Shade allows you to connect a self-hosted S3 bucket as your storage backend for Shade.
You can connect your own S3 storage to the Shade cloud, allowing you to configure your own buckets, regions, and permissions for your team. This is essentially paying for Shade as a service, with the ability to mount and search your assets without needing to pay for storage.
Shade will need to format your bucket to match our backend API. This means your files will be chunked with irregular UUID names and without any folders. Your team will not be able to use the S3 bucket as "regular" file storage with folders. For more information, please contact us here.
Setting up a BYOS3 Drive
Files uploaded to Shade either through the browser, desktop app, or ShadeFS mount will appear in your S3 buckets as "blobs" and "chunks".
