Object Storage Service (OSS) service availability SLA improvement | The SLA for OSS Standard LRS is improved from 99.9% to 99.99%, and the SLA for Standard ZRS is improved from 99.95% to 99.995%. | 2020-04-30 | All | |
Cold Archive | A new Cold Archive storage class is added, suitable for extremely cold data that needs to be stored for a very long time. The minimum billable size is 64 KB, the minimum storage period is 180 days, and the storage cost is lower than Archive Storage. | 2020-04-22 (invitational preview) | China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hohhot), China (Ulanqab), China (Shenzhen), China (Heyuan), China (Guangzhou), China (Chengdu), China (Hong Kong), US (Silicon Valley), US (Virginia), Japan (Tokyo), Singapore, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Indonesia (Jakarta), Philippines (Manila), Germany (Frankfurt), UK (London), UAE (Dubai) |
March 2020
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Bucket Policy supports authorizing temporary users | Bucket Policy supports granting access permissions to temporary users. | 2020-03-13 | All | Grant users access to specified resources through a bucket policy |
December 2019
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Bucket creation limit increased to 100 | The total number of buckets that can be created by the same Alibaba Cloud account in the same region is increased to 100. | 2019-12-13 | All |
November 2019
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Versioning | After the versioning feature is enabled for a bucket, overwrite and delete operations on data will be saved as historical versions. If you accidentally overwrite or delete an object, you can restore the object stored in the bucket to any historical version at any time. | 2019-11-15 | All |
September 2019
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Image preview feature change | For buckets created after September 23, 2019, when accessing image files from a browser using an OSS domain name, they will be downloaded as attachments. If you want to preview images directly, you need to use a custom domain name to access OSS. Buckets created before 00:00 on September 23, 2019, are not affected. | 2019-09-23 | All | |
Transfer acceleration | OSS uses globally distributed data centers to route user access to your buckets from around the world to the nearest access point through intelligent routing. It uses optimized networks and protocols to access the data center where your bucket is located. The transfer acceleration feature allows your customers to access your OSS more quickly, improving customer experience. | 2019-09-10 | All | |
Zone-redundant storage | OSS uses a data redundancy mechanism within multiple zones (AZs), storing redundant copies of user data across multiple AZs in the same region. When one AZ becomes unavailable, data access is still guaranteed.OSS zone-redundant storage provides 99.9999999999% (twelve 9s) data design reliability and 99.995% service availability. | 2019-09-09 (commercially available) | China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Ulanqab), China (Shenzhen), China (Hong Kong), Japan (Tokyo), Singapore, Indonesia (Jakarta), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Germany (Frankfurt) |
August 2019
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Bucket tagging | You can use the bucket tagging feature to classify and manage buckets, such as listing buckets with specified tags and setting access permissions for buckets with specified tags. | 2019-08-29 | All | |
Object tagging | OSS supports using object tagging to classify stored objects. You can set lifecycle rules, access permissions, and more for objects with the same tag. | 2019-08-29 | All | |
Single-connection bandwidth throttling | OSS supports throttling when uploading, downloading, and copying files to ensure the network bandwidth of your other applications. | 2019-08-17 | All |
June 2019
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Server-side encryption | OSS supports server-side encryption for uploaded data. When you upload data, OSS encrypts the received user data and then persists the encrypted data. When you download data, OSS automatically decrypts the saved encrypted data and returns the original data to the user, and declares in the returned HTTP request header that the data has been encrypted on the server side. | 2019-06-18 | All |
January 2019
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Bucket Policy | A bucket policy is a resource-based authorization policy. Bucket policies support graphical configuration directly in the console, and the bucket owner can directly grant access. | 2019-01-21 | All | Grant users access to specified resources through a bucket policy |
December 2018
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Real-time log query | The real-time log query feature combines OSS with Simple Log Service, allowing you to directly query OSS access logs in the OSS console. This helps you complete tasks such as operation audits, access statistics, anomalous activity backtracking, and problem locating for OSS access. | 2018-12-26 | All |
November 2018
