Can I store Jira Attachments on S3 bucket?

[Sandesh Shetty]

We are hosting our Jira Software Server on AWS (EC2 Instance) . We want to store Jira attachments on S3 bucket. Is any method is available to achieve this??

[Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting] · Accepted solution]

Technically, yes, but you don't want to.  S3 is API storage and therefore has exceedingly high latency and poor throughput performance.  Jira expects attachments to be on block storage, so if it sees performance other than what you experience with normal block storage, you can expect problems.

Since S3 storage is API storage, it's not like a disk or shared storage volume that you can just mount.  Depending on your OS, there are tools that can talk to S3 and present something that roughly behaves like block storage to the operating system, but we have found that it's not something that you want to rely on.  It's fine for backups, scratch storage and things like that, but I wouldn't use it for any data that you use live.

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