(Distributed) Object storage services provide an interface for managing objects (data) in an object-storage system. Object storage is a data storage architecture for handling large amounts of unstructured data. Objects can be stored locally, but most often reside on cloud servers, with accessibility from anywhere via the network. Each object is a simple, self-contained repository that includes the data, metadata (descriptive information associated with an object), and a unique identifying ID number (instead of a file name and file path). This information enables an application to locate and access the object. Software-defined object storage solution can aggregate individual object storage devices can into larger storage pools which can be distributed across different locations. This allows for unlimited scale, policy-driven data-management functions like data replication and data distribution at object-level granularity, to optimize data availability, protection, performance, and cost.