# Tigris Data

> Tigris Data is an independent, globally distributed object-storage company built by three former members of Uber's storage team. Its service speaks the familiar S3 API, automatically places data near the people or compute reading it, and charges no egress fees. That makes it particularly relevant to AI companies whose training and inference jobs move among clouds and GPU providers. Tigris says it now handles more than 1 billion requests a day, 20 PB of storage, 10 billion objects and 400,000 buckets.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** Sunnyvale, United States
- **Founders:** Ovais Tariq (Co-Founder & CEO), Himank Chaudhary (Co-Founder & CTO), Yevgeniy Firsov (Co-Founder & Chief Architect)
- **Products:** Tigris Developer Data Platform, Tigris Object Storage, Shadow Buckets, Storage Tiers and Lifecycle Rules, Forks, Snapshots and Soft Delete
- **Notable:** Built and operates an independent object-storage network on its own hardware, rather than reselling a hyperscaler's storage., Reports more than 1 billion requests per day, 20 PB stored, 10 billion objects and 400,000 buckets., fal.ai reports an 85% reduction in object-storage costs and more than 100 TB stored on Tigris.

## Products & services

- **Tigris Developer Data Platform** — The original serverless, open-source product combined a transactional document store, search and planned event streaming behind a unified API.
- **Tigris Object Storage** — Globally distributed S3-compatible storage with dynamic data placement, global, multi-region, dual-region or single-region buckets, strong consistency options and no egress fees.
- **Shadow Buckets** — A migration mechanism that copies objects from an existing S3-compatible store on first read and mirrors writes back, allowing a gradual cutover.
- **Storage Tiers and Lifecycle Rules** — Standard, infrequent-access and archive tiers with policy-driven transitions and prices from $0.004 to $0.02 per GB-month.
- **Forks, Snapshots and Soft Delete** — Copy-on-write bucket forks, point-in-time snapshots and recoverable deletes aimed at reproducible AI experiments and safer agent workflows.
- **Tigris Acceleration Gateway** — An open-source S3-compatible caching proxy that runs beside training jobs and serves warm data from local NVMe storage.

## Achievements

- Built and operates an independent object-storage network on its own hardware, rather than reselling a hyperscaler's storage.
- Reports more than 1 billion requests per day, 20 PB stored, 10 billion objects and 400,000 buckets.
- fal.ai reports an 85% reduction in object-storage costs and more than 100 TB stored on Tigris.
- Raised a $25 million Series A led by Spark Capital in October 2025.
- Published raw production availability metrics and designed regional metadata failover after those metrics exposed failed writes.
- Offers SOC 2 Type II compliance and a HIPAA business associate agreement.
- Created open-source TigrisFS, an S3-compatible FUSE filesystem, and TAG, a local acceleration gateway for AI training.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Tigris listed bucket forks, snapshots, soft delete, object events and shadow-bucket migration alongside its S3-compatible storage, with pricing benchmarked as of September 20, 2026.
- **2026-09** — The company reported more than 1 billion daily requests, 400,000 buckets, 20 PB of storage and 10 billion objects.
- **2026** — Tigris introduced the open-source Tigris Acceleration Gateway, a local NVMe caching layer for AI training jobs.
- **2026** — Tigris joined the Agentic AI Foundation as a Silver member and expanded tooling for agents, including an MCP server, agent skills and bucket-per-agent patterns.
- **2025-10** — Tigris raised a $25 million Series A led by Spark Capital to expand its storage network in the United States, Europe and Asia.

## Links

- Website: https://www.tigrisdata.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tigrisdata
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/tigrisdata
- GitHub: https://github.com/tigrisdata
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/tigrisdata.com

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Last updated: 2026-09-28