amazon-s3

Latency of requesting a object from S3 to EC2

What's the latency to GET an object from S3 from an EC2 Instance. For example, how many ms before the actual data stream for that object starts streaming back when requesting a object by it's full path. If the object exists on S3 If the object does not exist and to send a 404 Latency, not Throughput. ...

How to determine the host of the silverlight app

My silverlight app needs to get back to the host from whence it came for its data. How do I get the webclient to connect back to the root of that site. For example, my silverlight xap is sitting in an Amazon S3 bucket and loaded via an HTML file in that same bucket. I want to do a http://mybucket.s3.amazonaws.com/ and then act on the ...

S3: Duplicate buckets

What is the easiest way to duplicate an entire Amazon S3 bucket to a bucket in a different account? Ideally, we'd like to duplicate the bucket nightly to a different account in Amazon's European data center for backup purposes. ...

maven s3 wagon provider

How to deploy with wagon s3 provider? I've found several plugins, most of them are incomplete, some of them are not maintaned. There is also a sandbox plugin from official maven SVN repository but I'm figuring how to use it. Any hint? ...

How should I store state for a long-running process invoked from Django?

I am working on a Django application which allows a user to upload files. I need to perform some server-side processing on these files before sending them on to Amazon S3. After reading the responses to this question and this blog post I decided that the best manner in which to handle this is to have my view handler invoke a method on ...

Offsite backup from a timemachine capsule

How can I create a (secondary) backup to a offsite location of a timemachine backup residing on a apple timecapsule? Possible destinations are Amazon S3, Mosso Cloud Files, Generic SSH/SCP servers, ... ...

Force-Download with php on Amazon S3

I am trying to use http://code.google.com/p/amazon-s3-php-class/ to force-dowload files from AWS S3. I have an mp3 that I want people to "play" or "download." By default the when you access the file directly on s3 it begins to play in the browser. I need to add an option to actually download. I have Googled and found came up with nothing...

AWS & Silverlight do you have any notes from the field

I'm interested in getting my head around AWS (amazon web services) and its viability as a back end for Siverlight applications. Initially I'm interested in using S3 and SimpleDB to store and manage a media library. Before I start I'm trying to identify the spikes in difficulty. Is it authentication, rest vs soap, cross domain policy, or...

Amazon S3 secure access from flash

I am trying to access files in Amazon S3 bucket with SSL with ActionScript3. When I use this format... https://s3.amazonaws.com/bucket.name/filename I get security sandbox error. "Error #2048: Security sandbox violation: " When I switch to this format... https://bucket.name.s3.amazonaws.com/filename It works like a charm (until I...

How to create OpenSolaris self bunle volume on EC2

I'm using OpenSolaris 2008.11 on EC2. I want to create self bundle . in ubuntu sudo ec2-bundle-vol -d /mnt -k $EC2_PRIVATE_KEY -c $EC2_CERT --fstab /etc/fstab --user $AWS_ACCUNT_ID -r i386 but OpenSolaris does not have /etc/fstab Do you know? ...

S3 GET without Signing (Cleartext possible?)

Is there a way to GET a object from Amazon S3 by sending the cleartext Accesskey:Secret instead of signing/HMAC? ...

How do i prevent hotlinking on Amazon S3 without using signed URLs?

Is there any way i can prevent hotlinking on Amazon S3 without using signed URLs? ...

Django -- I have a small app ready, Should I go on private VPS or Google App Engine?

Hi, I have my first app, not that big, but it is the first step. (next big one on the way) Now if I want to put it on my own Linode VPS, I have to configure mod_python or mod_wsgi, as well as memcache, Ngix, mySQL or Postgresql, etc. to make it work. If I put it GAE, All I have to do is convert the models to use GAE's API. What I like...

mounting an s3 bucket in ec2 and using transparently as a mnt point

I have a webapp (call it myapp.com) that allows users to upload files. The webapp will be deployed on Amazon EC2 instance. I would like to serve these files back out to the webapp consumers via an s3 bucket based domain (i.e. uploads.myapp.com). When the user uploads the files, I can easily drop them in into a folder called "site_up...

S3 post InvalidPolicyDocument bucket-dependent?

I have direct HTML POSTing to an S3 bucket working for bucket A. If I keep all the code exactly the same but substitute and sign the policy for bucket B, Amazon returns an InvalidPolicyDocument error. Is there something about a bucket that needs to be enabled or set before it will accept posted objects? Thanks in advance! Ben ps. I h...

Google App Engine and Amazon S3 File Uploads

Hi guys, I know this has been asked before but there is really not a clear answer. My problem is I built a file upload script for GAE and only found out after, that you can only store files up to aprox. 1MB in the data store. I can stop you right here if you can tell me that if I enable billing the 1MB limit is history but I doubt it. I...

Can I deliver protected video content from the Amazon S3 service

Revision on initial post: I'm looking to deliver video content after a purchase of content is complete. Here are my requirements I need to protect content until purchase exists I want to use the Amazon S3 service because it is cost effective So that is about it, as I said before I would most likely use PHP to call the file from the ...

Why can I not access bitmap data of FLV video coming from Amazon S3?

I have a video player that loads progressive flv video from a server and applies a reflection to it. I do this by creating a bitmapData object and then drawing the video to it. This worked absolutely fine until we moved our content from testing server to Amazon S3. Now there is no reflection. Can anyone explain why this is happening and...

iPhone API for Accessing Amazon S3 REST API

Does anyone have any suggestions for GETing from or POSTing to Amazon S3 services using their REST API via the iPhone. It does not look like it is possible but I may be reading the docs wrong. Thank you in advance for your help! L. ...

Transfering 100,000 images to S3. What's the quickest way?

I'm looking for the fastest way to transfer ~100,000 images from a server to my Amazon S3 bucket. Would that be to loop through every image and do a separate PUT request? I was hoping there was a quicker way, but haven't found anything. ...