Whitepaper · 10 pages · September 2026

# Object Storage by Industry

Six buying paths, the S3 workflows each one runs, and the questions to settle before moving data

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How six industries use S3-compatible object storage, what ZCP Object Storage supports today, how to choose between ZCP Object Storage and dedicated ZSoftly Cloud Storage, and a migration checklist.

- Object Storage
- S3
- Object Lock
- AI Data
- Migration

Buying Paths

6

Industries covered

Compatible API

S3

Standard clients and SDKs

Transfer Charges

$0

Data in and out

Storage Models

2

Shared or dedicated

Inside

## What the paper covers

- ### AI and Machine Learning

  Datasets, checkpoints, evaluation artifacts and RAG source documents
- ### SaaS and Software Vendors

  Tenant uploads, exports, build artifacts and backup objects
- ### Healthcare and Finance

  Workflows and questions to settle, with no compliance claims
- ### Media and Public Sector

  Asset libraries, archives and datasets, with delivery scoped separately
- ### Choosing a Storage Model

  ZCP Object Storage or a dedicated, single-tenant ZCS cluster
- ### Migration Checklist

  Before, during and after the move, with a way back

Steps

## The migration, step by step

1. 01

   Inventory and classify

   Step 1
2. 02

   Choose model and region

   Step 2
3. 03

   Create and copy

   Step 3
4. 04

   Verify and switch

   Step 4
5. 05

   Retire the source

   Step 5

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