Support for StorageGRID Webscale platform services

StorageGRID Webscale platform services enable StorageGRID Webscale tenant accounts to leverage external services such as a remote S3 bucket, a Simple Notification Service (SNS) endpoint, or an Elasticsearch cluster to extend the services provided by a grid.

The following table summarizes the available platform services and the S3 APIs used to configure them.

Platform service	Purpose	S3 API used to configure the service
CloudMirror replication	Replicates objects from a source StorageGRID Webscale bucket to the configured remote S3 bucket.	PUT Bucket replication
Notifications	Sends notifications about events in a source StorageGRID Webscale bucket to a configured Simple Notification Service (SNS) endpoint.	PUT Bucket notification
Search integration	Sends object metadata for objects stored in a StorageGRID Webscale bucket to a configured Elasticsearch index.	PUT Bucket metadata notification Note: This is a StorageGRID Webscale custom S3 API.

A grid administrator must enable the use of platform services for a tenant account before they can be used. Then, a tenant administrator must create an endpoint that represents the remote service in the tenant account. This step is required before a service can be configured.

Recommendations for using platform services

Before using platform services, you must aware of the following recommendations:

NetApp recommends that you use no more than 100 active tenants with S3 requests requiring CloudMirror replication, notifications, and search integration. Having more than 100 active tenants can result in slower S3 client performance.
If an S3 bucket in theStorageGRID Webscale system has both versioning and CloudMirror replication enabled, NetApp recommends that the destination endpoint also have S3 bucket versioning enabled. This allows CloudMirror replication to generate similar object versions on the endpoint.