diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 483d1b0bc3..a738554d3f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -85,19 +85,21 @@ Example (Qpid):
 
 # Swift
 
-Swift is not installed by default, you can enable easily by adding this to your `localrc`:
+Swift is enabled by default configured with only one replica to avoid being IO/memory intensive on a small vm. When running with only one replica the account, container and object services will run directly in screen. The others services like replicator, updaters or auditor runs in background.
 
-    enable_service swift
+If you would like to disable Swift you can add this to your `localrc` :
+
+    disable_service s-proxy s-object s-container s-account
 
 If you want a minimal Swift install with only Swift and Keystone you can have this instead in your `localrc`:
 
     disable_all_services
-    enable_service key mysql swift
+    enable_service key mysql s-proxy s-object s-container s-account
 
-If you use Swift with Keystone, Swift will authenticate against it. You will need to make sure to use the Keystone URL to auth against.
+If you only want to do some testing of a real normal swift cluster with multiple replicas you can do so by customizing the variable `SWIFT_REPLICAS` in your `localrc` (usually to 3).
+
+# Swift S3
 
 If you are enabling `swift3` in `ENABLED_SERVICES` devstack will install the swift3 middleware emulation. Swift will be configured to act as a S3 endpoint for Keystone so effectively replacing the `nova-objectstore`.
 
 Only Swift proxy server is launched in the screen session all other services are started in background and managed by `swift-init` tool.
-
-By default Swift will configure 3 replicas (and one spare) which could be IO intensive on a small vm, if you only want to do some quick testing of the API you can choose to only have one replica by customizing the variable `SWIFT_REPLICAS` in your `localrc`.
diff --git a/exercises/client-args.sh b/exercises/client-args.sh
index 894da74263..1e92500701 100755
--- a/exercises/client-args.sh
+++ b/exercises/client-args.sh
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ fi
 # Swift client
 # ------------
 
-if [[ "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "swift" ]]; then
+if [[ "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "swift" || "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "s-proxy" ]]; then
     if [[ "$SKIP_EXERCISES" =~ "swift" ]] ; then
         STATUS_SWIFT="Skipped"
     else
diff --git a/exercises/client-env.sh b/exercises/client-env.sh
index c84e84e55b..dd8e56e22f 100755
--- a/exercises/client-env.sh
+++ b/exercises/client-env.sh
@@ -144,7 +144,8 @@ fi
 # Swift client
 # ------------
 
-if [[ "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "swift" ]]; then
+
+if [[ "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "swift" || "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "s-proxy" ]]; then
     if [[ "$SKIP_EXERCISES" =~ "swift" ]] ; then
         STATUS_SWIFT="Skipped"
     else
diff --git a/exercises/swift.sh b/exercises/swift.sh
index 46ac2c5c06..c4ec3e9095 100755
--- a/exercises/swift.sh
+++ b/exercises/swift.sh
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ source $TOP_DIR/exerciserc
 
 # If swift is not enabled we exit with exitcode 55 which mean
 # exercise is skipped.
-is_service_enabled swift || exit 55
+is_service_enabled s-proxy || exit 55
 
 # Container name
 CONTAINER=ex-swift
diff --git a/files/keystone_data.sh b/files/keystone_data.sh
index a6fab09926..72b5b1e9c8 100755
--- a/files/keystone_data.sh
+++ b/files/keystone_data.sh
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ RESELLER_ROLE=$(get_id keystone role-create --name=ResellerAdmin)
 # Services
 # --------
 
-if [[ "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "n-api" ]] && [[ "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "swift" ]]; then
+if [[ "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "n-api" ]] && [[ "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "s-proxy" || "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "swift" ]]; then
     NOVA_USER=$(keystone user-list | awk "/ nova / { print \$2 }")
     # Nova needs ResellerAdmin role to download images when accessing
     # swift through the s3 api.
@@ -123,7 +123,8 @@ if [[ "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "g-api" ]]; then
 fi
 
