You can use the Block Storage service (cinder) to create volume types, which aggregate volume settings. You can associate volume types with encryption and Quality of Service (QoS) specifications to provide different levels of performance for your cloud users. Your cloud users can specify the volume type they require when creating new volumes. For example, volumes that use higher performance QoS specifications could provide your users with more IOPS, or your users could assign lighter workloads to volumes that use lower performance QoS specifications to conserve resources. One or more instances, bare-metal nodes, or containers can consume shares simultaneously. The Shared File Systems service (manila) also supports share resize, snapshots and cloning, and administrators can create share types to aggregate settings.

Users can access objects in a container by using the Object Storage service (swift) API, and administrators can make objects accessible to instances and services in the cloud. This accessibility makes objects ideal as repositories for services; for example, you can store Image service (glance) images in containers that are managed by the Object Storage service.