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Puhti and Mahti computing services have been decommissioned. Puhti and Mahti login nodes and storage services will remain available until 15 October 2026, but are no longer covered by service contracts. Please clean up and migrate your data to Roihu ASAP. See Roihu data migration guide for instructions.

Is it possible to make data in Allas read-only?

Inside a project

Inside a project there is currently no read-only mode in Allas. Each project member has full access to the data, which causes a risk: any project member can accidentally overwrite or delete data.

Between projects

You can give another project read-only access to your bucket using Swift or S3cmd.

Sharing URL

In addition, it is possible to make a bucket public, which makes the content available for viewing ("read-only") via URLs. The URL to an object in a public bucket is of the form https://<bucket_name>.a3s.fi/<object_name> or https://a3s.fi/swift/v1/AUTH_<project_id>/<bucket_name>/<object_name> where <project_id> is the identifier of your computing project in UUID format.

Additional guidance for making buckets public