Providing Application-Side Infrastructure To Control Cross-Region Replicated Object Stores

An apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of:

• determining, for an object store replicated across a plurality of storage systems at a plurality of locations, a minimum time interval between requests to modify the object store that are received by differing storage systems of the plurality of storage systems that ensures a predictable result on all storage systems among which those modifications are replicated;
• and
• providing, through an application programming interface (API) to a client that utilizes the object store, one or more object store parameters including the minimum time interval.

A computer program product disposed upon a computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to carry out the steps of:

• determining, for an object store replicated across a plurality of storage systems at a plurality of locations, a minimum time interval between requests to modify the object store that are received by differing storage systems of the plurality of storage systems that ensures a predictable result on all storage systems among which those modifications are replicated;
• and
• providing, through an application programming interface (API) to a client that utilizes the object store, one or more object store parameters including the minimum time interval.