Updated on 2025-04-25 GMT+08:00

What's New

The following tables describe the features released in each Object Storage Service (OBS) version and corresponding documentation updates.

January 2025

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Object tags supported

Object tags are used to categorize objects in an OBS bucket. You can specify object tags in a lifecycle rule to apply the rule to objects labeled with the specified tags.

Open beta testing

Object Tags

2

Object versioning page updated

The Versions tab is deleted from the object details page. The Historical Versions button is added above the object list, so that historical versions can be displayed in the object list.

Commercial use

Listing Objects

December 2024

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

Bucket's Overview page optimized

The layout of a bucket's Overview page is re-organized. There are a range of modules added, including usage statistics, alarm monitoring, process flows for common scenarios, domain name details, FAQs, and learn more.

Commercial use

Viewing Basic Information of a Bucket

2

Permissions configuration page optimized

The new edition makes your policy configuration in a visual way more intuitive.

Commercial use

Creating a Bucket Policy with a Template

Creating a Custom Bucket Policy (Visual Editor)

3

Sorting and search of buckets, objects, and files improved

  • You can search for buckets by bucket name keyword, region, storage class, and enterprise project. You can sort buckets by bucket name, storage class, region, storage usage, number of objects, enterprise project, and last modification time.
  • You can search for objects or files by storage class, last modification time, or object/file name prefix and sort them by size or last modification time.

Commercial use

Searching for a Bucket

Searching for an Object or a Folder

4

Bucket list exporting available on OBS Console

You can export the bucket list on OBS Console. The list file contains the basic information about all buckets of an account, including the bucket name, storage class, region, data redundancy policy, storage usage, number of objects, and creation time.

Commercial use

Exporting a Bucket List

March 2023

No.

Feature

Description

Phase

Document

1

User-defined domain name configuration available

You can now bind a user-defined domain name to an OBS bucket so that you can access files stored in OBS through the user-defined domain name.

Commercial use

User-Defined Domain Name Configuration

2

Bucket encryption

OBS now supports server-side encryption for buckets. All objects uploaded to an encrypted bucket will be encrypted as well. You can enable the default encryption when creating a bucket or for an existing bucket.

Commercial use

Configuring Bucket Default Encryption

3

Bucket inventories

A bucket inventory can list objects in a bucket, save the related object information in CSV files, and deliver the CSV files to the bucket specified for storing bucket inventory files.

Commercial use

Bucket Inventory

4

Bucket tags

Tags are used to identify and classify OBS buckets. If you add tags to a bucket, service detail records (SDRs) generated by the requests against this bucket will be labeled with these tags, enabling you to classify SDRs for detailed cost analysis.

Commercial use

Tags