Object storage service with managed cache and common interface for accessing accelerated and non-accelerated access objects

US12299294B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · US

Inventors

• Enrico Sartorello · Berlin, DE
• Jessie E Felix · Berlin, DE
• Seth W. Markle · Seattle, US
• Andrew Kent Warfield · Vancouver, CA
• Leon Thrane · Issaquah, US
• Valentin Flunkert · Berlin, DE
• Miroslav Miladinovic · Berlin, DE
• Christoph Bartenstein · Wien, AT
• James Caleb Kirschner · Seattle, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 30, 2023
• Grant date: May 13, 2025
• Expiry date: Jun 30, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/568
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An object storage system includes mass storage devices that implement general storage for objects stored in the object storage system and additionally includes other storage devices, such as solid-state drives, that provide higher performance storage access. The object storage system implements a common access interface for accessing both accelerated access objects (who are eligible to have cached copies stored on the higher performance storage devices) and non-accelerated access objects stored in the general storage. The cache is fully managed by the service and no changes are required for client applications to receive accelerated access to objects that are classified as accelerated access objects per a customer configurable acceleration policy for the object or for a bucket in which the object is stored.