Cloud Storage Connections

The Files.com Agent can act as a secure proxy that routes connections from your Files.com site to cloud storage solutions. This capability allows Files.com to reach storage that lives entirely inside private networks, without requiring the storage to be exposed to the public internet.

Prerequisites

To use Agent-routed connections, you must run a Files.com Agent on a system that can reach the cloud storage solution, and its storage buckets, over the network.

The Agent host must have outbound access to the cloud storage solution on its configured port, typically TCP 443.

The Agent configuration must explicitly allow cloud storage routing, and the storage solution must accept connections from the Agent host.

Enable Routing on the Agent

Files.com enables S3 routing through the Agent configuration file. Edit the configuration file and set the integrations value to include the values for your cloud storage solutions.

Valid values are:

Save the change and restart the Agent so it can advertise cloud storage routing support to your Files.com site.

Only specify the integration types that you need. For example:

integrations = ["amazon_s3","google_cloud_storage","azure_blob_storage","s3_compatible"]

Once the Agent restarts, it becomes available for cloud storage routing.

Configure a Cloud Storage Remote Server to Use the Agent

After the Agent has been configured for cloud storage routing, configure the Remote Server in Files.com.

When creating or editing the Remote Server, enter the connection and authentication information for your cloud storage. Enable Agent routing and select the Agent that you want to route the connection through.

From that point forward, Files.com routes all traffic for this Remote Server through the selected Agent.