>> I think mainly the ease of having security dealt with around who can access etc really. Ofc you can just upload files and serve them over http,
This is where S3 really shines. You can give developers access through group membership while servers using instance profiles. We have implemented a fine grained access control for the S3 repos that works really well. Of course you access the content via HTTPS.
Fair enough, I dislike having the idea of having disparate systems where one type of the same thing is stored on a different system from a second type of the same thing.
IAM is on the AWS repo aswell isn't it? I guess it wouldn't be so bad then.
This is where S3 really shines. You can give developers access through group membership while servers using instance profiles. We have implemented a fine grained access control for the S3 repos that works really well. Of course you access the content via HTTPS.