Torch Object Storage
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Data processing | TOS can now process video files, including converting formats and codecs, and generate output videos based on specified templates. tip This feature is currently in closed beta. Please contact your account manager for access. | 2026-09-02 | All regions | |
DevMind | Added DevMind, which integrates usage statistics, log analysis, Storage Lens, and Insight Assistant. These modules help you analyze bucket data from multiple angles to evaluate usage, troubleshoot issues, and govern storage. | 2026-09-01 | All regions | |
Converged access points | Converged access points now support unified configuration of resource scope, access network, access domain, and access protocol. tip This feature is currently in closed beta. Please contact your account manager for access. | 2026-08-31 | All regions |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Converged access points | Added converged access points, which provide scalable access capabilities for requests from virtual private clouds (VPCs). This allows for direct access to TOS via IP addresses within your tenant VPC. | 2026-08-06 | All regions | |
Fetching custom metadata | Mirroring and redirection rules now support configuring custom metadata when fetching objects. | 2026-08-04 | All regions |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
ve-tos-cli | Added a command-line tool for TOS. ve-tos-cli supports the entire TOS workflow, including file transfer, bucket configuration, advanced feature invocation, and control plane operations. It provides low-level APIs, bucket configuration commands, advanced feature commands, and control plane commands to meet varying requirements. | 2026-07-06 | All regions |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
ObjectSet dedicated access points | You can now directly access data in an ObjectSet through an access point domain name. | 2026-06-22 | All regions | |
SenseFlow | Added TOS SenseFlow, a multi-model workspace. tip This feature is currently in closed beta and is only available in China (Beijing). Please contact your account manager for access. | 2026-06-22 | All regions | |
TOS Agent | Added TOS Agent, an intelligent service that offers natural language interactions. tip This feature is currently in closed beta. Please contact your account manager for access. | 2026-06-22 | All regions | |
Object hosting | TOS now allows objects to be hosted by other services. | 2026-06-12 | All regions |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Bucket quota |
| 2026-05-26 | All regions | |
GetBucketStat | Added the GetBucketStat API, which retrieves a bucket's storage size and object details. | 2026-05-26 | All regions | |
Multiple video snapshots |
| 2026-05-26 | All regions | |
Bucket inventory | Added the AccessTime parameter. | 2026-05-26 | All regions | |
Semantic video retrieval template | Added a semantic video retrieval template. | 2026-05-26 | All regions | |
ObjectSet | TOS now supports ObjectSet. | 2026-05-26 | All regions | |
Vector bucket |
| 2026-05-26 | All regions | |
Browser cache expiration | You can now set an expiration time for your browser cache. After this time has passed, your browser will refresh the cache. | 2026-05-26 | All regions |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
TOS accelerator | Added a read/write cache mode. tip This feature is currently in closed beta. Please contact your account manager for access. | 2026-04-23 | China (Beijing), China (Shanghai), China (Guangzhou), and Asia Pacific (Johor) | |
FSX | Added a POSIX-compatible mode. | 2026-04-21 | All regions | |
QoS policy | Added a priority-based throttling approach with multiple priority levels and guaranteed quotas to improve overall resource utilization. | 2026-04-15 | All regions | |
Hierarchical namespace | HNS buckets now support back-to-origin rules. | 2026-04-15 | All regions | |
Bucket inventory | Added the ablity to filter by typical conditions. | 2026-04-15 | All regions | |
Image processing | Added the ability to draw points and lines, as well as create mosaics on images. | 2026-04-15 | All regions | |
Data subscription | You can now securely and automatically synchronize AI-generated content (AIGC) from Volcano Ark (VeArk) to your buckets in near-real time. | 2026-04-15 | China (Beijing) | |
TOS Vectors | Added the project and tag parameters when creating a vector bucket. tip This feature is currently in closed beta. Please contact your account manager for access. | 2026-04-15 | China (Beijing) | |
Audio transcoding | Added the Java SDK for audio transcoding, which provides quick access to audio transcoding capabilities via APIs. | 2026-04-03 | All regions | |
