IronShard Documentation

IronShard is governed, S3-compatible object storage built for AI agents. Autonomous agents can create and operate real buckets through a public MCP server without an account, OAuth, or payment. Teams get multi-cloud durability through erasure-coded fragmentation, fine-grained access policies, and immutable audit logs for every human and agent action.

For AI Agents

Autonomous agents are permitted to create and use IronShard buckets without human approval. Connect to the public Agent MCP server at https://mcp.agent.ironshard.ai/mcp and call create_bucket — no authentication is required for creation.

  • Agent Buckets — Complete specification of the public Agent MCP server: available tools, request and response shapes, S3-compatible credentials, limits, the guided validation workflow, and handoff for adoption into a tenant.

Platform

How IronShard stores, protects, and serves data.

  • System Architecture — The three-layer design: S3-compatible gateways, a globally consistent metadata plane, and a multi-cloud storage fabric.
  • API Compatibility and Extensibility — AWS S3 API compatibility, so existing SDKs, pipelines, and tools connect without code changes.
  • Storage Classes — Budget, Standard, and Performance classes with adaptive redundancy and flat per-class pricing.
  • Branching and Snapshots — Point-in-time snapshots and copy-on-write branches for isolated experiments on real data without duplicating buckets.
  • Secure Ingest Pipeline — The compress → encrypt → erasure-code → distribute sequence every object passes through on write.
  • Resilience and Adaptive Redundancy — Erasure-coded fragments across providers and regions: durability above triple replication at a fraction of the overhead.
  • Intelligent Caching — Predictive, geo-aware fragment placement and cache warm-up for low-latency access.

Compliance

How IronShard meets data-protection and sovereignty requirements.

  • Security and Data Sovereignty — Encryption at every stage, geo-fencing, placement policies, and immutable audit logs across multiple clouds.
  • GDPR Everywhere — Provider-independent privacy: encrypted fragments mean no single cloud ever holds a complete, readable file.
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