Amazon S3 Bucket Data Storage for GDB Attachments

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05-16-2012 08:59 AM
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BlairDeaver
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In a SaaS deployment of ArcGIS Server I would like to see ESRI leverage Amazon S3 as a storage platform for Geodatabase Attachments for both ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS.com so that I can easily scale while keeping costs manageable.  Blob storage works well in a typical Enterprise environment but as more companies are moving to Public and Private Cloud deployments cheaper storage alternatives such as Amazon S3 make sense.  Additionally this would be a great feature for Services published to ArcGIS.com which currently does not support attachment functionality.