Use cases

Learn about using the Cloud Files API for containers, objects, CDN services, static websites, bulk operations, tempURL, FormPost, and CORS.

• Container use cases
  • Container access control lists
  • Container quotas
  • Access log delivery
• Object use cases
  • Chunked transfer encoding
  • Creating large objects
  • Creating a dynamic large object
  • Creating a static large object
  • Enabling file compression
  • Enabling bypass of browser behavior
  • Expiring objects
  • Object versioning
  • Account to account copy
• CDN use cases
  • Purge CDN-enabled containers
  • CDN-enabled containers served through SSL
  • Streaming CDN-enabled containers
  • iOS streaming
  • CDN log delivery
• Static websites using CDN-enabled containers
  • Create a static website
  • Set error pages for a static website
• Bulk operations
  • Extracting archive files
  • Bulk delete
• Public access to your Cloud Files account
  • TempURL
  • FormPost
  • CORS