FluentStorage, originally known as Storage.NET, is a field-tested polycloud .NET cloud storage library that helps you interface with multiple cloud providers from a single unified interface.
It provides a generic interface for Blob storage across all cloud storage providers (AWS S3, GCP, FTP, SFTP, Azure Blob/File/Event Hub/Data Lake) and cloud messaging providers (AWS SQS, Azure Queue/ServiceBus).
It is written entirely in C#. Supports .NET 5+ and .NET Standard 2.0+. External dependencies are only added by FluentStorage sub-packages.
FluentStorage is released under the permissive MIT License, so it can be used in both proprietary and free/open source applications.
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Unified API to interface with all major cloud providers for Blobs and Messaging.
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Provides a generic interface regardless on which storage provider you are using.
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Provides both synchronous and asynchronous alternatives of all methods and implements it to the best effort possible.
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Supports providers: AWS S3, AWS SQS, GCP Storage, FTP, FTPS, SFTP, Azure Blob & File Storage, Azure Queue Storage, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hub, Azure Data Lake Store, Azure Key Vault.
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Supports providers using out-of-the-box Nuget packages, with hassle-free configuration and zero learning path.
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Implements in-memory and on-disk versions of all the abstractions, therefore you can develop fast on a local machine or use vendor-free serverless implementations for parts of your application.
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Implements data transformation sinks for encryption and compression.
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Attempts to enforce idential behavior on all implementations of storage interfaces to the smallest details possible, and contains many test specifications which will help you to add another provider.
Today, most cloud applications and services are developed against vendor-specific APIs like Amazon S3 API or Azure Blob API for cloud storage capabilities.
Using multiple vendor-specific APIs can increase your vendor lock-in, and makes your application more complex and harder to maintain. And sometimes these APIs may not offer all the functionality you need for your application. Polycloud also becomes very hard to implement.
What if we had a single, consistent API to deal with all types of cloud storage? That would solve these issues and bring more flexibility in switching cloud providers or cloud services.
Thus was born the idea for FluentStorage.
You can use a single, consistent API to interact with multiple cloud providers, where each provider is supported through its own special Nuget package.
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Easy to write code that is not tied to a specific cloud provider.
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Easily switch between different providers without having to rewrite any part of their application or service.
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Easily migrate to using a new storage technology for some part of your cloud application (S3 buckets, Azure Blobs, FTP, etc.)
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Natively implement polycloud (support for multiple public clouds)
Stable binaries are released on NuGet, and contain everything you need to use Cloud Storage in your .NET app.
FluentStorage works on .NET and .NET Standard/.NET Core.
| Platform | Binaries Folder |
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| .NET 5.0 | net50 |
| .NET 6.0 | net60 |
| .NET Standard 2.0 | netstandard2.0 |
| .NET Standard 2.1 | netstandard2.1 |
FluentStorage is also supported on these platforms: (via .NET Standard)
- Mono 4.6
- Xamarin.iOS 10.0
- Xamarin.Android 10.0
- Universal Windows Platform 10.0
Binaries for all platforms are built from a single Visual Studio Project. You will need the latest Visual Studio to build or contribute to FluentStorage.
Check the Wiki.
In 2023 we added:
- SFTP provider SSH.NET added
- FTP provider FluentFTP updated to v44
- AWS Nuget bumped to latest versions
- Wiki created for documentation
- Platform support updated to
netstandard2.0,netstandard2.1,net50,net60
Special thanks to these awesome people who helped create FluentStorage! Shoutout to Ivan Gavryliuk for the original project Storage.Net.
