HCP for cloud scale is a software-only data storage platform that rests on top of physical or cloud-based data storage systems, such as Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS). HCP for cloud scale acts as a common interface between the storage systems that manages all storage objects, including buckets, objects, and metadata. HCP for cloud scale can scale to accommodate for any number of storage systems, and its data storage limitations are defined only by its underlying technologies.