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Torch Object Storage

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Use cases

This topic describes the use cases for TOS.

Video on demand

TOS is an ideal storage platform for video-on-demand (VOD) solutions. It delivers high concurrency, reliability, and low latency, as well as cost-effective, serverless storage. Integrating TOS with VOD services and a Content Delivery Network (CDN) accelerates the deployment of ultra-fast, secure, and highly available on-demand video solutions. Key advantages include:

High performance: TOS allows you to quickly scale up to handle large numbers of concurrent connections and sudden traffic surges in on-demand situations.

Cost efficiency: The mirroring feature reduces public bandwidth costs for origin servers through intelligent content fetching. The lifecycle feature allows you to delete objects in bulk to optimize storage utilization and minimize costs.

High reliability: TOS supports time-based traffic shaping to dynamically manage CDN and mirror back-to-origin requests during traffic bursts. This feature reduces the load on origin servers while ensuring service availability during periods of high demand.

Audio and video live streaming

TOS offers a low-cost, highly scalable storage solution for businesses that live stream. You can store all the data generated during video recording and review. TOS's lifecycle rules allow you to control costs effectively while meeting regulatory requirements. Key advantages include:

High scalability: TOS can handle 10 times the traffic during evening peaks with ease.

Cost efficiency: TOS has elastic scaling capabilities and can dynamically expand storage capacity based on demand. It can also automatically manage resources, improving operational efficiency and reducing maintenance costs. For example, you can use lifecycle rules to automatically switch between storage types.

Stability and reliability: TOS has a data durability of 99.999999999%.

Video surveillance

TOS offers large-scale storage with the capacity to manage over 100 billion objects, terabits-per-second bandwidth for high-throughput access, and simple HTTP integration for straightforward deployment. TOS provides individuals and businesses with an optimal cost-to-performance ratio and robust security for video surveillance storage. Key advantages include:

High performance: TOS offers ultra-low latency for smooth live streaming and playback.

Cost efficiency: TOS has elastic scaling capabilities and can dynamically expand storage capacity based on demand. It can also automatically manage resources, improving operational efficiency and reducing maintenance costs. For example, you can use lifecycle rules to automatically switch between storage types.

Stability and reliability: TOS has a data durability of 99.999999999%.

Mobile photo albums/Cloud drive

TOS offers large-scale storage, integrated media processing (images and videos), various server-side encryption methods, and intelligent tiering. It delivers exceptional data storage and processing performance while minimizing costs. Key advantages include:

High scalability: TOS can manage over 100 billion objects with exabyte-level storage.

Extreme security: TOS supports various encryption methods such as SSE-TOS and SSE-C, to ensure absolute data security.

Reduced complexity: TOS simplifies data management through intelligent tiering, lifecycle management, and tag-based resource management.

Rich media: TOS can process multiple types of media, including images and videos. With TOS, you can resize and add watermarks to images, extract frames from video files, and view video information.

Machine learning

A hierarchical namespace (HNS) bucket is an innovative type of bucket in TOS featuring a hierarchical metadata management architecture. It enables you to rename directories with sub-100 millisecond latency. HNS buckets can manage over 100 billion objects and offer exabyte-level storage. HNS buckets are ideal for machine learning workloads that require high data durability, such as data collection and transfer. Key advantages include:

High performance: TOS delivers high-performance, atomic directory and file operations. You can rename extremely large directories and files in a matter of milliseconds.

High scalability: TOS can manage over 100 billion objects with exabyte-level storage.

Ecosystem compatibility: TOS can seamlessly integrate with various open source ecosystems of Volcano Engine. This enables users to flexibly build AI pipelines based on TOS.

Autonomous driving

With data durability of 99.999999999% (eleven nines) and exabyte-level storage, TOS can meet the data storage and processing needs of businesses in the autonomous driving industry. Applicable scenarios include in-vehicle data collection, processing, training, analysis, and distribution. Key advantages include:

High scalability: TOS can manage over 100 billion objects with exabyte-level storage.

Diverse access methods: TOS supports data express service, Data Migration Service (DMS), and various tools that are compatible with AWS S3.

Reduced complexity: TOS simplifies data management through intelligent tiering, lifecycle management, and tag-based resource management.

Enterprise-grade data storage and management

TOS offers several storage options, including Standard Storage, Infrequent Access Storage, Archive, and Cold Archive. Through intelligent tiering, it automatically moves data between storage types, or tiers, based on object creation or modification time, object tags, and data access frequency, thereby minimizing costs. Key advantages include:

Data tiering: TOS offers data tiering strategies, such as Intelligent Tiering Storage and Lifecycle. Intelligent Tiering Storage automatically shifts data to the most cost-effective access tier when access patterns change. The lifecycle feature moves data based on the number of days an object has been uploaded or on object tags.

Data access: TOS offers various access methods, such as mirroring, static website hosting, and custom domain name support.

Data security: TOS provides various data encryption methods, including SSE-TOS and SSE-C, and enables log retrieval and analysis when you access TOS. With the help of Cloud Monitor, TOS allows you to monitor object storage status and performance. Cloud Monitor detects storage capacity, bandwidth, and other anomalies and sends alert notifications to ensure absolute data security.

Last updated: 2026.08.20 17:47:39