Video transcoding | Added the Java SDK for video transcoding, which provides quick access to video transcoding capabilities via APIs. | 2026-04-03 | All regions | |
Workflow | Added the Java SDK for workflow to help orchestrate and manage media processing tasks. | 2026-04-03 | All regions | |
FSX | Version 1.3.2.790 is now available and provides POSIX compatibility. | 2026-04-03 | All regions |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
tosfsspec | Added tosfsspec, which is a Python library that adheres to the pythonic file systems specification (fsspec). It enables developers to read from and write to TOS as conveniently and efficiently as they would with a local file system. | 2026-03-19 | All regions |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
QoS policy | Added several fetch parameters. | 2026-02-09 | All regions | |
Hierarchical namespace |
| 2026-02-09 | All regions | |
Info | Added a field that indicates the clockwise rotation angle of a video file. | 2026-02-09 | All regions | Info |
File decompression | Added the PointCloudCompress API for compressing point cloud data files to save costs. tip This API is currently in closed beta. Please contact your account manager for access. | 2026-02-09 | All regions | |
Image processing | Added the ImageUnderstanding API for analyzing image content. tip This API is currently in closed beta. Please contact your account manager for access. | 2026-02-09 | All regions | |
Media processing |
tip This API is currently in closed beta. Please contact your account manager for access. | 2026-02-09 | All regions | |
TOS Vectors | Added console operations for creating, viewing, and deleting vector buckets and vector indexes. tip This feature is currently in a free closed beta and is only available in China (Beijing). Contact your account manager to request a trial. | 2026-02-09 | China (Beijing) |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
TOS PyTorch Connector | Designed for AI training workloads, TOS PyTorch Connector delivers high-performance data access to TOS data. | 2026-01-30 | All regions | |
TOS Browser |
| 2026-01-26 | All regions | |
TOS accelerator | TOS accelerators are generally available. | 2026-01-06 | China (Beijing), China (Shanghai), China (Guangzhou), and Asia Pacific (Johor) |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
TOS Vectors | Added TOS Vectors, a new storage solution designed for storing, querying, and managing vectors. tip This feature is currently in a free closed beta and is only available in China (Beijing). Contact your account manager to request a trial. | 2025-12-31 | China (Beijing) | |
Lifecycle | Added the Not paramter. | 2025-12-29 | All regions | |
Bucket inventory | Bucket inventory now supports exporting one-off inventory reports and executing inventory rules immediately. | 2025-12-29 | All regions | |
Audio and video transcoding |
| 2025-12-29 | All regions | |
QoS policy | The QoS policy conditions now support access points and projects. | 2025-12-29 | All regions | |
Rust SDK | Added the Rust SDK. | 2025-12-23 | All regions | |
Logging | Added fields such as StorageTier, MRAPAlias, and Payer to help you analyze and track requests from multi-region access points and requests where the requester pays. | 2025-12-17 | All regions | |
FSX | Version 1.3.0.370 is now available and supports Rocky Linux operating systems ranging from version 9.1 to 9.5. | 2025-12-04 | All regions | |
tosutil | Added the -bfs parameter to the cp command for downloading or copying objects. This parameter allows you to use the hierarchical listing method to download or copy objects in batches and set the concurrency level for those listings. | 2025-12-02 | All regions |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Hierarchical namespace |
| 2025-11-27 | All regions | |
Data processing | Added the following billable items: video transcoding, audio transcoding, and extracting metadata from AIGC audio and video. | 2025-11-27 | All regions | |
Data retrieval | Added a feature that offers comprehensive, multi-modal search capabilities for your data stored in TOS. | 2025-11-27 | All regions | |
Audio transcoding | The AudioConvert API is now generally available. | 2025-11-27 | All regions | |
Workflow | The workflow-related APIs are now generally available. | 2025-11-27 | All regions | |
Image processing | Added the GrayScale and ImageSlim APIs for setting images to grayscale and performing intelligent image compression. | 2025-11-27 | All regions | |