 # Swift
-if [[ "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "swift" ]]; then
+
+if [[ "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "swift" || "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "s-proxy" ]]; then
     SWIFT_USER=$(get_id keystone user-create \
         --name=swift \
         --pass="$SERVICE_PASSWORD" \
@@ -190,7 +191,7 @@ if [[ "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "n-api" ]]; then
 fi
 
 # S3
-if [[ "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "n-obj" || "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "swift" ]]; then
+if [[ "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "n-obj" || "$ENABLED_SERVICES" =~ "swift3" ]]; then
     if [[ "$KEYSTONE_CATALOG_BACKEND" = 'sql' ]]; then
         S3_SERVICE=$(get_id keystone service-create \
             --name=s3 \
diff --git a/functions b/functions
index f5afc3f834..220da9d3af 100644
--- a/functions
+++ b/functions
@@ -212,6 +212,10 @@ function get_packages() {
             if [[ ! $file_to_parse =~ ceilometer ]]; then
                 file_to_parse="${file_to_parse} ceilometer"
             fi
+        elif [[ $service == s-* ]]; then
+            if [[ ! $file_to_parse =~ swift ]]; then
+                file_to_parse="${file_to_parse} swift"
+            fi
         elif [[ $service == n-* ]]; then
             if [[ ! $file_to_parse =~ nova ]]; then
                 file_to_parse="${file_to_parse} nova"
@@ -649,6 +653,9 @@ function iniadd() {
 #   **ceilometer** returns true if any service enabled start with **ceilometer**
 #   **glance** returns true if any service enabled start with **g-**
 #   **quantum** returns true if any service enabled start with **q-**
+#   **swift** returns true if any service enabled start with **s-**
+#   For backward compatibility if we have **swift** in ENABLED_SERVICES all the
+#   **s-** services will be enabled. This will be deprecated in the future.
 #
 # Uses global ``ENABLED_SERVICES``
 # is_service_enabled service [service ...]
@@ -661,6 +668,8 @@ function is_service_enabled() {
         [[ ${service} == "ceilometer" && ${ENABLED_SERVICES} =~ "ceilometer-" ]] && return 0
         [[ ${service} == "glance" && ${ENABLED_SERVICES} =~ "g-" ]] && return 0
         [[ ${service} == "quantum" && ${ENABLED_SERVICES} =~ "q-" ]] && return 0
+        [[ ${service} == "swift" && ${ENABLED_SERVICES} =~ "s-" ]] && return 0
+        [[ ${service} == s-* && ${ENABLED_SERVICES} =~ "swift" ]] && return 0
     done
     return 1
 }
diff --git a/lib/keystone b/lib/keystone
index 26c0277dc0..17e0866fec 100644
--- a/lib/keystone
+++ b/lib/keystone
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ function configure_keystone() {
         cp -p $FILES/default_catalog.templates $KEYSTONE_CATALOG
 
         # Add swift endpoints to service catalog if swift is enabled
-        if is_service_enabled swift; then
+        if is_service_enabled s-proxy; then
             echo "catalog.RegionOne.object_store.publicURL = http://%SERVICE_HOST%:8080/v1/AUTH_\$(tenant_id)s" >> $KEYSTONE_CATALOG
             echo "catalog.RegionOne.object_store.adminURL = http://%SERVICE_HOST%:8080/" >> $KEYSTONE_CATALOG
             echo "catalog.RegionOne.object_store.internalURL = http://%SERVICE_HOST%:8080/v1/AUTH_\$(tenant_id)s" >> $KEYSTONE_CATALOG
diff --git a/lib/swift b/lib/swift
index 2f772fb64c..5c4ceabb4a 100644
--- a/lib/swift
+++ b/lib/swift
@@ -56,17 +56,18 @@ SWIFT_LOOPBACK_DISK_SIZE=${SWIFT_LOOPBACK_DISK_SIZE:-1000000}
 SWIFT_PARTITION_POWER_SIZE=${SWIFT_PARTITION_POWER_SIZE:-9}
 
