[MapServer-users] Can MapServer cache directly to AWS S3?

[Scott]

You can store any raster/vector file format supported by GDAL on S3 and 
use it via MapServer. Note the /vsis3 virtual connection:

Raster:
DATA "/vsis3/myS3Bucket/raster.tif"

Vector:
CONNECTION "/vsis3/myS3Bucket/vector.fgb"

MapServer is definitely a WMS server. Any OGC compliant WMS url can be 
parsed and processed. Using MapCache along MapServer is highly desirable 
as all subsequent WMS requests are cached. Further, you can seed any 
cache directly with MapCache.

Scott


On 3/5/25 07:57, Rob Dennett via MapServer-users wrote:
> Is it possible to cache tiles  to and serve them from S3 buckets?  We 
> currently mount S3 folders in EC2 instances one of which is the 
> directory we specify in MAP/IMAGEPATH, but it requires us to use s3fs- 
> fuse and that means we have to use EC2 as opposed to Fargate, which we 
> would prefer.  Can MapServer act as a client to S3?
> 
> I have been looking at MapCache, and as far as I can tell, it's a 
> separate server that works alongside a WMS server, although I am not 
> sure that MapServer counts as a WMS server.  We use it to serve geoJSON, 
> UTF grid, etc.  Is it what we want to use for this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob
> 
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