A large shopping mall deploys a new video surveillance system.

A large shopping mall deploys a new video surveillance system. The five-floor building in which the mall is located installed 35 HD cameras to monitor the major exits. The surveillance system is deployed on an ECS instance, which has four 2 TB data disks to store video data.

However, video data grows rapidly and the engineers find that the ECS will run out of storage space within 2 weeks.

In this case, OSS is thought to be the best solution for addressing the storage challenge while ensuring quick access to historical video data when needed. OSS is a cloud-based object storage service that provides massive, secure, low-cost, and highly reliable storage for unstructured data such as images, videos, and documents. OSS can store any amount of data and scale up or down on demand. OSS also supports direct video stream storage capabilities, removing the need for a video segmentation cluster. OSS can be accessed through RESTful APIs, SDKs, or web consoles, and can be integrated with other Alibaba Cloud services such as CDN, ECS, and SLB. OSS provides various storage classes for different data storage scenarios, from hot data storage to cold data storage. For video surveillance data, the Infrequent Access (IA) or Archive storage classes can be used to reduce the storage cost while maintaining high data durability and availability123. References: 1: Alibaba Cloud Multimedia Solutions | Video Monitoring & Surveillance1 2: Overview - Object Storage Service - Alibaba Cloud2 3: OSS Concepts - Alibaba Object Storage Service Course - Cloud Academy