OBJECT STORE DATA MANAGEMENT CONTAINER WITH INTEGRATED SNAPSHOT DIFFERENCE INTERFACE FOR CATALOGING SNAPSHOTS WHILE RESIDENT IN OBJECT STORE

Techniques are provided for a snapshot difference interface integrated into an object store data management container. The snapshot difference interface is capable of interpreting an object format and snapshot file system format of snapshots backed up to an object store within objects formatted according to the object format. The snapshot difference interface can identify differences between snapshots, such as files that changed between the snapshots, while the snapshots are still resident within the object store. Because the snapshot difference interface does not retrieve the snapshots from the object store, security is improved, resource and network consumption is reduced, there is less of an impact upon client I/O processing, and a catalog of the snapshots can be more efficiently built and recovered in the event of corruption.