Media processing | Added APIs for remuxing audio/video files, querying the status of asynchronous media tasks, extracting AIGC metadata, and concatenating audio segments. | 2025-11-27 | All regions | |
Burst bandwidth | Burst bandwidth is now generally available. | 2025-11-27 | All regions | |
FSX | Added the tos_symlink_mode mount parameter to specify the symlink mode. | 2025-11-24 | All regions | |
Mirroring | You can now configure primary and secondary servers for mirroring. | 2025-11-10 | All regions | |
FSX |
| 2025-11-03 | All regions |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Access point permission management | You can now configure multi-region access point policies to grant accounts permissions on their corresponding buckets. This simplifies the management of cross-region and cross-bucket permission policies. | 2025-10-27 | All regions | |
| You can now assign a different permission policy to each single-region access point. When accessing TOS through an access point, your permissions are limited to the actions, resources, and conditions defined in its policy. This allows for differentiated access control for different lines of business or roles. | 2025-10-27 | All regions | |
TOS Browser | TOS Browser now supports switching interface language. | 2025-10-24 | All regions | |
| TOS Browser now supports accessing TOS via an HTTP proxy. | 2025-10-24 | All regions | |
Storage Lens dashboard |
| 2025-10-16 | All regions | |
Bucket inventory | Bucket inventory now supports exporting the access tiers of objects in Intelligent Tiering. | 2025-10-16 | All regions | |
Multi-region access points | Multi-region access points are now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta). Currently, you can use this feature in China (Beijing), China (Shanghai), China (Guangzhou), China (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Johor), and Asia Pacific (Jakarta). | 2025-10-16 | All regions | |
TOS accelerator | TOS accelerators are now available in Asia Pacific (Johor) Availability Zone B. Currently, you can create TOS accelerators in China (Beijing) Availability Zone E, China (Shanghai) Availability Zone E, China (Guangzhou) Availability Zone C, and Asia Pacific (Johor) Availability Zone B. | 2025-10-16 | China (Beijing), China (Shanghai), China (Guangzhou), and Asia Pacific (Johor) |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Intelligent Tiering |
| 2025-09-28 | All regions | |
Media processing | Added the VideoAnimation API for converting video files to animated images. | 2025-09-26 | All regions | |
Retention policy | You can now use a retention policy to prevent objects from being deleted or overwritten for a set period of time. This feature enables write-once, read-many (WORM) storage. | 2025-09-26 | All regions | |
tosutil | Added the - f parameter to indicate whether to skip the confirmation prompt when overwriting local files. | 2025-09-26 | All regions | |
FSX | Passwordless mounting of buckets or specified directories via FSX is now available. | 2025-09-24 | All regions | |
tosutil | tosutil now supports configuring an HTTP proxy, allowing access to TOS through the proxy. | 2025-09-23 | All regions | |
| tosutil now supports generating pre-signed URLs via the presign command. | 2025-09-23 | All regions | |
Multi-AZ redundancy | Multi-AZ redundancy is now in China (Guangzhou) and Asia Pacific (Johor). Currently, you can use this feature in China (Beijing), China (Shanghai), China (Guangzhou), and Asia Pacific (Johor). | 2025-09-23 | China (Beijing), China (Shanghai), China (Guangzhou), and Asia Pacific (Johor) | |
Burst bandwidth | TOS now supports the automatic allocation of additional temporary bandwidth based on actual usage and the applied burst bandwidth cap. This ensures smooth operation during periods of high usage. | 2025-09-22 | All regions | |
Event notification | You can now deliver event notifications to Message Queue for Kafka to monitor TOS resource changes in real time. | 2025-09-04 | All regions | |
| HNS buckets now support event notifications. | 2025-09-04 | All regions | |
| Event notification now supports the following event types: tos:ObjectCreated:Modify, tos:ObjectCreated:Append, tos:ObjectRename, tos:ObjectRemoved:TrashMoved, and tos:LifecycleExpiration:TrashMoved. | 2025-09-04 | All regions | |
Image Processing Experience Center | The TOS console now provides a graphical interface for visually managing image processing configurations, featuring tools for image cropping and watermarking. | 2025-09-04 | All regions | |
Pre-signed link | Added the ability to generate pre-signed URLs using custom domains associated with buckets. | 2025-09-04 | All regions | |
TOS Browser |
| 2025-09-03 | All regions | |
