You can use ECS extensions to the S3 protocol to read multiple byte ranges within an object.
Reading multiple parts of an object can be very useful in many cases. For example, to get several video parts. On Amazon or other S3 compatible platforms, it is necessary to send a different request for each part.
To read two specific byte ranges within the object that is named
object1, you issue the following GET request for
Range: bytes==4-8,41-44. The read response is words
quick and
lazy.