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Support to Delete files from AWS/Azure/FTP File Storage locations

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  • September 1, 2021
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Arie V
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For the File Storage locations AWS / Azure / FTP there is no standard supported way to delete files. For File Storage location FileSystem a Process action is available to delete files. We would like to be able to use the same/a similar Process action to delete files from other locations for (at least) the following reasons:

  • Integrity & Clean-up: if there is no reference to a file from any record in the Database, there is no use in keeping the file, while still costing us storage capacity
  • GDPR: a potential request based on the right to be forgotten requires to delete both records and files which are related to personally identifiable information of the requestor

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Jeroen van den Belt
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Marius Korff
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Hi,

This is exactly what seems to be missing.
Right now the File Storage on Azure is basically unusable because you'll end up with a huge pile of unused/dead data.

I'd love to see this 'feature’ in the near future 😀👍


Arie V
Community Manager
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  • August 19, 2022

@Marius Korff @Jeroen van den Belt I haven't tested it myself yet, but I assume this is now possible with the new version of the Delete File process action in Release 2022.2 for both Azure and AWS?

One additional remark is worth making though: if you use Versioning on your File Storage it might not delete all versions. For AWS S3 a Delete Marker is added as ‘new’ version of the File, but the original is not really deleted. To fix that we have added a Lifecycle policy. More details can be found here:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/DeletingObjectVersions.html

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41436132/s3-versioning-why-leave-an-expired-delete-marker-behind