Hi there,
AWS recently announced “S3 files” a new way to access files in an S3 bucket.
Is this something anyone has already looked into? I know that S3 has been supported as a static publishing target for a long time but not as an asset storage instance. Maybe that is changing things a bit?
Thanks!
Things are changing a bit for sure! We are excited about the AWS news that you can use a S3 bucket as a shareable drive. In fact we have spun up a number of dev clusters that use geese-fs to achieve the same thing. We don’t have any cloud production loads running on S3 yet but plan to try this very soon.
Bottom line - dotCMS is all in on moving towards S3 to replace NFS, as the NFS server adds an additional dependency/burden/cost on any dotCMS deployment.
Thanks Will!
This sounds promising! There are for sure customers that will benefit from this solution being officially supported. My feeling is that implementing S3 Files as a storage layer definitely makes dotCMS deployments easier and shouldn’t be hard to implement.
Please keep us posted once this is closer to production.