Object Storage Creation and Management

Updated at：2025-12-05 11:03:25

Object Storage Service (OSS) is Alaya NeW’s object-based, large-capacity storage offering for storing massive amounts of unstructured data. Depending on your organization’s current storage provisioning, you can create Object Storage using one of the two methods described below.

Prerequisites

• You have an Alaya New enterprise account and password. If you need assistance or have not yet registered, see Account Registration.

• Your enterprise account has sufficient balance to cover storage usage. See Pricing.For additional questions, contact us:

Procedure

Follow the steps below to create Object Storage, provision storage capacity, manage storage, and manage objects—so you can store data efficiently and securely.

Create Object Storage

1. Sign in to the Alaya NeW console with your enterprise account. The platform provides multiple entry points for creating Object Storage; choose the path that best fits your workflow and requirements.

• After logging in, select the [Products / Storage] menu, click the "Object Storage" product to open the product overview, then click the Create Now button to proceed to the configuration page.

• Alternatively, go to [Product Center / Storage Management] and click the Create New Storage button to open the storage configuration page.

  

2. Set the necessary parameters on the configuration page as follows:

   Parameter	Description	Requirements	Requied
   AI Data Center	Data center that hosts the object storage.	Select an available data center (for example: Beijing-Region-1, Beijing-Region-2, Beijing-Region-3, Beijing-Region-4, Beijing-Region-5).	Yes
   Pricing Option	Pricing option for using data center resources.	Select a supported option (e.g., Pay-as-you-go).	Yes
   Storage Configuration	Object storage instance and total capacity.	Select the desired capacity (range: 50 GB – 4096 GB).	Yes

3. Review your settings and click "Create Now" to provision your Object Storage.

Provisioning Notification

Provisioning results will be sent via SMS (see example below). Please check your messages and safeguard your access keys.

Object Storage management

1. Sign in with your enterprise account, select [Product Center] and navigate to the Storage Management tab to view the access an overview of your resources.

   

Access storage

2. To manage Object Storage, locate your storage resource and click the Access link in the actions column.

   

This opens the file management console, which provides the following capabilities:

No.	Section	Description	Operations
①	Overview	View storage usage, quota limits, and creation time.	View
②	Access Info	View endpoint details and parameters needed for secure client configuration.	View
③	Bucket List	Buckets are the primary containers for data. Create, authorize (1), or delete buckets to isolate and manage different workloads.	Create, Authorize (1), Delete
④	Key List	Manage the list of Access Keys used for authentication and permissions (2).	Delete

• （1）After a bucket is created by an administrator, it can be authorized for subaccounts. Authorized users may further delegate bucket access if required. To authorize:

  i. Click the Authorization Management button in the bucket’s action column to open the user authorization dialog.

  ii. Select target users, import them, and click Confirm to finalize authorization.

• （2）Each Access Key is associated with a specific user and serves as a credential for accessing Object Storage (paired with a Secret Key). The Access Key functions like a password in a username+password combination.

Expand Capacity

2. Locate your existing storage instance and click the Expand link in the actions column to open the capacity expansion configuration page, as illustrated below.

   

3. Specify the desired expansion size and complete the relevant parameters. Once configuration is complete, click Submit to finish the expansion process.

tip

After expansion, the total available capacity can range from the current provisioned size up to 4,096 GB.

Shrink Capacity

2. Locate your storage instance and click the Shrink link in the actions column to open the shrink configuration page, as shown below.

   

3. Specify the amount by which you want to reduce the capacity and complete the required parameters. Once the configuration is complete, click Submit to complete the shrink operation.

tip

The shrink size must not exceed the currently available free capacity. To ensure proper functionality, at least 50 GB of available space must remain after shrinking.

Release Storage

2. Locate your storage instance and click the Release link in the actions column. A confirmation dialog will appear, as illustrated below.

   

3. After reviewing the prompt, click Confirm to complete the storage release process.

Using Object Storage

For data upload and download, we recommend using rclone. See Using Object Storage for details.

For information on accessing Object Storage from within an Virtual Kubernetes Services, see Using Object Storage with VKS.