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Administration Glossary

Term Meaning in Administration
Storage endpoint A configured S3-compatible backend and its capabilities.
S3 account Platform-level storage account used for account administration, usage, quotas, and related workflows.
S3 connection Credential-backed S3 context used for generic compatibility when BucketReef cannot manage the remote identity as a native RGW Account or RGW User. Admin S3 connections can be assigned to UI users and groups; private connections belong to individual users.
Ceph Admin Administrative Ceph RGW workspace for cluster-level account, user, bucket, and metrics workflows.
Storage Ops Administrative workspace for operations across authorized storage contexts.
Admin Ops credentials Dedicated endpoint credentials used for explicitly authorized administrative Ceph/RGW workflows.
Effective access The access resulting from user, group, account, context, and feature assignments after BucketReef combines them.
Feature setting Platform configuration that enables or constrains a workspace or feature.
Endpoint capability A storage feature supported or configured for an endpoint, such as IAM, SNS, metrics, usage, or versioning.
Application audit BucketReef control-plane, security, configuration, and workflow-control events. Object data-plane requests are excluded.
S3 access logs Provider-side records for object requests when that backend and project have access logging enabled.
UI Tags BucketReef metadata for organizing administrative bucket sets. They do not modify S3 object or bucket tags.