Object expiration time | Added the SetObjectExpires API, which alllows you set or modify an object's expiration time. | 2025-09-02 | All regions |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
TOS Browser |
| 2025-08-11 | All regions | |
| Optimized task progress management by highlighting failed tasks. | 2025-08-11 | All regions | |
tosutil | Changed the default value of the -p parameter in the cp (download objects) command to 5. | 2025-08-07 | All regions | |
| Added the following parameters to the configuration file:
| 2025-08-07 | All regions |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
TLS version | TOS now allows you to specify the Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions that will be used for secure communication. | 2025-07-31 | All regions | |
Server-side encryption | The SM4 encryption algorithm is now supported with SSE-TOS and SSE-KMS. | 2025-07-31 | China (Beijing) and China (Shanghai) | |
Previewing objects | The TOS console now supports previewing image, audio, and video files. | 2025-07-31 | All regions | |
Uploading objects | Added the if-match and if-none-match parameters for ETag conditional checks when uploading objects. | 2025-07-31 | All regions | |
TOS Browser |
| 2025-07-23 | All regions | |
Requester Pays | Added Requester Pays, which is a billing model that shifts the data transfer costs from the data owner to the requester. In this model, the requester pays for both the data transfer and the request. Meanwhile, the bucket owner pays for the data storage and any other related costs. | 2025-07-07 | All regions | |
Lifecycle rule | You can now copy and search lifecycle rules. | 2025-07-07 | All regions | |
FSX | FSX is now generally available. | 2025-07-04 | All regions |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
TOS Browser | You can now share authorization codes with others, allowing them to log in to TOS Browser and access TOS resources without extra credentials. | 2025-06-13 | All regions | |
Log storage | You can now save access logs directly to a specified bucket for auditing, reconciliation, and troubleshooting purposes. | 2025-06-04 | All regions |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
TOS accelerator | A TOS accelerator caches frequently accessed files to provide low-latency, high-throughput data acceleration services. It is ideal for scenarios that require high bandwidth and repeated data reads, such as model inference and training and big data analytics acceleration. tip TOS accelerators are currently in closed beta. Please contact your account manager for access. | 2025-05-30 | China (Beijing), China (Shanghai), and China (Guangzhou) | |
Mirroring | You can now add a prefix or suffix and replace the filename prefix when configuring the back-to-origin address of a mirroring rule. | 2025-05-30 | All regions | |
Storage Lens | You can now view storage growth of the top N prefixes and analyze trend change. | 2025-05-30 | China (Beijing), China (Guangzhou), China (Shanghai), Asia Pacific (Johor), and China (Hong Kong) | |
CDN notification | You can now use CDN notification to force Content Delivery Network (CDN) to update specific objects and ensure that users receive the latest data from TOS. | 2025-05-22 | China (Beijing), China (Guangzhou), and China (Shanghai) | |
Storage Lens | Storage Lens is now generally available. | 2025-05-20 | China (Beijing), China (Guangzhou), China (Shanghai), Asia Pacific (Johor), and China (Hong Kong) | |
Storage type | Cold Archive is now available in China (Guangzhou). Currently, you can use this storage type in China (Beijing), China (Shanghai), and China (Guangzhou). | 2025-05-15 | All regions | |
QoS policy | QoS policy is now generally available. | 2025-05-12 | All regions |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
tosutil | Modified multiple parameters of the mount command. Specifically:
| 2025-04-29 | All regions | |
| Changed the default value of skipWriteSucceedRecord to true. | 2025-04-29 | All regions | |
Mirroring | You can now select whether to write the requested object to the bucket when a range download triggers a mirroring action. | 2025-04-29 | All regions | |
Folder statistics | The TOS console now supports calculating the number of objects and the total data size within a folder. | 2025-04-27 | All regions | |
GetBucketInfo | Added the GetBucketInfo API, which retrieves bucket configuration. | 2025-04-27 | All regions | |
Bucket policy | Added the volc:ViaConsole and volc:RequestTagKeys conditions when configuring a bucket policy in visual view. | 2025-04-27 | All regions | |
