Is there a way to skip hot buckets (local storage) and ingest/index data directly into smartstore (s3 buckets) ?
No this would not be possible. The bucket while hot is changing and it can only be uploaded to object storage when the changes stop. i.e. A warm bucket
What if we just reduce the maxhotbuckets attribute to - 0 or change other hotbucket attribute like maxHotSpanSecs to 0, wouldn't just skip hot bucket and roll to warm bucket which would essentially get stored on S3 ?
Alternatively, what if we configure S3 storage for hot buckets ?
I expect this to not work but feel free to test.