Abstract: Facilitating the generation of ephemeral credentials and verification thereof within a distributed storage system is provided herein. Based on a request for ephemeral credentials from a first account client to a first node of a first storage instance of a distributed system, generating the ephemeral credential comprising a session token and a secret session key for the first account client by a method that derives the secret session key using a first account private key and a first storage instance public key. This session token along with a signature generated using the secret session key of the ephemeral credential is subsequently used to make further requests to a second node of a second storage instance of the distributed system where the secret session key is independently derived using information in the request and the previously shared first account private key to verify the signature in the request.

Abstract: Facilitating the generation of ephemeral credentials and verification thereof within a distributed storage system is provided herein. Based on a request for ephemeral credentials from a first account client to a first node of a first storage instance of a distributed system, generating the ephemeral credential comprising a session token and a secret session key for the first account client by a method that derives the secret session key using a first account private key and a first storage instance public key. This session token along with a signature generated using the secret session key of the ephemeral credential is subsequently used to make further requests to a second node of a second storage instance of the distributed system where the secret session key is independently derived using information in the request and the previously shared first account private key to verify the signature in the request.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for providing, via a provisioning engine, a scalable set of indexed key-value pairs enabled to store objects in a data storage environment; wherein the data representing the objects is enabled to be spread across arrays in the data storage environment; wherein additional arrays are enabled to be added to the data storage environment and included in the indexed key-value pairs; wherein the data stored across the arrays may be balanced.

Abstract: A computer implemented method, system, and computer program product for enabling strong consistency of unique objects between zones comprising enabling consistency of an unique data object between in zones by switching between consistency techniques to keep the unique data object consistent between the zones; wherein read and write access is enabled to the unique object in the zones.

Abstract: A computer implemented method, system, and computer program product for enabling consistency between zones comprising creating a lease agreement between a first zone and at least a second zone; wherein the lease indicates that the first zone is the owner of an object; wherein the lease agreement dictates that a notification is to be sent before a cached object in the first zone is updated if the lease is still valid; wherein the lease indicates the first zone is to send a heartbeat to the second zone within the predetermined period of time if the object has not been changed and the lease is still valid; and setting up heartbeats from the first zone to at least a second zone within a predetermined amount of time; wherein the heartbeat indicates that the lease is still valid and the object has not been changed.