Ozone Events

Past Meetups​

November 20, 2025​

Another Ozone meetup was held on November 20, 2025. Meetup link YouTube recording

The following was the list of agenda:

• Apache Ozone Adoption Growth - Shiv Moorthy: Insights into Ozone’s growing adoption and impact.
• Apache Ozone Best Practices at Shopee - Yiyang Zhou: Learn how Shopee manages billions of objects in Ozone production environments with lifecycle and storage class optimization.
• Event Notifications for Distributed Storage (Ozone) - Paul Scott-Murphy: Exploring design choices, optimizations, and downstream use cases for event-driven storage systems.
• AWS STS Design for Ozone S3 - Fabian Morgan & Madhan Neethiraj: Learn how Ozone’s STS design enables scalable and secure data sharing.
• GenAI: S3Vector Buckets API Support in Ozone - Swaminathan Balachandran & Saketa Chandra Chalamchala: Discover how Ozone delivers fast vector-store backend capabilities with S3Vector compatibility.
• Apache Ozone State of the Union - Rishabh Patel & Sammi Chen: Highlights of new features, releases, and roadmap updates.

October 24, 2024​

An Ozone meetup was held on October 24, 2024. Meetup link YouTube recording

The following was the list of agenda:

• Ozone + GenAI Applications - Swaminathan Balachandran (Cloudera): In this talk, we will explore how GenAI applications can be beneficial with the Apache Ozone's unique potential in object storage space.
• Simplifying Orchestration of GenAI Applications Across Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Environments - Selvi Kadirvel (Elotl): Running Gen-AI applications at scale is operationally complex - it requires the management of application workloads; infrastructure services, data pipelines and datasets across a multi-cluster, multi-cloud environment.
• Scaling Multi-GPU Multi-Node Deployments with Triton Inference Server - Ryan McCormick (Nvidia): NVIDIA Triton Inference Server is an open-source inference serving solution that simplifies the production deployment of AI models at scale.
• Ozone CSI Primer - Prashant Pogde (Cloudera): This talk covers how Apache Ozone would be an option for read-write-many semantic persistent volume claims in Kubernetes environments.
• Ozone Performance and Scale - Ritesh Shukla & Duong Nguyen (Cloudera): Architectural benefits of Ozone for scale and performance over other S3/HDFS Object Stores.

October 25, 2023​

An Ozone meetup was held on October 25, 2023. Meetup link YouTube recording

The following was the list of agenda:

• Apache Ozone User adoptions - Shiv Moorthy, Cloudera
• Apache Ozone State of the Union - Aswin Shakil Balasubramanian, Cloudera
• Optimizing HDFS with Datanode Local Cache for High-Density HDD Adoption - Fengnan Li, Jing Zhao from Uber
• Snapshots new innovations - Swaminathan Balachandran, Dave Teng from Cloudera
• Apache Iceberg on Ozone - Vince Kulandaisamy, Prashant Pogde from Cloudera

Nov 10, 2022​

The first ever Apache Ozone User Group Summit was held at Cloudera's headquarter on Nov 10, 2022. This event was live streamed on LinkedIn and on YouTube. Meetup link YouTube recording Slide deck

The following was the list of agenda:

• Opening, Karthik Krishnamoorthy Recording
• Apache Ozone - Scalable, redundant distributed object store Recording
• Bucket types and FSO improvements, Ethan Rose Recording
• Apache Ozone snapshots - new design, Prashant Pogde, Siyao Meng Recording
• Apache Ozone Performance, Ritesh Shukla, Recording

Feb 20, 2019​

A Hadoop community meetup was held on January 30, 2019. YouTube recording Slide deck

• Overview of Ozone - Anu Engineer

Past Conference Talks​

External Blog Posts​

• October 2018 - Apache Hadoop Ozone – Object Store Architecture
• October 2018 - Apache Hadoop Ozone – Object Store Overview
• October 2018 - Introducing Apache Hadoop Ozone: An Object Store for Apache Hadoop
• October 2021 - Apache Ozone – A High Performance Object Store for Private Cloud