File storage for Deadline Cloud
Workers must have access to the storage locations that contain the input files necessary to process a job, and to the locations that store the output. AWS Deadline Cloud provides two options for storage locations:
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With job attachments, Deadline Cloud transfers the input and output files for your jobs back and forth between a workstation and Deadline Cloud workers. To enable the file transfers, Deadline Cloud uses an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket in your AWS account.
When you use job attachments with a Linux based service-managed fleet, you can enable a virtual file system (VFS) to mount job attachments files and access them as needed instead of syncing them to the worker at the start of the job.
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With shared storage, you use file sharing with your operating system to provide access to files.
When you use cross-platform shared storage, you can create a storage profile so that workers can map the path to files between two different operating systems.
