Agentic AI Reference Architecture

Infrastructure · Data store

Object Store

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A durable, network-accessible blob store for files such as uploaded documents, workflow checkpoints, archived events and deployment artifacts, emitting notifications when objects arrive.

Responsibility. Durably stores unstructured objects for agents and pipelines.

Also known as: Blob storage, Bucket storage, Object storage, Blob store, Cloud object storage, Backup storage

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Classification

Patterns
Storage-event notificationState externalization
Technologies
Amazon S3Azure Blob StorageMinIO
Quality attributes
Reliability (ISO/IEC 25010 | NIST AI RMF: valid and reliable)Performance efficiency (ISO/IEC 25010)
Risks mitigated
Loss of events, checkpoints or artifactsLoss of intermediate work on replica failureSession affinity requirement

Sources

  1. Ch4.2: T. Nguyen, "Deployment and Scaling," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 4.2. ISBN: 9798244538229.
  2. Ch4.7: T. Nguyen, "Scaling Strategies," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 4.7. ISBN: 9798244538229.
  3. Ch6.2A: T. Nguyen, "Vector Database Selection," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 6.2A. ISBN: 9798244538229.
  4. Ch6.3A: T. Nguyen, "ETL Pipeline Fundamentals," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 6.3A. ISBN: 9798244538229.
  5. Ch6.5: T. Nguyen, "Production RAG Systems," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 6.5. ISBN: 9798244538229.