Key benefits

• Integrated beginning with Pega Platform 7.3

  Pega Cloud File storage is pre-configured to support your Pega Cloud applications. Disk space is pre-allocated with separate sub-folders for your cloud environments (development, staging, and production). Default paths are configured for each environment, and security settings used default to the credentials and keys in your Pega Cloud profile.

• Cost-effective cloud file storage

  Pega Cloud File storage is a cost-effective solution for storing archived cases, case attachments, BIX data extracts, and data uploaded through the Pega Cloud SFTP service. Pega Cloud production subscription clients receive 500 GB of file storage to use across all environments in the subscription. Pega Cloud production subscribers can purchase additional Pega Cloud File storage in 500 GB increments. Pega Cloud File storage costs significantly less than our cloud database storage and is priced well below many of our competitors.

• No limits on file counts or total storage size

  By not limiting the number or size of files stored, Pega Cloud File storage can scale to your business needs. Individual files can be up to 5 TB.

• Secure, private, and reliable solution

  Pega Cloud File storage is highly reliable, private, and secure. Only your applications can access your storage space, and data is encrypted both in transit and at rest.

• The same support staff for both your application and your cloud file storage

  The Pega Cloud Support team provides support for Pega Platform, strategic application solutions, and Pega Cloud File storage. This breadth of knowledge results in faster and more effective responses, which third-party storage providers cannot match. Pega support services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

• Soft limits on storage space

  By providing soft limits on storage space, Pega Cloud File storage gives you time to clean up your storage space or purchase additional storage, averting an out-of-space crisis.

• Data retention policy

  For archived case data, you can apply a data retention policy to delete archived files from Pega Cloud File storage. For more information, see Case archiving and purging overview.

  After you delete a file in Pega Cloud File storage, such as by using a data retention policy or REST API, you can recover the file within 30 days of deletion. To review this Pega Cloud servicespolicy details, see Database backup and restore.

  Pega Cloud services will not delete any data in your Pega Cloud File storage repository until Pega Cloud services decommissions an environment at your request. For more information about Pega Cloud File storage, contact you Pega Account Executive.

Overview of repository names Pega Cloud services provides by default

When Pega Cloud services provisions your environment, it creates two repositories in your Pega Cloud File storage for your environment, pegacloudfilestorage and for SFTP, a mapping from pegacloudrepository to pegacloudfilestorage/sftp. To see both of these destinations in the Storage Destinations view in Dev Studio, from the header of Dev Studio, click ConfigureSystemSettingsFile Storage.

Pega Platform structures the Pega Cloud File storage directory using the logic displayed in the following image.

You must select or reference the appropriate repository record for your Pega Cloud File storage repository and the associated sub-folder when using Pega Platform to perform the following actions:

Accessing and managing files in your Pega Cloud File storage pegacloudfilestorage repository

For Pega Cloud services environments, Pega uses Pega Cloud File storage as the default repository, which appears as pegacloudfilestorage in the list of repositories in RecordsSysAdminRepository.

Pega Cloud services does not allow direct access to the filesystem in a Pega Cloud File storage repository; instead you manage your files in a Pega Cloud File storage repository with the following methods:

• Use a Pega Platform repository API to manage files in your repository; for an overview, see Using repository APIs in your application.
• Use an SFTP client to interact with the Pega Cloud File storage dedicated SFTP sub-folder through the Pega Cloud services SFTP service, for an overview; for an overview, see Using Pega Cloud SFTP service.
• Configure a file listener to process files in a repository; for an overview, see Using file listeners.

Using Pega Cloud File storage repository records and sub-folders

Pega Cloud File storage stores applicable files in different sub-folders depending on the feature Pega Cloud File storage utilizes.

Select the appropriate record for the following Pega Platform features and use cases:

• The pegacloudfilestorage record maps to the sub-folders /attachments for case attachments and \archive for archived case files.

  Caution: The pegacloudfilestorage record also contains the /sftp sub-folder, but do not select or use the /sftp sub-folder for case attachments and Pulse comments.

  • To configure the location for Pega application case attachments, use the pegacloudfilestorage repository record and the /attachments sub-folder.
  • To reference archived case data in Pega Cloud, use the pegacloudfilestorage/archive repository record sub-folder, which Pega Platform automatically creates when you run the initial archival job. For case archiving information, see Case archiving and purging overview.
  • To create a temporary file storage location sub-folder in pegacloudfilestorage, use the following method:
    1. In the navigation pane of Dev Studio, go to RecordsData ModelData Page.
    2. In the Data Page instance list, filter the Page Name column for D_pxNewFolder and select it.
    3. In the Actions list, select Run.
    4. In the Run Data Page: New Folder dialog window, specify your new sub-folder by entering the following information:
       1. In the repositoryName field, enter pegacloudfilestorage.
       2. In the folderPath field, enter your new folder name. For example, enter new_folder to create pegacloudfilestorage\new_folder.
    5. To create the folder, in the Run Data Page: New Folder dialog window, select Run.

       For more information about Pega repository APIs, see Using repository APIs in your application.

• The pegacloudrepository record maps to the pegacloudfilestorage/sftp subfolder for files you export from Pega Platform using the SFTP Service and the /bix subfolder for extract files. To reference the location used by the Pega Cloud SFTP service, or BIX extract files, use pegacloudrepository.

  • When you manage files using an SFTP client configured to use your Pega Cloud SFTP service URL, the pegacloudrepository record in Pega Platform automatically directs your connection to the pegacloudfilestorage/sftp sub-folder. From the client, your access to this folder originates at the filepath, /. For example:

    sftp> put test.txt
    Uploading test.txt to /test.txt
    test.txt 100% xxxKB xxMB/s  00:01
    sftp> get test.txt
    Fetching /test.txt to test.txt
    /test.txt 100% xxxKB xxMB/s   00:01

  • To reference, export, or delete BIX extract files using the Pega Cloud SFTP service, BIX FTP server, or an activity, use pegacloudrepository/bix sub-folder.

    Pega Platform creates the /bix sub-folder after you run an initial extraction process. For more information, see Overview of BIX extractions in Pega Cloud environments.

• To send files to your FTP server through a Connect-FTP method, you can source the file location using either pegacloudfilestorage and pegacloudrepository with the file specification format file://pegacloudfilestorage:/attachments or file://pegacloudrepository:/bix.

  For more information, see Connect-FTP method.