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At runtime how do we access artifacts stored in S3 block storage? (Prefect v2) Are all artifacts copied to some location when the flow run begins?

For example, say we have a command line tool named `fazer` which expects an xml file as an argument.

Normally we would run
`/usr/sbin/fazer some-file.xml`

In prefect v2, can we package up the xml file and have it available in a particular directory at runtime?

yes <https://docs.prefect.io/concepts/storage/|https://docs.prefect.io/concepts/storage/>

We use S3 block storage to upload artifacts. But it's not clear from the documentation how to retrieve (non-python) artifacts from that storage to use them at runtime.

it uploads the entire workflow folder and obviously downloads when run, allowing for relative imports and static configuration files