This is for questions on Amazon's cloud storage service.
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What's the easiest way to back up EC2 instances automatically?
I'm worried I might log in one day and my fully configured instance has been removed. I would like to be able to back it up daily to S3 but frustratingly this is not a simple setting in the console.
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EC2 - Shared Storage - S3FS or EBS?
Building my web service onto EC2 right now and have a single instance behind a load balancer. I will of course cater for multiple instances.
My initial idea was to run all the instances a dumb ...
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Using amazon S3 as storage for attachments in a web-mail system
I am looking to use S3 as data storage service for a mail system.
The idea is to allow users to upload files that serve as attachments to their emails, which are then available to download from the ...
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How to calculate Amazon S3 prices
I am trying to estimate how much I need to pay to store images for my customers on Amazon S3.
I use their calculator but the total seems to cheap. Feels like I am missing something.
Each image is ...
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1answer
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How to transfer 4.4 GB of user images to S3?
What would be the best way to transfer 4.4 GB of user images to S3?
I would prefer to somehow directly trasnfer images from my current production server to a S3 bucket and without having to download ...
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Cross Region S3 bucket policy
I would like to allow EC2 servers based in us-east-1 to read content from a bucket in us-west-2.
Every time I try I get a "The Bucket you are attempting to access must be addressed using the ...
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S3 Interfaces for Backup, etc
Since none of the S3 "file systems" are compatible right now, what s3 gateway tool do you recommend for mounting a remote S3 bucket for backups? I've been using S3FS, but I've heard a lot of people ...
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S3-compatible Object Storage systems
Has anyone come across a near 100% Amazon S3 RESTful API compatible object storage system?
What I am after is a layer that sit on top of any (preferably a POSIX) filesystem that provides Amazon S3 ...
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Amazon EC2 migration from one region to the other
I'm using the following Amazon EC2 resources in the US East (Virginia) region:
1 Running Instance
1 Elastic IP
2 EBS Volumes
100 EBS Snapshots
1 Key Pair
2 Security Groups
5 My Own AMIs (customized ...
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Is mounting S3 buckets directly into EC2 instances safe?
as the title of my question says, I would like to know whether this is a good practice or not,
I know I can mount it in an EC2 instance but I was wondering if, as I will be adding more instances to ...
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Amazon CloudFront and EC2: Global Load Balancing
We have an app that is going to store and serve up a decent amount of data in S3 to a global audience where latency should be minimized. So, we've been doing tests with Amazon CloudFront and have seen ...
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Best remote mounted filesystem based on S3
I need to know what the best (read: highly performant and fault tolerant) filesystem solution based on Amazon's S3 is. I have looked a s3fs, but I notice that it has not been worked on for a while ...
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Amazon S3 tools for Debian?
I need to (programmatically, in a shell script) upload an EAR file to an Amazon S3 bucket on Debian (5.0.4). What, if any, Debian package provides simple, scriptable tools for that?
Ideally this ...
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Updateing files on Amazon’s CDN
is there any way to update files stored on Amazon's CDN service? Seems like it won't take any update of a file we make (eg. removing the file and storing the new one with the same file name as ...
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1answer
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Amazon S3 access control + bandwidth
I'm thinking about maybe using Amazon S3, but have a few questions:
does it provide access control to limit GETs?
does it provide "high-speed" transfer?
I'm looking to serve large files to a vast ...
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Benefits of Amazon S3?
I've looked at Amazon's S3 and I'm planning on moving stuff over to it, but I'm wondering what stuff should be moved and what shouldn't. Is it that much of a benefit to move all of my images there so ...
