nextcloud / nextcloud/server

Take full advantage of object storages

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Since Oct 28, 2025.

feature: filesystem feature: object storage hotspot: file transfer performance performance 🚀
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Description

When we are using an object store and not using server side encryption, Nextcloud clients (web/desktop/...) should do as many operation as possible directly on the object store without relying on Nextcloud. This is possible thanks to pre-signed links which allow to do some operation for a certain amount of time.

Must have (P0/S)

  • Download files from S3 directly #54436
    • Support for desktop client
    • Support for web client
    • Support for iOS client
    • Support for Android client
  • Download files from S3 to generate previews #53634
  • Download previews from S3 directly #54622

Nice to have (P2/M)

  • Upload files to S3 directly

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