The replication design for multiple sites works in a similar manner as described above for two site scenario. However there are some
important exceptions.

Replication status on the source cluster will be marked as `COMPLETED` only after replication is completed on all targets. If one or more targets failed replication, the replication status is reflected as `PENDING`.

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Input for the key is the object name specified in `PutObject()`, returns a unique index. This index is one of the erasure sets where the object will reside. This function is a consistent hash for a given object name i.e for a given object name the index returned is always the same.