Administration

This section provides documentation for administering AIStor Object Store deployments. Use this documentation to configure identity and access management, manage objects and buckets, set up replication, and configure the features that control how your deployment operates.

AIStor requires authentication for every operation and uses policy-based access control to define authorized actions. Use AIStor’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) controls to manage who can access your deployment and what they can do, whether you use the built-in identity manager or integrate with external providers like OpenID Connect (OIDC) or Active Directory/LDAP.

Objects and Versioning covers how AIStor organizes and manages data. Learn about managing objects, object naming conventions, and planning object hierarchies for optimal performance. Enable versioning to preserve the complete history of object changes, supporting both recovery from accidental deletions and compliance requirements.

Control object removal with locking and immutability options that enforce Write-Once Read-Many (WORM) protection for versioned objects with either GOVERNANCE or COMPLIANCE type holds.

Automate time-based operations on objects with Object Lifecycle Management. For example, you can expire objects after specified periods or number of versions to manage storage consumption or meet data retention policies.

Use Bucket Notifications to send event notifications to external services when operations occur on buckets or objects. AIStor supports configuring notifications for a variety of targets including Kafka, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, webhooks, and common database solutions.

Synchronize clusters across locations with multiple replication strategies including at the site level, at the bucket level, or using custom batch rules. Choose site replication for complete cluster synchronization, bucket replication for select buckets, or batch replication for scheduled transfers and granular control.

The AIStor Console provides a graphical user interface for managing your deployment. Access identity and access management, monitor metrics and logs, configure server settings, and browse objects through a web-based interface.

AIStor Tables implements native Apache Iceberg tables support directly in object storage. Create, manage, and query Iceberg tables without external catalog services or metadata databases. Applications can use the Iceberg REST Catalog API alongside standard S3 operations to access both structured tables and unstructured objects in the same deployment.