# S3/Swift REST API Comparison Matrix

## General compatibility statement

S3 is a product from Amazon, and as such, it includes “features” that are outside the scope of Swift itself. For example, Swift doesn’t have anything to do with billing, whereas S3 buckets can be tied to Amazon’s billing system. Similarly, log delivery is a service outside of Swift. It’s entirely possible for a Swift deployment to provide that functionality, but it is not part of Swift itself. Likewise, a Swift deployment can provide similar geographic availability as S3, but this is tied to the deployer’s willingness to build the infrastructure and support systems to do so.

## Amazon S3 operations

S3 REST API method | Category | Swift S3 API
--- | --- | ---
GET Object | Core-API | Yes
HEAD Object | Core-API | Yes
PUT Object | Core-API | Yes
PUT Object Copy | Core-API | Yes
DELETE Object | Core-API | Yes
Initiate Multipart Upload | Core-API | Yes
Upload Part | Core-API | Yes
Upload Part Copy | Core-API | Yes
Complete Multipart Upload | Core-API | Yes
Abort Multipart Upload | Core-API | Yes
List Parts | Core-API | Yes
GET Object ACL | Core-API | Yes
PUT Object ACL | Core-API | Yes
PUT Bucket | Core-API | Yes
GET Bucket List Objects | Core-API | Yes
HEAD Bucket | Core-API | Yes
DELETE Bucket | Core-API | Yes
List Multipart Uploads | Core-API | Yes
GET Bucket acl | Core-API | Yes
PUT Bucket acl | Core-API | Yes
Versioning | Versioning | Yes
Bucket notification | Notifications | No
Bucket Lifecycle [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] | Bucket Lifecycle | No
Bucket policy | Advanced ACLs | No
Public website [7] [8] [9] [10] | Public Website | No
Billing [11] [12] | Billing | No
GET Bucket location | Advanced Feature | Yes
Delete Multiple Objects | Advanced Feature | Yes
Object tagging | Advanced Feature | No
GET Object torrent | Advanced Feature | No
Bucket inventory | Advanced Feature | No
GET Bucket service | Advanced Feature | No
Bucket accelerate | CDN Integration | No

[1]

POST restore

[2]

Bucket lifecycle

[3]

Bucket logging

[4]

Bucket analytics

[5]

Bucket metrics

[6]

Bucket replication

[7]

OPTIONS object

[8]

Object POST from HTML form

[9]

Bucket public website

[10]

Bucket CORS

[11]

Request payment

[12]

Bucket tagging

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