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Posts from the Tigris engineering team about how we build global object storage for any cloud — low-latency access anywhere, millions of buckets, and 99.99% availability you can rely on.

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Giving your Go apps Tigris superpowers

The Go Storage SDK adds first-class methods for bucket forking, snapshots, and object renaming — plus a simpler high-level client for everyday storage code.
Xe Iaso · · 6 min read
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Introducing storagesdk.dev

StorageSDK is a provider-agnostic storage API for Node.js: one interface across S3, R2, Azure, GCS, Tigris, and more, with snapshots and forks built in.
Abdullah Ibrahim · · 8 min read
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We gave just-bash persistent storage

Meet @tigrisdata/agent-shell: a virtual bash environment that gives AI agents persistent storage on Tigris buckets, with forks and snapshots for safety.
Xe Iaso, Abdullah Ibrahim, Katie Schilling · · 5 min read
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Introducing Multi-Region and Dual-Region Buckets

Tigris now lets you choose exactly how your data is replicated across regions. Pick from four bucket location types (global, multi-region, dual-region, and single-region), each with built-in consistency and availability guarantees.
David Myriel · · 9 min read
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Deriving the Tigris Go SDK

Tigris now has an official Go SDK! Learn how storage-go provides both an AWS S3 drop-in replacement and an ergonomic high-level interface for Go developers.
Xe Iaso · · 5 min read
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Bucket snapshots are git tags for your bucket

Whole bucket snapshots, like git tags for your bucket. Snapshots enable point-in-time recovery, reproducibility, and version control for object storage - finally bringing snapshot semantics to the entire object storage namespace.
Katie Schilling, Xe Iaso · · 5 min read
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Fork Buckets Like You Fork Code

Fork your data like you fork your code. With Tigris, create isolated copies of your data for development, testing, or experimentation without waiting for full copies.
Katie Schilling · · 6 min read
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We made unhateable IAM. Here’s how to use it.

Tigris introduces an IAM Policy Builder that simplifies permissions and provides a VSCode-like editor experience. This tool aims to make IAM policy development easier and more secure by focusing on least privilege from the start.
Xe Iaso, Katie Schilling · · 7 min read
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mount -t tigrisfs

Learn how Tigris Data's tigrisfs provides a native filesystem interface for unlimited, globally accessible cloud storage. Bridge the gap between cloud and local, enabling seamless integration with existing tools and tackling big data challenges for AI, analytics, and more.
Xe Iaso, Katie Schilling, Ovais Tariq, Yevgeniy Firsov · · 12 min read
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Eliminating Data Migration Risk with Shadow Buckets on Tigris

Eliminate data migration risks with Tigris's Shadow Bucket Migration. Learn how to move data seamlessly with incremental, two-way door strategies and avoid downtime. Discover the benefits of read/write fallback and multi-region synchronization for object storage.
Xe Iaso, Katie Schilling, Yevgeniy Firsov · · 7 min read
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Sharing Files with the Model Context Protocol

We built a tool to upload a file to a bucket and then create a sharable URL. Sounds so easy an AI could do it, but can it? Models struggle to break down multi-step tasks, so we design higher order tools for them.
Katie Schilling · · 10 min read
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Announcing the Tigris MCP server

Want to do vibe coding with Tigris? We released a MCP server so you can make it happen. 😎
Xe Iaso, Katie Schilling, Abdullah Ibrahim · · 6 min read
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Moving to Virtual Hosted URLs

We're transitioning to virtual hosted style URLs for all new buckets created after February 19, 2025.
Katie Schilling · · 3 min read
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Using Tigris as a Filesystem

Object storage can be used as a filesystem in Kubernetes with the right setup. Here's how I set it up on my homelab cluster and the tradeoffs I made in the process.
Xe Iaso · · 11 min read
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Tigris supports Storage Tiers

Tigris now supports storage tiers! Optimize your storage cost based on access patterns with three tiers: Standard, Infrequent Access, and Archive.
Katie Schilling · · 6 min read
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How 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.
Garren · · 5 min read
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We'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…
Katie Schilling, Xe Iaso · · 4 min read
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We're enabling billing for Tigris in July

Since we launched our public beta three months ago, our usage has skyrocketed, and hundreds of early adopters have picked Tigris as their storage solution. We've implemented tons of requested features and invested heavily in Tigris' performance, security, and reliability. With that, we will start bi…
Ovais Tariq · · 4 min read
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Announcing Tigris Seed Round led by Andreessen Horowitz

Tigris is a globally distributed object storage service that provides low latency anywhere in the world, enabling developers like you to store and access any amount of data using the S3 libraries you're already using in production. Today, we're announcing our seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Ovais Tariq · · 6 min read