[spullara]

It probably wouldn't have worked out that way if Google didnt clone S3's API.

[weavejester]

To be fair to Google, most of the S3 REST API is pretty obvious. Even if you'd never seen S3, you'd likely come up with an API that was 80% similar.

[samuel1604]

not the openstack storage api..

[weavejester]

What do you mean? I haven't looked into Openstack in great deal, but my impression of the storage API was that it was very similar to S3, aside from how it handles authentication.

[joeyh]

Cloned but with some required new fields like "x-goog-api-version", so existing S3 libraries won't quite work without modification, it seems.