# NextCloud with s3?

**URL:** <https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloud-with-s3/14824>\
**Category:** 🗃️ Hosting providers\
**Created:** [July 1, 2017, 9:35pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloud-with-s3/14824 "2017-07-01T21:35:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![cloud-king](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/cloud-king/32/4761_2.png) [@cloud-king](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/cloud-king)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 9:35pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloud-with-s3/14824/1 "2017-07-01T21:35:38Z")

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Hello World!

So I looked into this a few years ago. The grand question, was can oc be used with s3 for storage… The short answer was no unless you paid $$$$ for the enterprise edition. So here is my question, Can one setup NextCloud on a VPS or even EC2 utilizing s3 for storage. If so… how? If not what is a good cheep hosting provider for cheep multi TB storage?

Appreciate it

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**Author:** ![tflidd](https://help.nextcloud.com/letter_avatar/tflidd/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@tflidd](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/tflidd)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloud-with-s3/14824/2 "2017-07-01T22:28:55Z")

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You already asked in this thread:

> [@Primary Nextcloud storage with Amazon S3](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/primary-nextcloud-storage-with-amazon-s3/11291):
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> I have an existing Nextcloud server (version 10) running on an AWS EC2 instance with 1.5GB of files on the filesystem. I don’t want to host the files here but instead host them solely on an S3 bucket. I have installed the External Storage plugin which connected OK but only created a sub-folder which synced OK. I have read other forum posts here but they haven’t really explained how to achieve what I need. Could anyone point me in the right direction? Side question: With the host name variable …

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**Author:** ![tflidd](https://help.nextcloud.com/letter_avatar/tflidd/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@tflidd](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/tflidd)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloud-with-s3/14824/3 "2017-07-01T22:28:59Z")

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