 # Set ``SWIFT_REPLICAS`` to configure how many replicas are to be
-# configured for your Swift cluster.  By default the three replicas would need a
-# bit of IO and Memory on a VM you may want to lower that to 1 if you want to do
-# only some quick testing.
-SWIFT_REPLICAS=${SWIFT_REPLICAS:-3}
+# configured for your Swift cluster. By default we are configuring
+# only one replica since this is way less CPU and memory intensive. If
+# you are planning to test swift replication you may want to set this
+# up to 3.
+SWIFT_REPLICAS=${SWIFT_REPLICAS:-1}
 SWIFT_REPLICAS_SEQ=$(seq ${SWIFT_REPLICAS})
 
 # Set ``OBJECT_PORT_BASE``, ``CONTAINER_PORT_BASE``, ``ACCOUNT_PORT_BASE``
 # Port bases used in port number calclution for the service "nodes"
 # The specified port number will be used, the additinal ports calculated by
 # base_port + node_num * 10
-OBJECT_PORT_BASE=6010
+OBJECT_PORT_BASE=6013
 CONTAINER_PORT_BASE=6011
 ACCOUNT_PORT_BASE=6012
 
@@ -362,19 +363,34 @@ function start_swift() {
         sudo systemctl start xinetd.service
     fi
 
-   # First spawn all the swift services then kill the
-   # proxy service so we can run it in foreground in screen.
-   # ``swift-init ... {stop|restart}`` exits with '1' if no servers are running,
-   # ignore it just in case
+   # By default with only one replica we are launching the proxy,
+   # container, account and object server in screen in foreground and
+   # other services in background. If we have SWIFT_REPLICAS set to something
+   # greater than one we first spawn all the swift services then kill the proxy
+   # service so we can run it in foreground in screen.  ``swift-init ...
+   # {stop|restart}`` exits with '1' if no servers are running, ignore it just
+   # in case
    swift-init --run-dir=${SWIFT_DATA_DIR}/run all restart || true
-   swift-init --run-dir=${SWIFT_DATA_DIR}/run proxy stop || true
-   screen_it swift "cd $SWIFT_DIR && $SWIFT_DIR/bin/swift-proxy-server ${SWIFT_CONFIG_DIR}/proxy-server.conf -v"
+   if [[ ${SWIFT_REPLICAS} == 1 ]];then
+        todo="object container account"
+   fi
+   for type in proxy ${todo};do
+       swift-init --run-dir=${SWIFT_DATA_DIR}/run ${type} stop || true
+   done
+   screen_it s-proxy "cd $SWIFT_DIR && $SWIFT_DIR/bin/swift-proxy-server ${SWIFT_CONFIG_DIR}/proxy-server.conf -v"
+   if [[ ${SWIFT_REPLICAS} == 1 ]];then
+       for type in object container account;do
+           screen_it s-${type} "cd $SWIFT_DIR && $SWIFT_DIR/bin/swift-${type}-server ${SWIFT_CONFIG_DIR}/${type}-server/1.conf -v"
+       done
+   fi
 }
 
 # stop_swift() - Stop running processes (non-screen)
 function stop_swift() {
     # screen normally killed by unstack.sh
-    swift-init --run-dir=${SWIFT_DATA_DIR}/run all stop || true
+    if type -p swift-init >/dev/null;then
+        swift-init --run-dir=${SWIFT_DATA_DIR}/run all stop || true
+    fi
 }
 
 # Restore xtrace
diff --git a/stack.sh b/stack.sh
index 238c9e1d6b..7b4b3b778c 100755
--- a/stack.sh
+++ b/stack.sh
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ if is_service_enabled rabbit; then
     read_password RABBIT_PASSWORD "ENTER A PASSWORD TO USE FOR RABBIT."
 fi
 
