Overview

Object Storage Service (OBS) provides a series of documents to help you better understand and use the service.

Before using OBS, read this document and other related help documents (see Table 1) to understand the basic concepts, application scenarios, and operations of OBS, so you can quickly get started with OBS.

**Table 1** OBS documents
Document	Description
What's New	Describes the latest updates of OBS, including new functions and documents.
Function Overview	Introduces OBS functions and regions where these functions are available.
Service Overview	Introduces the basic concepts, advantages, application scenarios, billing, and permissions management of OBS.
Getting Started	Helps you quickly get started with OBS, such as creating buckets, uploading objects, and downloading objects.
Console Operation Guide	Guides you through OBS console operations with elaborated use examples.
Tools Guide	Introduces OBS tools, including OBS Browser+, obsutil, and obsfs, with use examples provided.
Image Processing Feature Guide	Describes how to use image processing on OBS Console or by calling OBS APIs.
Parallel File System Feature Guide	Introduces the basic concepts, application scenarios, limitations, user operations, and billing for the OBS Parallel File System (PFS).
Best Practices	Provides a collection of OBS best practices for typical scenarios, helping you achieve your business goals with better performance, lower costs, and more convenient operations.
API Reference	Lists the REST APIs provided by OBS, including request samples, response samples, and parameter descriptions. It helps you use APIs to conduct secondary development.
SDK Reference	Describes the OBS Software Development Kits (SDKs) in mainstream programming languages such as Java, Python, C, GO, Android, and iOS. SDKs provide parameter details, examples, and FAQs to help you smoothly conduct installation and development.
FAQs	Offers you the answers to frequently asked questions about OBS.
Videos	Provides tutorials to help you learn OBS in an intuitive way.