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Specify or modify object storage class | When uploading an object, you can specify its storage class as Standard, Infrequent Access, or Archive as needed, and it takes effect in real time. You can convert the storage class of an object between Standard, Infrequent Access, and Archive using the CopyObject operation. The conversion time is improved from day-level to second-level. | 2018-11-10 | All | |
Terraform | OSS releases a Terraform Module to manage infrastructure resources with versioning. You can create buckets, manage objects, and more through code. | 2018-11-07 | All |
October 2018
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KMS-based server-side encryption | Use the KMS encryption method for OSS server-side encryption to achieve object-level encryption. | 2018-10-20 | All |
September 2018
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
OSS Select | OSS Select lets you use simple SQL statements to select the data you need from a single file in OSS, thereby reducing the amount of data transferred from OSS and improving the efficiency of data retrieval. | 2018-09-28 | All | |
Retention policy | OSS supports setting bucket-level retention policies, allowing you to save and use data in a non-deletable, non-tamperable manner. | 2018-09-28 | All | |
Zone-redundant storage | OSS uses a data redundancy mechanism within multiple zones (AZs), storing redundant copies of user data across multiple AZs in the same region. When one AZ becomes unavailable, data access is still guaranteed.OSS zone-redundant storage provides 99.9999999999% (twelve 9s) data design reliability and 99.995% service design availability. | 2018-09-28 (public preview) | China (Shenzhen), China (Beijing), China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), Singapore | |
Pay-by-requester mode | The pay-by-requester mode means that the requester pays the traffic and request fees generated when reading data from a bucket, while the bucket owner only pays the storage fees. | 2018-09-27 | All |
August 2018
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Use KMS-managed keys for encryption and decryption (SSE-KMS) | OSS server-side KMS encryption supports specifying a CMK ID to implement the BYOK feature. | 2018-08-14 | All |
June 2018
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Python SDK supports client-side encryption | Use the client-side encryption SDK to encrypt data locally and upload the encrypted data to OSS. In this scenario, you need to manage the encryption process and the encryption keys. | 2018-06-05 | All |
May 2018
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Deep integration of OSS and Data Lake Analytics | You can directly perform serverless interactive query and analysis on data in OSS from the Data Lake Analytics management console. | 2018-05-31 | All |
March 2018
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
OSS Browser.js SDK and Node.js SDK support resumable upload | Resumable upload divides the file to be uploaded into several parts and uploads them separately. After all parts are uploaded, they are combined into a complete file to complete the entire file upload. | 2018-03-07 | All | |
Certificate hosting | You can host a custom domain name certificate on OSS and use HTTPS to access this custom domain name. | 2018-03-05 | All |
January 2018
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OSS iOS SDK supports SWIFT calls | Supports customers who use the SWIFT framework to develop mobile applications to call the OSS iOS SDK. | 2018-01-18 | All |
December 2017
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iOS SDK 2.8 and Android SDK 2.5 support CRC-64 data validation | After CRC-64 validation is enabled, it checks whether the CRC-64 calculated from the actually received data is equal to the CRC-64 of the original data when uploading and downloading files, thereby ensuring the integrity of the transmitted data. | 2017-12-21 | All |
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October 2017
Feature name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Data migration tool ossimport | ossimport is a tool provided by Alibaba Cloud OSS for migrating data to OSS buckets. | 2017-10-23 | All |
September 2017
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Cross-region replication | Cross-region replication is the automatic, asynchronous replication of files between different OSS regions, synchronizing changes (create, overwrite, delete operations) in the source bucket to the destination bucket. | 2017-09-15 | The Chinese mainland, US East, US West |
July 2017
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Archive Storage unit price reduction | The unit price of Archive Storage is reduced by 45%, and the minimum storage period is adjusted to 60 days. | 2017-07-21 | All | |
New console officially launched |
| 2017-07-01 | All |
April 2017
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Command line interface ossutil | ossutil is a command-line tool for managing OSS data. It provides convenient, simple, and rich bucket and object management commands, and supports Windows, Linux, and Mac platforms. | 2017-04-26 | All | |
Bucket creation limit increased to 30 | The total number of buckets that can be created by the same Alibaba Cloud account in the same region cannot exceed 30. | 2017-04-24 | All |
December 2016
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
iOS SDK 2.6.0 | iOS SDK 2.6.0 fully supports the HTTPS request access specification of the Apple App Store. | 2016-12-16 | All |
