This guide provides documentation for AWS Wickr. For Wickr Enterprise, which is the on-premises version of Wickr, see Enterprise Administration Guide.
Storage options for AWS Wickr network
After data retention is enabled and the data retention bot is configured for your Wickr network, it will capture all messages and files sent within your network. Messages are saved in files which are limited to a specific size or time limit that can be configured using an environment variable. For more information, see Environment variables to configure data retention bot in AWS Wickr.
You can configure one of the following options for storing this data:
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Store all captured messages and files locally. This is the default option. It's your responsibility to move local files to another system for long-term storage, and to make sure the host disk does not run out of memory or space.
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Store all captured messages and files in an Amazon S3 bucket. The data retention bot will save all decrypted messages and files to the Amazon S3 bucket you specify. The captured messages and files are removed from the host machine after they are successfully saved to the bucket.
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Store all captured messages and files encrypted in an Amazon S3 bucket. The data retention bot will re-encrypt all captured messages and files using a key that you supply and save them to the Amazon S3 bucket you specify. The captured messages and files are removed from the host machine after they are successfully re-encrypted and saved to the bucket. You will need software to decrypt the messages and files.
For more information about creating an Amazon S3 bucket to use with your data retention bot, see Creating a bucket in the Amazon S3 User Guide
