Storing images on AWS S3 for ODK Central

[Saad]

Hi,

I am designing a pretty big scale data collection exercise, and am worried about resources consumption on AWS server (especially disk space), since the forms are going to carry images, and the total expected number of forms is pretty big. Is there a mechanism where we could tweak ODK Central to use AWS S3 to store images, instead of the server disk space?

Thanks,
Saad

[Matthew_White]

Hi @Saad! There's been some related discussion of this feature here:

External storage for blobs in ODK Central

Currently, attachments to submissions and forms are stored as blobs in a database table. It will be great if possible to store these in a network file system, or best in a managed storage solution like Google Cloud Storage, Amazon S3, etc. 1. What is the general goal of the feature? Reduce the database size, which will greatly speed up the backup and restore operations. 2. What are some example use cases for this feature? At the moment, my self-hosted central database is around 70GB. The nig…