diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 710f401ac..ba49840b0 100755
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ In order to read more about upgrading and BC breaks have a look at the [UPGRADE
 
 ## 4.9.0
 
++ [#744](https://github.com/luyadev/luya-module-admin/pull/744) The internal CRUD export system no longer caches data in the @runtime folder, but uses the cache component instead. This could potentially cause problems when exporting large CRUD tables, but it fixes the problem when LUYA Admin is used in a cloud-scaled architecture.
 + [#743](https://github.com/luyadev/luya-module-admin/pull/743) Add option to ignore the pool context inside CRUD relation loader for `CheckboxRelation`, `SelectModel` and `SelectRelationActiveQuery` plugins.
 
 ## 4.8.0 (5. January 2023)
diff --git a/UPGRADE.md b/UPGRADE.md
index fe688ac1c..7f15dfd72 100644
--- a/UPGRADE.md
+++ b/UPGRADE.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 This document will help you upgrading from a LUYA admin module version into another. For more detailed informations about the breaking changes **click the issue detail link**, there you can examples of how to change your code.
 
+## from 4.8 to 4.9
+
++ [#744](https://github.com/luyadev/luya-module-admin/pull/744) Make sure you have a valid cache component registered to use the LUYA admin CRUD export system. If large tables are exported, the caching system must support such data sizes, the `file` or `redis` cache component supports large amounts of data.
+
 ## from 4.4 to 4.5
 
 + [#726](https://github.com/luyadev/luya-module-admin/pull/726) With the new [replaced jwt auth](https://github.com/bizley/yii2-jwt) library (which is required in order to support php 8.1) we use [lcobucci/jwt v4](https://github.com/lcobucci/jwt/releases/tag/4.0.0) which massivly changed the API. Therfore the main change for LUYA users is that `Lcobucci\JWT\Token` has been replaced with `Lcobucci\JWT\Token\Plain`. The signature of `luya\admin\base\JwtIdentityInterface` has changed from: `loginByJwtToken(Lcobucci\JWT\Token $token)` to `loginByJwtToken(Lcobucci\JWT\Token\Plain $token)` and in order to to claim the user id in the login process you have to use `$userId = $token->claims()->get('uid');` instead of `$userId = $token->getClaim('uid');`. Take a look at the [JWT Guide Diff](https://github.com/luyadev/luya/commit/74118e94ac4130226b925f6d2312a028287418c0)
diff --git a/src/ngrest/base/ActiveWindow.php b/src/ngrest/base/ActiveWindow.php
index b165f08a0..07272d6bf 100644
--- a/src/ngrest/base/ActiveWindow.php
+++ b/src/ngrest/base/ActiveWindow.php
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 use luya\admin\ngrest\NgRestButtonConditionInterface;
 use luya\admin\ngrest\NgRestPermissionLevelInterface;
 use luya\Exception;
-use luya\helpers\FileHelper;
 use luya\helpers\StringHelper;
 use luya\helpers\Url;
 use Yii;
@@ -142,28 +141,25 @@ public function createDownloadableFileUrl($fileName, $mimeType, $content)
     {
         $key = uniqid(microtime().Inflector::slug($fileName), true);
 
-        $store = FileHelper::writeFile('@runtime/'.$key.'.tmp', $content);
+        if (!Yii::$app->cache->set(['download', $key], $content, 60*60)) {
+            return false;
+        }
 
         $menu = Yii::$app->adminmenu->getApiDetail($this->model->ngRestApiEndpoint());
+        $route = str_replace("/index", "/export-download", $menu['route']);
 
-        $route = $menu['route'];
-        $route = str_replace("/index", "/export-download", $route);
+        Yii::$app->session->set('tempNgRestFileName', $fileName);
+        Yii::$app->session->set('tempNgRestFileKey', $key);
+        Yii::$app->session->set('tempNgRestFileMime', $mimeType);
 
-        if ($store) {
-            Yii::$app->session->set('tempNgRestFileName', $fileName);
-            Yii::$app->session->set('tempNgRestFileKey', $key);
-            Yii::$app->session->set('tempNgRestFileMime', $mimeType);
-            $url = Url::toRoute(['/'.$route], true);
-            $param = http_build_query(['key' => base64_encode($key), 'time' => time()]);
+        $url = Url::toRoute(['/'.$route], true);
+        $param = http_build_query(['key' => base64_encode($key), 'time' => time()]);
 
