S3 storage support

It would be great to be able to store packages on S3 instead of on disk.

Especially when aiming to store a lot packages in RDepot (100k+), storing on disk becomes expensive.
S3 is the canonical way to store such static assets efficiently :slight_smile:

Hi @pat-s,

S3 support is on the roadmap.
However, use-cases with that many packages have been scarce in practice.

Can you share a bit more about your use-case? I assume this is mostly for mirroring?

Best,
Daan

Nope, I am evaluating whether RDepot would work as a frontend to https://rpkgs.com/, which already serves 1.6 mio binaries since 5 months.

The current frontend is a shiny dashboard which only serves as an interface to query the underlying DB storing the metadata information around the builds.