I’m interested in this as well, for TMS and for any other storage-intensive on-prem applications where folks are loading content into S3/ Azure as opposed to local disc.
FWIW: there are some tools that let you map S3 buckets as Windows shares (for example TntDrive, Cloudberry) so maybe one of those would work?
https://www.cloudberrylab.com/explorer/amazon-s3.aspx
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Yes, I agree, that’s an interesting idea. We use S3 for backup of our image data, but the files aren’t accessible by regular workstations unless you have some special software or a special storage gateway in the middle. S3 files don’t
use the same sort of filesystem (CIFS) that TMS wants to work with. Without something “special” going on, you can’t treat S3 as a typical external fileserver on a Windows computer.
And as always, I’m curious about who (if anyone) is using Amazon AWS servers for any portion of their TMS system…
-Steve
Steve Rothman, Systems Administrator
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology - mobile: 617-517-4855 or x5-9968
Thanks for posting this, Peter! I'd be curious to hear from anyone using this on how it's going. Storage space has become a big issue for us.
Fatima Mahdi
Collections Information Specialist/TMS
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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