Getting the download count of a specific S3 object

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Getting the download count of a specific S3 object

I've got a number of S3 objects that are available to my customers. Since I'd like to bill my customers by usage, I wondered if there is any smart kind of way to get the number of times a given file has been downloaded?

Alternatively, I suppose I could parse the log files provided by S3, but with 10m+ fetches per customer this might be bit of a task.

Any ideas?

You could redirect through a script on your site that increments a count before redirecting to the S3 URL.

Amber 2010-06-12 09:08:47

That wouldn't be an option since the reason I'm using S3 is to avoid passing stuff through my server.

phidah 2010-06-12 09:09:52

Well, if it's a header-based redirect, your server won't actually be serving the data of content... but since you mention 10m+ fetches, I'm guessing you might also want to avoid the request load in the first place, which is understandable.

Amber 2010-06-12 09:29:04

Indeed. The average file size is ~10kb.

phidah 2010-06-12 10:09:06

Parsing the log files is probably the most straightforward way then.

Amber 2010-06-12 17:23:49

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