March 2016
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Manage fragments | Set lifecycle management rules to periodically clean up unnecessary fragments. | 2016-03-10 | All |
January 2016
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Back-to-origin settings | Through back-to-origin settings, requests to get data can be read from the origin in multiple ways, meeting your needs for data hot migration, specific request redirection, and more. | 2016-01-14 | All |
November 2015
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Ruby SDK | Ruby SDK is officially launched. | 2015-11-26 | All | |
Image processing | The image processing feature is enabled by default for buckets. | 2015-11-10 | All |
July 2015
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Append upload | Use the AppendObject method in the OSS API to directly append content to the end of an uploaded Appendable Object file. | 2015-07-18 | All | |
File upload supports callback to application server | OSS lets you build a mobile application data direct transfer service based on OSS and set up upload callbacks. | 2015-07-08 | All |
April 2015
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OSS integrates with RAM service | OSS integrates with RAM (Resource Access Management), supporting main and sub-account authorization along with temporary authorization methods. | 2015-04-26 | All |
October 2014
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Lifecycle | You can set lifecycle rules through the OSS PutBucketLifecycle interface to automatically delete expired objects and fragments, thereby saving storage costs. | 2014-10-20 | All |
March 2014
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Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) | Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a standard cross-domain solution provided by HTML5. OSS supports the CORS standard to implement cross-domain access. | 2014-03-15 | All |
February 2014
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Form upload | Form upload refers to using the PostObject request in the OSS API to complete the upload of an object. The uploaded object cannot exceed 5 GB. | 2014-02-12 | All |
November 2012
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
Server-side encryption | OSS supports server-side encryption for uploaded data. When you upload data, OSS encrypts the received user data and then persists the encrypted data. When you download data, OSS automatically decrypts the saved encrypted data and returns the original data to the user, and declares in the returned HTTP request header that the data has been encrypted on the server side. | 2012-11-04 | China (Hangzhou), China (Shanghai), China (Qingdao), China (Beijing), China (Zhangjiakou), China (Hohhot), China (Ulanqab), China (Shenzhen), China (Heyuan), China (Guangzhou), China (Chengdu), China (Hong Kong), US (Silicon Valley), US (Virginia), Japan (Tokyo), South Korea (Seoul), Singapore, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Indonesia (Jakarta), Philippines (Manila), Thailand (Bangkok), Germany (Frankfurt), UK (London), UAE (Dubai) |
September 2012
Feature Name | Overview | Release date | Supported regions | References |
CNAME | When you want to access these files through a custom domain name, you need to bind the custom domain name to the bucket where the files are located and add a CNAME record pointing to the bucket's public endpoint. | 2012-09-04 | All |
August 2012
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Log storage | Many access logs are generated during the process of accessing OSS. The log storage feature can generate an object from OSS access logs on an hourly basis, following a fixed naming convention, and write it to a bucket you specify. | 2012-08-09 | All |
June 2012
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Static website hosting | You can configure your bucket in static website hosting mode through the OSS API's PutBucketWebsite interface and access the static website through the bucket domain name. | 2012-06-20 | All |
March 2012
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Multipart upload | The multipart upload and resumable upload features provided by OSS can divide the file to be uploaded into multiple data blocks (also known as Parts in OSS) for separate upload. After all parts are uploaded, the OSS interface is called to combine these parts into a single object to achieve the effect of resumable upload. | 2012-03-29 | All |
December 2011
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Copy files | Copying files refers to copying some objects from one bucket to another without changing the file content. | 2011-12-16 | All | |
Hotlink protection | Hotlink protection refers to calling the OSS API's PutBucketReferer interface to set the Referer, which is used to prevent others from stealing OSS data. | 2011-12-16 | All | |
HTTP header | You can customize HTTP request policies by setting file HTTP headers, such as cache policies, forced file download policies, and more. | 2011-12-16 | All |
October 2011
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Object Storage Service (OSS) officially launched | Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) is officially commercially available. | 2011-10-22 | All |