Supported cloud providers

This topic describes the cloud providers that the IBM Spectrum Scale supports.

The Cloud services use the following cloud providers:
  • IBM Cloud® Object Storage (version 3.7.3.2, 3.8.2.19, 3.9, and 3.13.4.40)
  • IBM Cloud Object Storage on IBM® SoftLayer® and IBM Bluemix®.
  • OpenStack Swift with Swift version 2.13 and below
  • Amazon Web Services S3
  • Swift3 on OpenStack Swift version 2.13, 1.1 and above
    Note: OpenStack Swift is supported only with Keystone version 2 only. You need to install Apache libcloud 1.3.0 for mmcloudmanifest to function. Run pip install apache-libcloud==1.3.0 to install libcloud version 1.3.0.
  • Microsoft Azure object storage service
    Note: Cloud services move data to a cool tier as a block 'blob' only. Moving data to other tiers and other blob types is not supported.