Disabling both will indeed reduce the number of image versions, but the disk space usage saving are not that much to be honest.
What exactly is your problem here? Do you have a decade old forum that you imported into Discourse and there are too many attachments? Or is your forum an image-centric board and you produce many uploads on a daily basis?
It’s an image-centric board. About 200 to 400 images are posted per day. The S3 usage is growing like crazy.
I feel like for every image users upload, many versions are created, even after I disabled these two features. And I cannot figure out where else are the image versions being created.
I just reduced the max image size kb to 500 kb. And I’m testing other settings that can reduce the S3 consumption.