I'm using Amazon S3 to put the mp3 file then allow our site visitor to download the mp3 from Amazon AWS. I use S3Fox to manage the file, everything seems working fine until recently we got many complaints from visitor that the mp3 was streamed via the browser instead of displaying browser save dialog. I try for some mp3 and notice that f...
I have the aws/s3 gem which comes with a command line program to interact with s3. I have already created a bucket in the management console names "products.mydomainname.com" but I cannot seem to read it via the API. For example, I do: mball-lt:fsg tamoyal$ s3sh >> Version => "0.6.2" >> AWS::S3::Base.establish_connection!(:access_key_...
I'm storing copies of database backups on Amazon S3 using the Python Boto library. But I worry that if my web server was hacked, those backups could be deleted using the credentials I need to do the upload. Ok, so I know you can grant permissions to another Amazon email address, so I can imagine doing that after an upload then removing ...
How to retrieve user metadata from an object? ...
Basically, how does Amazon S3 handle files which already have the same filename inside a specified bucket? Assuming I can only upload to one particular bucket, will S3 change the filename or something? Thanks! ...
I'm using jammit to package the js and css files for a rails project. I would like now to upload the files to Amazon S3 and use CloudFront for the delivery. What would be the best way to deal with new versions ? My ideal solution would be to have a capistrano recipe to deal with it. As anyone already done something like that? ...
Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) is a new service from Amazon that is a bit cheaper than S3 because there is less redundancy. However, I can not find any information on how to specify that my data should use RRS rather than standard S3. In fact, there doesn't seem to be any website interface for an S3 services. If I log into AWS, there ...
We're uploading files to a temporary folder in a bucket. After that, we're trying to copy the uploaded files to its actual folder then delete the files in the temporary folder. It doesn't timeout when working with a single file. We're using the ThreeSharp API. Stack Trace: [WebException: The operation has timed out] System.Net.Ht...
Hi all, I was wondering if it was possible to generate security credentials per individual Amazon S3 bucket. I am working with a developer and would like to grant him access only to the bucket we are working with. It's not a trust issue, it's more a concern that he'll delete the wrong bucket or its contents. For example: If we were wor...
I am trying to build a CMS I can use to host multiple sites. I know I'm going to end up reinventing the wheel a million times with this project, so I'm thinking about extending an existing open source Ruby on Rails CMS to meet my needs. One of those needs is to be able to run multiple sites, while using only one code-base. That way, whe...
What's the best way to use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) on Android? For iPhone I use ASIHTTPRequest. Is there something similar for Android? ...
I am in Europe. How do I set the Region to EU (ireland) when using AmazonS3Client to copy files? ...
Hi all, I am planning to develop a iphone client application to upload images from iphone gallery to amazon s3 using rest calls.so is there any library to run this application as a background process in iphone. Also is there any library to access the iphone photo gallery(Should be able access all the images,not only selected one like i...
Hi all, i am developing a mobile client to sync images from iphone photo gallery to amazon s3,so is there any sync services libraries that can help me in this regard.. Also is there any library to access the iphone photo gallery,I just wanted to pick all photos, randomly, from the images stored on the device with no user interaction? ...
Hi, I have setup a Hadoop cluster containing 5 nodes on Amazon EC2. Now, when i login into the Master node and submit the following command bin/hadoop jar <program>.jar <arg1> <arg2> <path/to/input/file/on/S3> It throws the following errors (not at the same time.) The first error is thrown when i don't replace the slashes with '%2F' ...
Hey everyone, I have a rails app running on Heroku. I am using paperclip for some simple image uploads for user avatars and some other things, I have S3 set as my backend and everything seems to be working fine except when trying to push to S3 I get the following error: The AWS Access Key Id you provided does not exist in our records...
I'm trying to get Heroku working with European buckets on amazon s3 webserivces using the aws-s3 gem. It seems I need to install a forked version of the gem to get around the issue. However, with heroku I can only use the .gems file to install gems. Can I use this .gems file to install forked-gems somehow? ...
I'm trying to figure out if I can get browsers to cache images with signed urls. What I want is to generate a new signed url for every request (same image, but with an updated signature), but have the browser not re-download it every time. So, assuming the cache-related headers are set correctly, and all of the URL is the same except f...
I am trying to get a feel for the costs imposed by running apache on AWS continually. Assuming that the service is scarcely used, does anyone know how many cpu hours that would eat up in a month just by sitting there and running? I understand that this is slightly impractical but I am trying to figure out what the cost of entry is to dep...
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 ...