-            if (StringHelper::contains('?', $url)) {
-                return $url . "&" . $param;
-            } else {
-                return $url . "?" . $param;
-            }
+        if (StringHelper::contains('?', $url)) {
+            return $url . "&" . $param;
+        } else {
+            return $url . "?" . $param;
         }
-
-        return false;
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/ngrest/base/Api.php b/src/ngrest/base/Api.php
index 91eb16bbb..5ba11b84d 100644
--- a/src/ngrest/base/Api.php
+++ b/src/ngrest/base/Api.php
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 use luya\admin\traits\TaggableTrait;
 use luya\helpers\ArrayHelper;
 use luya\helpers\ExportHelper;
-use luya\helpers\FileHelper;
 use luya\helpers\Json;
 use luya\helpers\ObjectHelper;
 use luya\helpers\StringHelper;
@@ -839,32 +838,28 @@ public function actionExport()
 
         $key = uniqid('ngrestexport', true);
 
-        $store = FileHelper::writeFile('@runtime/'.$key.'.tmp', $tempData);
+        if (!Yii::$app->cache->set(['download', $key], $tempData, 60*60)) {
+            throw new ErrorException("Unable to write the temporary file. Make sure the runtime folder is writeable.");
+        }
 
         $menu = Yii::$app->adminmenu->getApiDetail($this->model->ngRestApiEndpoint());
+        $route = str_replace("/index", "/export-download", $menu['route']);
 
-        $route = $menu['route'];
-        $route = str_replace("/index", "/export-download", $route);
-
-        if ($store) {
-            Yii::$app->session->set('tempNgRestFileName', Inflector::slug($this->model->tableName())  . '-export-'.date("Y-m-d-H-i").'.' . $extension);
-            Yii::$app->session->set('tempNgRestFileMime', $mime);
-            Yii::$app->session->set('tempNgRestFileKey', $key);
+        Yii::$app->session->set('tempNgRestFileName', Inflector::slug($this->model->tableName())  . '-export-'.date("Y-m-d-H-i").'.' . $extension);
+        Yii::$app->session->set('tempNgRestFileMime', $mime);
+        Yii::$app->session->set('tempNgRestFileKey', $key);
 
-            $url = Url::toRoute(['/'.$route], true);
-            $param = http_build_query(['key' => base64_encode($key), 'time' => time()]);
+        $url = Url::toRoute(['/'.$route], true);
+        $param = http_build_query(['key' => base64_encode($key), 'time' => time()]);
 
-            if (StringHelper::contains('?', $url)) {
-                $route = $url . "&" . $param;
-            } else {
-                $route = $url . "?" . $param;
-            }
-            return [
-                'url' => $route,
-            ];
+        if (StringHelper::contains('?', $url)) {
+            $route = $url . "&" . $param;
+        } else {
+            $route = $url . "?" . $param;
         }
-
-        throw new ErrorException("Unable to write the temporary file. Make sure the runtime folder is writeable.");
+        return [
+            'url' => $route,
+        ];
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/ngrest/base/Controller.php b/src/ngrest/base/Controller.php
index 5a85e1318..71b188c91 100644
--- a/src/ngrest/base/Controller.php
+++ b/src/ngrest/base/Controller.php
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
 use luya\admin\Module;
 use luya\admin\ngrest\NgRest;
 use luya\admin\ngrest\render\RenderCrud;
-use luya\helpers\FileHelper;
 use Yii;
 use yii\base\InvalidConfigException;
 use yii\web\ForbiddenHttpException;
+use yii\web\NotFoundHttpException;
 
 /**
  * Base Controller for all NgRest Controllers.
@@ -241,12 +241,17 @@ public function actionExportDownload($key)
             throw new ForbiddenHttpException('Invalid download key.');
         }
 
-        $content = FileHelper::getFileContent('@runtime/'.$sessionkey.'.tmp');
+        $content = Yii::$app->cache->get(['download', $sessionkey]);
+
+        if (!$content) {
+            throw new NotFoundHttpException();
+        }
 
         Yii::$app->session->remove('tempNgRestFileKey');
         Yii::$app->session->remove('tempNgRestFileName');
         Yii::$app->session->remove('tempNgRestFileMime');
-        @unlink(Yii::getAlias('@runtime/'.$sessionkey.'.tmp'));
+
+        Yii::$app->cache->delete(['download', $sessionkey]);
 
         return Yii::$app->response->sendContentAsFile($content, $fileName, ['mimeType' => $mimeType]);
     }