Journal of Cloud Computing

Advances, Systems and Applications

Table 2 Description of the HTTP methods with request-URIs that are used to interact with storage services

From: OSSperf – a lightweight solution for the performance evaluation of object-based cloud storage services

Account-related operations
GET	/	List buckets
HEAD	/	Retrieve metadata
Bucket-related operations
GET	/bucket	List objects
PUT	/bucket	Create bucket
DELETE	/bucket	Delete bucket
HEAD	/bucket	Retrieve metadata
Object-related operations
GET	/bucket/object	Retrieve object
PUT	/bucket/object	Upload object
DELETE	/bucket/object	Delete object
HEAD	/bucket/object	Retrieve metadata
POST	/bucket/object	Update object

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