AIGC | You can now use AIGC-related APIs to combine TOS's image processing features with Doubao's large models. | 2025-04-27 | All regions | |
TOS Browser |
| 2025-04-01 | All regions |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
tosutil | Added the -nftr parameter to the cp (download objects) and fcp (copy local files) commands; added the noTruncateForCreateNewFile parameter to the configuration file. These two parameters both serve the purpose of determining whether to use the Truncate parameter to specify the file size. | 2025-03-28 | All regions | |
QoS policy | Added the NotResource and NotPrincipal parameters to specify which resources and accounts are not subject to throttling. | 2025-03-25 | All regions | |
Bucket policy | You can now use NotAction with "Effect":"Allow". This combination allows all actions except those specified by NotAction. | 2025-03-25 | All regions | |
Multi-region access points | You can now set up back-to-origin rules for a multi-region access point. With these rules, if you request an object from an underlying bucket via the access point and the object does not exist, TOS retrieves the object from the other underlying buckets and returns it to the client. | 2025-03-25 | All regions | |
Data processing | A pipeline is a series of commands connected by pipeline operators (|). TOS enables you to use these operators to chain multiple data processing operations, eliminating the need for manual transfer of intermediate results. TOS then executes these operations in the defined order. | 2025-03-25 | All regions | |
| TOS now allows access to private m3u8 files, ensuring their security while fulfilling your access needs. | 2025-03-25 | All regions | |
| You can now apply the Q parameter to JPEG-2000, AVIF, and HEIC images. | 2025-03-25 | All regions | |
| You can now convert HEIC files to other formats. | 2025-03-25 | All regions | |
| TOS can now process videos in the WebM format using VP8 or VP9 encoding. | 2025-03-25 | All regions | |
Custom domain | You can now specify the access protocol for a custom domain. | 2025-03-25 | All regions | |
Hierarchical namespace | Added Recycle Bin. With this feature, deleted objects or directories will first be moved to the Recycle Bin and will only be automatically deleted after the expiration time has passed. | 2025-03-25 | All regions | |
Event rule | You can now configure alerts for TOS events in Cloud Monitor. When specified events occur, the system will send you an alert notification via your chosen method. | 2025-03-10 | All regions | |
Multi-region access points | A TOS multi-region access point provides a global endpoint that allows you to access multiple buckets distributed across different regions. | 2025-03-06 | All regions |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
tosutil | tosutil now supports anonymous access to TOS. | 2025-02-27 | All regions | |
TOS Browser | TOS Browser now supports scheduled uploads. | 2025-02-24 | All regions | |
| TOS Browser now has a side panel on the left that displays buckets, making it easy to switch between them. | 2025-02-24 | All regions | |
| TOS Browser now has an address bar at the top, making it easier to access the current file path. | 2025-09-24 | All regions | None |
Server-side encryption | SSE-TOS and SSE-KMS are now available in China (Shanghai) and Asia Pacific (Johor). | 2025-02-20 | All regions | |
RenameObject | Added the x-tos-forbid-overwrite parameter to the RenameObject API. This parameter controls whether objects with the same name are overwritten when renamed. | 2025-02-20 | All regions | |
tosutil | tosutil now fully supports HNS buckets. | 2025-02-13 | All regions | |
| Added the -adr parameter to the mount command for recursive directory deletion. | 2025-02-13 | All regions | |
| Added the configuration parameters, allowNoDelimiterForFns and printMemUsage. Specifically:
| 2025-02-13 | All regions |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
Feature | Description | Release date | Supported regions | Related documentation |
TOS Browser | You can now obtain the pre-signed URL of an object with one click. This makes sharing objects easier. | 2025-01-06 | All regions | |
Lifecycle rule | You can now configure lifecycle rules based on when an object was last accessed (last access time). You can instruct TOS to automatically move an object to a different storage type when it remains unaccessed for a preset number of days. | 2025-01-02 | All regions | |
Bucket list | You can now sort buckets by name, capacity, or creation time in the bucket list. | 2025-01-02 | All regions | |
tosutil | Modified multiple parameters of the mount command. Specifically:
| 2025-01-14 | All regions |