S3 Storage Support for Media Directory

10 votes

I would love to see support for mounting S3-compatible storage as a media storage backend. This way, one could run AzuraCast on hardware that might not have a lot of local storage, but when you take advantage of something like Backblaze B2 ($0.005/GB), you can have an extremely inexpensive remote object storage solution. S3-compatible object storage is perfect for storing music/multimedia files.

Thanks for your consideration.

Done Suggested by: Tyler Rodick (13 Aug, '20) • Upvoted: 16 Jun, '21 • Comments: 4

Comments: 4

28 Oct, '20
Madpeter
Downsides:
Delay in fetching files due to remote (will need to fetch early and keep it localy untill its used "maybe next 3 tracks?")
Extra bandwith costs to pull the media to the server for processing

Upsides:
Servers can have much smaller disks as they dont need to keep the full media lib local to itself.
Storage space can be scaled as needed.
14 Nov, '20
Buster Neece Admin
Implemented in latest rolling release version with a new "Storage Location" migration that allows stations with the same media to share a single storage location (reducing processing load) and to add a storage location that's remote (currently only supporting S3-compatible services).
09 Dec, '20
imacrea
just discovered this has been implemented. AMAZING
21 Jun, '21
Buster Neece Admin
"Wasabi S3 Integration" (suggested by Joey on 2021-06-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.