-if is_service_enabled swift; then
+if is_service_enabled s-proxy; then
     # If we are using swift3, we can default the s3 port to swift instead
     # of nova-objectstore
     if is_service_enabled swift3;then
@@ -644,12 +644,12 @@ install_novaclient
 git_clone $OPENSTACKCLIENT_REPO $OPENSTACKCLIENT_DIR $OPENSTACKCLIENT_BRANCH
 
 # glance, swift middleware and nova api needs keystone middleware
-if is_service_enabled key g-api n-api swift; then
+if is_service_enabled key g-api n-api s-proxy; then
     # unified auth system (manages accounts/tokens)
     install_keystone
 fi
 
-if is_service_enabled swift; then
+if is_service_enabled s-proxy; then
     install_swiftclient
     install_swift
     if is_service_enabled swift3; then
@@ -706,10 +706,10 @@ echo_summary "Configuring OpenStack projects"
 configure_keystoneclient
 configure_novaclient
 setup_develop $OPENSTACKCLIENT_DIR
-if is_service_enabled key g-api n-api swift; then
+if is_service_enabled key g-api n-api s-proxy; then
     configure_keystone
 fi
-if is_service_enabled swift; then
+if is_service_enabled s-proxy; then
     configure_swift
     configure_swiftclient
     if is_service_enabled swift3; then
@@ -893,7 +893,7 @@ if is_service_enabled g-reg; then
     init_glance
 
     # Store the images in swift if enabled.
-    if is_service_enabled swift; then
+    if is_service_enabled s-proxy; then
         iniset $GLANCE_API_CONF DEFAULT default_store swift
         iniset $GLANCE_API_CONF DEFAULT swift_store_auth_address $KEYSTONE_SERVICE_PROTOCOL://$KEYSTONE_SERVICE_HOST:$KEYSTONE_SERVICE_PORT/v2.0/
         iniset $GLANCE_API_CONF DEFAULT swift_store_user $SERVICE_TENANT_NAME:glance
@@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ fi
 # Storage Service
 # ---------------
 
-if is_service_enabled swift; then
+if is_service_enabled s-proxy; then
     echo_summary "Configuring Swift"
     init_swift
 fi
@@ -1098,7 +1098,7 @@ fi
 # Only run the services specified in ``ENABLED_SERVICES``
 
 # Launch Swift Services
-if is_service_enabled swift; then
+if is_service_enabled s-proxy; then
     echo_summary "Starting Swift"
     start_swift
 fi
diff --git a/stackrc b/stackrc
index d418a0ec5a..6b1550473a 100644
--- a/stackrc
+++ b/stackrc
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ fi
 # ``disable_service`` functions in ``localrc``.
 # For example, to enable Swift add this to ``localrc``:
 # enable_service swift
-ENABLED_SERVICES=g-api,g-reg,key,n-api,n-crt,n-obj,n-cpu,n-net,n-cond,cinder,c-sch,c-api,c-vol,n-sch,n-novnc,n-xvnc,n-cauth,horizon,rabbit,tempest,mysql
+ENABLED_SERVICES=g-api,g-reg,key,n-api,n-crt,n-obj,n-cpu,n-net,n-cond,cinder,c-sch,c-api,c-vol,n-sch,n-novnc,n-xvnc,n-cauth,s-proxy,s-account,s-object,s-container,horizon,rabbit,tempest,mysql
 
 # Set the default Nova APIs to enable
 NOVA_ENABLED_APIS=ec2,osapi_compute,metadata
diff --git a/unstack.sh b/unstack.sh
index a086d5c620..3ac29857f8 100755
--- a/unstack.sh
+++ b/unstack.sh
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ if [[ -n "$SCREEN" ]]; then
 fi
 
 # Swift runs daemons
-if is_service_enabled swift; then
+if is_service_enabled s-proxy; then
     stop_swift
     cleanup_swift
 fi