It would helpful if the FME Server System Share could deployed to an Amazon S3 bucket. This would remove the use of a fileshare, increase user options during fault tolerant deployments as well as assist with automatic backups. For users already leveraging AWS EC2 machines as their server component host this also allows for seamless AWS deployments. If the ability to leverage Azure and Google Cloud equivalents to S3 could be implemented that would also be useful for those who want to architect cloud agnostic deployments while removing the dependency on a fileshare.
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Currently, you can mount an AWS S3 bucket as a resource folder which can be used for backups. However, it can only be used for backups. https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Server_Documentation/WebUI/Manage_Resource_Connections.htm
The requirement, therefore, is twofold:
- You should be able to configure the FME Server logs to write to an external file source such as S3, so that it makes it easier to deploy a fault-tolerant FME Server and so it makes it easier to push the FME Server log files to services such as DataDog or AWS Cloudwatch.
- You should be able to configure the data FME Server system share to write to an external file source such as S3, so that FME Engines can read data directly from S3 which means I don't have to copy my data onto the EC2 instance for processing.
On Microsoft Azure this is already supported when using Azure Files, because this storage solution supports REST & SMB 3.0.
Here's more info on how to use it:
https://knowledge.safe.com/content/idea/52032/fme-server-needs-to-support-microsoft-azure-cloud.html