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A multi-cloud, S3-compatible object storage service for low latency data access anywhere.

Tigris supports Storage TiersTigris supports Storage Tiers

Tigris now supports storage tiers! Optimize your storage cost based on access patterns with three tiers: Standard, Infrequent Access, and Archive.
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How we built object notifications in TigrisHow we built object notifications in Tigris

Tigris now supports object notifications! Object notifications are how you receive events every time something changes in a bucket. This post is a deep dive into the implementation of object notifications in Tigris.
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Becoming your own Docker Registry with TigrisBecoming your own Docker Registry with Tigris

Tigris lets you store your objects around the world so that you beat the speed of light getting your data to your users faster. Sometimes those include Docker images so that you can spin up more GPU time without having to download or manage your models separately. Join on in and learn how you can become your own Docker registry!
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We're making our availability metrics publicWe're making our availability metrics public

We're Tigris, a globally distributed object storage platform built for high-performance workloads. We're making our reliability metrics public! Check out our live dashboard and see how we're providing 99.99% global availability. We're pretty sure we're the first to share this type of live production data publicly.
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How fal.ai offers the fastest generative ai in the worldHow fal.ai offers the fastest generative ai in the world

Learn how fal.ai offers the fastest generative ai in the world by using Tigris for object storage. Finding a storage solution built for an extremely performant global deployment was essential to keeping fal.ai accessible to a broad range of developers. Tigris not only was just crazy fast, it saved fal.ai 85% on their object storage costs as compared to other clouds.
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Snip, Snap, Serve: Effortless Global Image Delivery with TigrisSnip, Snap, Serve: Effortless Global Image Delivery with Tigris

Exploring Tigris' shadow bucket feature for fun and thumbnails. In the blog post the feature will be used in an less conventional fashion. An additional elixir service will generate thumbnails, where source files as well as generated thumbnails are stored on Tigris, while making use of the included CDN features of Tigris.
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What’s the Big Deal with Conditional Writes Support in S3?What’s the Big Deal with Conditional Writes Support in S3?

There has been a lot of enthusiasm about the recent announcement by AWS about support for Conditional Writes in S3. We will dive into why this is a big deal and what it means for developers. We will also explore CAS operations and how they relate to S3 Conditional Writes feature. Finally, we will discuss whether developers can now avoid client-side consensus mechanisms completely when using S3.
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Metadata Querying for Object Storage feat. ElixirMetadata Querying for Object Storage feat. Elixir

Now we get to the significantly more disruptive stuff. The things that while Tigris is an S3-compatible API it also provides features that enable entirely new use-cases and push the boundaries of what you can do with object storage. Let's see if we can't set your internal constraint-solver aflame with possibilities.
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Eager & Lazy Caching feat. Elixir

At Tigris we offer a number of novel and practical improvements beyond what your typical Object Storage does. We fit these within the existing common APIs or as graceful extensions when necessary. In this post we look at how you can take control of the Tigris caching mechanism if you feel the need.
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