amazon web services - AEM/Adobe Experience Manager upload only some assets to AWS S3

Question

My company is using AEM 6.5 and we were thinking to get some better performance out of our systems. The idea we had is to upload only some assets (for example videos) to an S3 bucket and keep the other assets locally, we do not want to upload all the assets/datastore to S3. I know I can switch the datastore to S3, but that would mean all the assets go to S3, and we don't want this.

Restriction: we want the video upload to be done seamlessly from within the AEM Author, the editor should upload the video normally and somehow, behind the scenes, this transition to S3 to happen.

I checked as much documentation as I could find, and there is no mention of this partial asset upload to S3, you either go full S3 or nothing at all (we already tested full S3 datastore, it's working, but we do not want it).

So, my question is: did someone manage to do something like this?

Thanks

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66063565/aem-adobe-experience-manager-upload-only-some-assets-to-aws-s3

Answer 1

Have you looked into writing an Adobe Experience Manager workflow that would then read a list of assets to upload and then only update those specified assets. You could control which assets are uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket before running the AEM workflow.

You can create a custom workflow step as discussed here. However in your use case - you would use the S3 Java API to create a custom workflow step. This is one way you can control which assets are uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket from AEM.

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/message_service_gateway_api_64.html