The Alfresco Content Connector for AWS S3
is an add-on module that provides an alternative content store. It uses Amazon's Simple Storage
Service (S3) as the storage mechanism for Alfresco Content Services, allowing for virtually
unlimited and inexpensive storage.
Here is a summary of the key capabilities introduced in 2.1:
- Support for AWS S3 for on-premises installation of Alfresco Content Services
- AWS S3 Standard - Infrequent Access (S3 IA) storage class support
- Refactored to use AWS SDK instead of old JetS3t libraries as it's less error prone
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) support
- AWS Key Management Service (KMS) support
- Storage path approach optimized for high-throughput reads and writes
- Handling incomplete multipart uploads abort
Important: The S3 Connector
2.2 module can be applied
to Alfresco Content Services 6.0 or later.
Important: To leverage the full capabilities, it's recommended to run your Alfresco Content Services instance on Amazon's Elastic
Compute Cloud (EC2), connected to Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3). From S3 Connector 2.1 you can also use the S3
Connector with an Alfresco Content Services instance
running on-premises, with some limitations. Other devices or services that advertise as being S3
compatible have not been tested and aren't supported.
The following diagram shows a simple representation of how Alfresco Content Services and the S3 Connector interact with AWS S3.
For earlier releases of the S3 Connector, see the Previous versions section of http://docs.alfresco.com.