Welcome to the 3DS OUTSCALE public documentation.

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What's New?


December 31, 2019

  • FEATURE Added a new service: OKMS

Outscale Key Management Service (OKMS), your new key management service, is now available in your Cockpit interface!    

OKMS allows you to create, manage, and control your encryption keys. 

For more information: About Outscale Key Management Service (OKMS)

January 13, 2020 (eu-west-2) / January 6, 2020 (us-west-1) / January 7, 2020 (us-east-2) / January 6, 2020 (cn-southeast-1)

  • This release includes stability and error message improvements.


November 25, 2019 (eu-west-2) / November 18, 2019 (us-west-1) / November 19, 2019 (us-east-2) / November 18, 2019 (cn-southeast-1)

  • Elastic Identity Management (EIM) policies now support the DirectLink and OKMS services.


October 28, 2019 (eu-west-2) / October 23, 2019 (us-west-1) / October 23, 2019 (us-east-2) / October 21, 2019 (cn-southeast-1)


Available Guides


Provides detailed information about our products and features and how to use them.

This guide explains all the concepts and provides all the information you need to know to use our products. You can find information about how to use the 3DS OUTSCALE Cloud with our web interface Cockpit, and AWS CLI. For each feature, a link to the corresponding API method documentation is also provided.

For more information about the features available from Cockpit and how to access it, see About Cockpit. For more information about how to install and configure AWS CLI for the 3DS OUTSCALE Cloud, see Installing and Configuring AWS CLI.

English only

Provides documentation for each 3DS OUTSCALE API, and an AWS compatibility matrix.

To directly access the AWS-compliant API documentation, click the following link: http://docs.outscale.com/

To directly access the 3DS OUTSCALE API documentation, click the following link: http://docs-beta.outscale.com/

English only

Provides technical information to advanced users.

This guide contains best practices, documentation about advanced tools to use the Cloud and third-party software that you may need for some use cases, and procedures and tips about how to get the most of our Cloud.