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I currently have a regular on Premise SMB file share using a storage NAS. I want to delete the NAS all-in-all and use S3 service. I want to know is it possible to have it attach to say my Windows File Server as a network drive. Then from there redirect clients documents, photo, and videos to a space on the S3 drive. But have my File Server handle the connection to the S3 service?

So it would act as it does now really. When you go to \\fileserver\$user-redir\[name] it will direct to the user profile but there profile is really on an S3 drive.

Is this possible?

RTarson
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The AWS Storage Gateway for Files fills most of your requirements. It runs as a VM, so you probably can't run it on a standard NAS.

You can probably mount S3 directly to a PC, rather than via the NAS.

(A year later) You could also look at MSP360 (CloudBerry) Drive, which makes S3 look like a network drive to Windows.

Tim
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