Configuring MarkLogic for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Last Updated: April 14, 2026
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- MarkLogic Server
- Version 11.0
- Documentation
Amazon S3 storage can be used for backups and as a read-only forest in a tiered storage configuration. MarkLogic does not support regular or replica forests on Amazon S3 storage.
Amazon S3 support is built into MarkLogic Server as an available file system type. You configure S3 access at the group level. Once you have configured a group for S3, any forest in the group can be placed on S3 by specifying an S3 Path. Additionally, any host in the group can do backups to S3, restore from S3, as well as read and write directories and files on S3.
Note:
Transaction journaling does not work on S3 because the S3 file system cannot do the file operations necessary to maintain a journal. Unless your S3 forest is configured with a fast data directory or updates allowed is set to read-only, you must set the journaling option on your database to off before attaching the forest to the database. This is not a requirement for backup/restore operations on a database, however.
To configure MarkLogic to access Amazon S3, follow these steps: