Applications for Amazon S3 Storages

Applications for Amazon S3 storages have their own preconfigured templates.

Important: We recommend to not change the template settings for storages, except for Amazon S3 access.

Default storage properties

  • In Amazon S3, data is not stored in files, but as binary objects in the cloud.
  • The Amazon S3 connection is configured in the CORE master service. All applications managed through the same master service use the same Amazon S3 bucket for storages.
  • Scalability: Amazon S3 does not set any limit to storage sizes.
  • Axcelerate Ingestion and Axcelerate Review & Analysis use primary storages, that is, deleting an application does not affect other applications using the same stored files. Also, applications do not use an external storage by default.
  • Storages are SQL-managed. SQL-management in combination with Amazon S3 storage offers:

    • single instance storage, that is, file sharing within one storage handler
    • external cloning, that is, file sharing between different storage handlers.
    • case-wide sharing of native files
    • compressed storage of native files and redactions

What does this mean for native files and images?

  • Native file copies are created for any type of data loading, including CSV data load. A reference to these native file copies is added to the Axcelerate Ingestion storage handler. During publishing, a reference to these native file copies is added to the Axcelerate Review & Analysis storage handler.
  • Image copies can be imported with CSV load or CSV merge. A reference to these image copies is added to the respective storage handler. During publishing, a reference is added for the Axcelerate Review & Analysis storage handler for images.