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Amazon S3 overview

We offer an alternative to Quickbase File Attachment fields when you need to store data files associated to your Quickbase records. File attachment storage space can be very costly. We help minimize this cost by allowing you to use a separate web-based storage service from Amazon called Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). You sign up for an Amazon S3 account and pay Amazon directly for your file storage usage, $0.095 per GB per month (less than 10 cents per month). You pay us a monthly hosting fee to provide the integration between Amazon S3 and your Quickbase application. Your data files are stored in your Amazon S3 account—we do not store them for you. We provide you with the integration service between Quickbase and Amazon S3.

Amazon S3 options

We have a few extensions that help you use Amazon S3 instead of Quickbase File Attachment fields for data file storage. They vary in functionality, and the one to use really depends on what options you are looking for.

Here are links to the actual Quickbase Demo Applications we have for each of these extensions.

We also have a conversion utility, Amazon S3—File Conversion, that moves existing files from Quickbase to Amazon S3. This is a one-time run option to free up data file storage and to prepare your application for using one of our S3 extensions.

Feature comparison by S3 extension

Feature

S3 Basic

S3 File Attachment Sweep

S3 Document Management

S3 Multifile

Control File types to be uploaded

Checkmark: S3 Basic supports controlling file types to be uploaded

Checkmark: S3 File Attachment Sweep supports controlling file types to be uploaded

Checkmark: S3 Document Management supports controlling file types to be uploaded

Checkmark: S3 Multifile supports controlling file types to be uploaded

Drag and Drop Capability

Checkmark: S3 Basic supports drag and drop

Checkmark: S3 Document Management supports drag and drop

Checkmark: S3 Multifile supports drag and drop

Associate multiple files to a single record

Checkmark: S3 Document Management supports associating multiple files to a single record

Checkmark: S3 Multifile supports associating multiple files to a single record

Upload multiple files at one time

Checkmark: S3 Multifile supports uploading multiple files at one time

Track revision history

Checkmark: S3 Document Management supports tracking revision history

Pricing info

Pricing info for the extensions: Quickbase Extensions pricing

Pricing info for Amazon S3: Amazon S3 pricing

Note

There is also a link on this page to a Simple Monthly Calculator that you can use to estimate your storage costs from Amazon based on your file storage needs.