Administrator’s Guide

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5.2. Exporting Data via S3
3. Type a new password in the corresponding field and click Done. The password should be 12 to 16 char-
acters long for Windows clients to be able to establish connection.
The new password will become active after target reboot.
5.2 Exporting Data via S3
Acronis Storage allows you to export cluster disk space to customers in the form of an S3-like object-based
storage.
Acronis Storage is implemented as an Amazon S3-like API, which is one of the most common object storage
APIs. End users can work with Acronis Storage as they work with Amazon S3. You can use the usual applications
for S3 and continue working with it after the data migration from Amazon S3 to Acronis Storage.
Object storage is a storage architecture that enables managing data as objects (like in a key-value storage) as
opposed to files on file systems or blocks in a block storage. Except for the data, each object has metadata
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