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Common Object Management Service
Common Object Management Service
Natural Resource Sector
Using COMS, take advantage of more cost-effective storage solutions for your new or existing business applications with an authorization and authentication method that suits your application’s business requirements. COMS is a secure REST API that lets you connect your application to any S3 bucket. In S3, you can store and share files, images and documents with co-workers, partners or the public.
No need to have a new project or team build and maintain similar functionality or incur high storage cost. We provide Docker Images for hosting your own Common Object Management service to assist with your document management needs or you can use the hosted service. To determine which service is best for you, review our hosting considerations.
Use COMS to:
- Upload, download, manage and delete objects
- Discover, update and manage object versions
- Toggle general public access to objects
- Grant and manage refined user object permissions
- Flexible search and filter capabilities of metadata and tags based on user permissions
Why should I use this
Cost effective
Save costs on storage and time and cost on development. Completely reusable and supported API that is easy to onboard to and easy to use while avoiding duplicate development effort.
Reduces Duplication
Documents can be shared with other applications or people minimizing duplication and multiple copies.
Secure
Files are stored in a secure, organized and cost appropriate location for their type of usage and are accessible quickly for search, sharing, retrieval and archiving including metadata information. Align COMS with your chosen method of authentication and authorization.
About this component
Price
Free
The service is available free to government development teams.Price details
The Natural Resource Sector Common Services Showcase team offers comprehensive documentation.Service level support
Review the NRS Common Services Showcase and our GitHub Repository where you will find the API specification, the Docker Hub service image and extensive documentation.Additional technical information
Getting started
All information on using this REST API is available on our catalogue, or you can review our Quick Start guide. We’ve also launched BCBox, a user-interface for managing object storage files, integrated with the hosted COMS service.
https://bcgov.github.io/common-service-showcase/services/coms.html
Support
The Natural Resource Sector Common Services Showcase team offers support Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm on through: