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 aboveNote: 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 serviceNote: 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.