S3/Swift REST API Comparison Matrix

General compatibility statement

S3 is a product from Amazon, and as such, it includes “features” that are outside the scope of Swift itself. For example, Swift doesn’t have anything to do with billing, whereas S3 buckets can be tied to Amazon’s billing system. Similarly, log delivery is a service outside of Swift. It’s entirely possible for a Swift deployment to provide that functionality, but it is not part of Swift itself. Likewise, a Swift deployment can provide similar geographic availability as S3, but this is tied to the deployer’s willingness to build the infrastructure and support systems to do so.

Amazon S3 operations

S3 REST API method	Category	Swift S3 API
GET Object	Core-API	Yes
HEAD Object	Core-API	Yes
PUT Object	Core-API	Yes
PUT Object Copy	Core-API	Yes
DELETE Object	Core-API	Yes
Initiate Multipart Upload	Core-API	Yes
Upload Part	Core-API	Yes
Upload Part Copy	Core-API	Yes
Complete Multipart Upload	Core-API	Yes
Abort Multipart Upload	Core-API	Yes
List Parts	Core-API	Yes
GET Object ACL	Core-API	Yes
PUT Object ACL	Core-API	Yes
PUT Bucket	Core-API	Yes
GET Bucket List Objects	Core-API	Yes
HEAD Bucket	Core-API	Yes
DELETE Bucket	Core-API	Yes
List Multipart Uploads	Core-API	Yes
GET Bucket acl	Core-API	Yes
PUT Bucket acl	Core-API	Yes
Object tagging	Core-API	Yes
Versioning	Versioning	Yes
Bucket notification	Notifications	No
Bucket Lifecycle 1 2 3 4 5 6	Bucket Lifecycle	No
Bucket policy	Advanced ACLs	No
Public website 7 8 9 10	Public Website	No
Billing 11 12	Billing	No
GET Bucket location	Advanced Feature	Yes
Delete Multiple Objects	Advanced Feature	Yes
GET Object torrent	Advanced Feature	No
Bucket inventory	Advanced Feature	No
GET Bucket service	Advanced Feature	No
Bucket accelerate	CDN Integration	No

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POST restore

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Bucket lifecycle

3

Bucket logging

4

Bucket analytics

5

Bucket metrics

6

Bucket replication

7

OPTIONS object

8

Object POST from HTML form

9

Bucket public website

10

Bucket CORS

11

Request payment

12

Bucket tagging