title: Storage -> Overview

## Overview ##

Storage API allows you to manage cloud storage and services such as Amazon S3,
Rackspace CloudFiles, Google Storage and [others](/supported_providers.html).

### Terminology ###

* **Object** - represents an object or so called BLOB.
* **Container** - represents a container which can contain multiple objects. You
can think of it as a folder on a file system. Difference between container and a
folder on file system is that containers cannot be nested. Some APIs also call
it a **Bucket**.