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AWS S3 and...? Looking for a little input/guidance
I have an app that I'm developing where one of the features I'm thinking of adding will be to add a number of images to a compressed file, and make it available for for download. Essentially "Here's your library of images, download them all at once".
I've got it working on a cloud server - but I'm thinking about using Amazon's S3 instead for the storage. I know that amazon has a number of other services as well...so that's what I'm looking for guidance on.
What combination of amazon services ought I look into if I want to:
1: Store an image
2: Queue up a process to take any number of images (could be 20, could be a thousand) and compress them into a zip file.
3: Store that file and make it available for download.
Would that be a mix of S3 and EC2? Or...? How would you see that process working in their environment?
I haven't done much with Amazon so I'm a little out of my sandbox there.
Thanks for any input in advance -
I've got it working on a cloud server - but I'm thinking about using Amazon's S3 instead for the storage. I know that amazon has a number of other services as well...so that's what I'm looking for guidance on.
What combination of amazon services ought I look into if I want to:
1: Store an image
2: Queue up a process to take any number of images (could be 20, could be a thousand) and compress them into a zip file.
3: Store that file and make it available for download.
Would that be a mix of S3 and EC2? Or...? How would you see that process working in their environment?
I haven't done much with Amazon so I'm a little out of my sandbox there.
Thanks for any input in advance -
Phil Phillips
Yeah, I'd say a mix of EC2, S3, and maybe Cloudfront. EC2 for doing the initial storing and processing, and S3 for doing the storing. You can serve the final file directly from S3, but pairing it with Cloudfront would allow you to have the content closer to the users, plus the added benefit of a bit more flexibility with the domain name and SSL. If that isn't important though, using S3 to serve the files will do fine.
ASKER
Yeah - I'm not so much concerned about cloudfront - because at least at the start - I'm not REALLY concerned about proximity of the content to the users. Maybe if the site/app matures and grows I'll tack it on - but at the start I'm happy with S3 serving the files.
Is EC2 then basically just a provisioned server instance? Like I can specify "Give me Ubuntu 14.04 or CentOS 7 as the OS", then configure it as needed?
Is EC2 then basically just a provisioned server instance? Like I can specify "Give me Ubuntu 14.04 or CentOS 7 as the OS", then configure it as needed?
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Gracias :)