- S3 Developer Guide
- Endpoints and Access Keys
- Third-Party Tools
- Veeam®
- Veeam® 12 Direct-to-Cloud
- MSP360
- MSP360 Cloudberry
- MSP360 CloudBerry Explorer
- MSP360 Managed Backup Service
- Ahsay
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud
- Anchorpoint
- AirLiveDrive
- Archiware P5
- Arcserve
- Arcserve ImageManager
- Arq Backup
- BackupAssist
- Bunny.net
- ChronoSync
- Cloudmounter
- Cloudflare
- Comet
- Couchbase
- cPanel Backup
- CrossFTP
- CuttingRoom
- CubeBackup
- Cyberduck
- Dell
- Dropshare
- Duplicacy
- Duplicati
- EditShare
- ExpanDrive
- Fastly CDN
- Files.com
- Filezilla Pro
- Flexify.IO
- GoodSync
- Hammerspace
- Hedge OffShoot
- Hitachi Content Platform
- iconik
- Iperius Backup
- iRODS
- Jet Backup5
- LucidLink
- Milestone XProtect
- Mountain Duck
- MultCloud
- /n software S3 Drive
- NAKIVO Backup and Replication
- Nextcloud
- NirvaShare
- NovaBACKUP
- odrive
- Photos+ Cloud Library
- PureStorage
- qBackup
- QNAP
- Quest Rapid Recovery
- Rclone
- Restic
- Retrospect
- S3 Browser
- S3cmd
- S3Drive
- s5cmd
- S3FS
- SFTPCloud
- SimpleBackups
- Snowflake
- SyncBackPro
- Syncovery
- Synology Hyper Backup
- Synology Cloud Sync
- Transmit
- TrueNAS® CORE
- UpdraftPlus Backup
- Vantage Gateway
- Veeam® Backup for Microsoft 365
- Vembu BDR Suite
- Veritas Backup Exec
- WinSCP
- Windows Network Drive
- CNAME Record Guide
- S3 API Documentation
How IDrive® e2 region end-points and access keys are different when compared to other object storage providers
In general Amazon S3 or other object storage providers maintain fixed region end-points and global access keys that works for all the regions, e.g., us-east-1.amazonaws.com, us-east-2.amazonaws.com, us-west-1.amazonaws.com, us-west-2.amazonaws.com. However in IDrive® e2, every user has their own unique region end-points and access keys specific to those region end-points.
Benefits of unique user region end-points and access keys
IDrive® e2 is one of the fastest object storage in the market and we have designed this end-points system by considering performance and security reasons. The following section provides more details on the benefits of this design:
- Avoid unnecessary internal network hops to locate the buckets which helps to reduce the latency and improve the performance.
- Avoid HTTP level request parsing for each call that introduces a delay in request processing.
- Eliminate systemwide unique bucket name restrictions like other service providers. Hence, IDrive® e2 allows bucket creation with names that may exist for other users.
- Prevent and avoid misuse of public buckets by users. If they obtain the region endpoint URLs of one public bucket through malicious/phishing techniques, then the unique endpoint URLs minimizes the risk as other public bucket users remain unaffected.
- Get more controls and ACLs with region specific access keys.
Learn more about enabling the regions and creating access keys.