Storing images on AWS S3 for ODK Central

[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…