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title: Buckets
description: Create and manage R2 buckets for storing objects with flat-structure organization.
image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dev-products-preview.png
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# Buckets

With object storage, all of your objects are stored in buckets. Buckets do not contain folders that group the individual files, but instead, buckets have a flat structure which simplifies the way you access and retrieve the objects in your bucket.

Learn more about bucket level operations from the items below.

* [ Bucket locks ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/buckets/bucket-locks/)
* [ Create new buckets ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/buckets/create-buckets/)
* [ Public buckets ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/buckets/public-buckets/)
* [ Configure CORS ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/buckets/cors/)
* [ Delete buckets ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/buckets/delete-buckets/)
* [ Event notifications ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/buckets/event-notifications/)
* [ Local uploads ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/buckets/local-uploads/)
* [ Object lifecycles ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/buckets/object-lifecycles/)
* [ Storage classes ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/buckets/storage-classes/)

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