# Console Function Overview

Table 1 lists functions provided by OBS Console.

Table 1 OBS Console functions
Function | Description
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Basic bucket operations | Allow you to create and delete buckets of different storage classes in specified regions (service areas), as well as change bucket storage classes.
Basic object operations | Allow you to manage objects, including uploading, multipart uploading, downloading, changing object storage classes, restoring archived objects, and deleting.
Server-side encryption | Encrypts data on servers to enhance security of data stored on OBS.
Object metadata | Allows you to set properties for objects.
Auditing | With Cloud Trace Service (CTS), you can record data operations associated with OBS for later query, audit, and backtrack operations.
Fragment management | Manages and clears fragments generated due to object upload failures.
Versioning | Stores multiple versions of an object in the same bucket.
Logging | Logs bucket access requests for analysis and auditing.
Event notification | Allows you to receive messages and emails from OBS.
Permission control | Controls OBS access permissions through IAM policies, bucket/object policies, and bucket/object access control lists (ACLs).
Lifecycle management | Allows you to configure lifecycle rules to periodically expire and delete objects or transition objects between storage classes.
Tags | Identifies and classifies buckets in OBS.
Static website hosting | Supports the hosting of static website content in buckets, and supports redirection of bucket access requests to specific hosts.
User-defined domain name binding | Binds your website domain names to bucket domain names. This function applies to the following scenario: migrating files from a website to OBS without modifying the code of the web page, and keeping the link of the website unchanged.
URL validation | Provides URL validation to prevent object links of OBS from being stolen by other websites.
Cross origin resource sharing (CORS) | Allows a web client in one origin to interact with resources in another one. CORS is a browser-standard mechanism defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). For general web page requests, website scripts and contents in one origin cannot interact with those in another origin because of Same Origin Policies (SOPs).

Parent topic: OBS Console Operation Guide