Using AWS S3 as file storage

Overview

Shopware 6 can be used with several cloud storage providers, it uses Flysystem to provide a common interface between different providers as well as the local filesystem. This enables your shops to read and write files through a common interface.

Setup

For our example you will need two S3 buckets:

• One for private files: invoices, delivery notes, etc
• One for public files: product pictures, media files in general

Also you need an IAM user to enable your Shopware 6 installation to access both buckets. Make sure that the bucket permissions are set so that the files from the public bucket can be read without user credentials and that the private Bucket can only be accessed from authorized IAM users.

Configuration

The configuration for file storage of Shopware 6 resides in the general bundle configuration:

<development root>
└── config
   └── packages
      └── shopware.yml

To set up a non default filesystem for your shop you need to add the filesystem: map to the shopware.yml. Under this key you can separately define your storage for the public and private filesystem like this:

shopware:
  filesystem:
    public:
      type: "amazon-s3"
      config:
        bucket: "{your-public-bucket-name}"
        region: "{your-bucket-region}"
        options:
          visibility: "public"
    private:
      type: "amazon-s3"
      config:
        bucket: "{your-private-bucket-name}"
        region: "{your-bucket-region}"
        options:
          visibility: "private"

To utilize your public bucket you have to add its URL as the CDN for your shop, this is just another set of values in the shopware.yml:

shopware:
  cdn:
    url: "https://s3.{your-bucket-region}.amazonaws.com/{your-private-bucket-name}"
    strategy: "md5"

AWS access

Accessing the buckets is controlled through IAM, this means that your Shopware 6 instance needs to be assigned an IAM user. To do this you generate an access key and secret pair for your IAM user. To pass both the key and the secret to Shopware 6 set the environment variables AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY through the .env file or other AWS related tooling. Note: make sure your IAM user has read/write permissions for both Buckets.

Final notes

Although this example uses AWS S3, Shopware 6 also supports using Google Cloud Storage as an external filesystem.