Aeion Files for Engineering Team Shared Drives
Engineering teams have a tougher file workload than most — design docs alongside 500MB CAD files alongside multi-GB build artifacts alongside Figma exports alongside ML training datasets. Dropbox Business pricing ($20/user/month + storage tiers), Google Drive Business limits, and the patchwork of custom S3 buckets sprawled across teams creates $50-300K/year for a 100-person engineering org. Aeion Files delivers shared drives + immutable versioning + file locking for binaries + Bridge desktop sync + AI tagging — on your own storage backend, with cross-link integration to Forge tickets and Collab threads.
What Engineering File Workloads Demand
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Walkthrough — Software Engineering Org
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Walkthrough — Hardware Engineering Team
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FAQ
Yes — Aeion Bridge desktop app supports bidirectional folder sync, folder-watch auto-upload, and a native file/folder picker. There's no bandwidth-budget or offline-cache control today.
Yes via chunked uploads. S3 multipart upload native. Pause/resume supported.
Yes — check out a file for an exclusive lock; other users get a 423 response naming who holds it. Release is explicit (unlock call by the lock holder) — there's no automatic timeout or admin force-release today.
Not fully implemented today. The WebDAV endpoints currently expose status/configuration only — there's no working PROPFIND/MKCOL/LOCK protocol server yet, so it won't actually mount as a network drive in Finder/Explorer/davfs2. Use Bridge desktop sync for local file access in the meantime.
Yes via WOPI (Collabora or ONLYOFFICE) — collaborative editing is handled by whichever WOPI server you configure.
No dedicated integration today — there's no Figma/Sketch-specific OAuth or auto-archive/auto-version pipeline. Export and upload the file like any other asset; comments and versioning apply once it's in Files.
Version diff compares file metadata (size, mimetype, checksum) and, for text-bearing files, line-level content. There's no thumbnail-visual diff or CAD-specific metadata extraction (mass, dimensions, BOM) — full geometric diff requires CAD-specific tools outside Aeion Files.
Per-space quota (quotaBytes/usedBytes) is real; there's no separate per-user or per-tier quota layer today.
Yes. Signed link with expiration + access log, no Aeion account required. "Secure view" mode flags the response for the viewer but doesn't currently render a visible watermark on the file.
Per-file Forge-ticket link via the generic cross-module context-link feature — a link you create explicitly, not an automatic PR/ticket sync.
If you point your storage backend's `publicUrlBase` at your own CDN (e.g. CloudFront in front of your bucket), Files will use it for public URLs — there's no Aeion-operated CDN.
Dropbox Business: $20-30/user/month. Aeion Files: $0, included free with any module, plus your own storage cost. Actual savings depend on which Dropbox features you use today vs. what's implemented above (WebDAV mounting and Figma integration are gaps to check first).