IronShard Documentation

IronShard is governed, S3-compatible object storage built for AI agents. Every bucket gets multi-cloud durability through erasure-coded fragmentation. Copy-on-write branches of production, per-agent access policies, and immutable audit logs are in development.

Get Started

Human accounts start in the web console. Connect your agent (Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or any other) to the MCP server at https://mcp.ironshard.ai/mcp, or create S3 credentials in the console and follow the quickstart.

  • Connect Claude over MCP: Add IronShard to Claude Desktop as a custom connector, authorize it with OAuth, and choose which buckets Claude can read and write.
  • Get Started with the S3 API: From nothing to a stored object with the AWS CLI, boto3, or the JavaScript SDK: endpoint, profile settings, bucket creation and usage.

Autonomous agents can create and use sandbox IronShard buckets without human in the loop. Point the agent to https://agents-mcp.ironshard.ai/mcp and have it invoke the create_bucket tool. No account or authentication required, the bucket lives for 7 days.

  • Agent Buckets: Complete specification of the autonomous agent MCP server: available (and in-development) tools, request and response shapes, limits, 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.
  • Secure Ingest Pipeline: The compress, encrypt, erasure-code, distribute sequence every object passes through on write.
  • Erasure Coding and Distribution: How objects become redundant fragments across providers and regions, the storage footprint against replication, and geo-fencing.
  • Adaptive Storage Representation: Fragment redundancy and placement, as well as gateway cache allows data layout to fluidly follow demand.

Features

  • Branching and Snapshots: Point-in-time snapshots and copy-on-write branches for isolated experiments on real data without duplicating buckets.

Compliance

How IronShard meets data-protection and sovereignty requirements.

  • GDPR Everywhere: IronShard is GDPR compliant as a whole service, with provider-independent privacy: encrypted fragments mean no single provider ever holds a complete, readable file.
  • Compliance Controls: The storage-layer controls behind IronShard's compliance posture, what is available today, and how they map to GDPR, the EU AI Act, and sector frameworks.
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