Questions tagged [amazon-s3]
This is for questions on Amazon's cloud storage service.
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How do you create a EC2 Bundle through AWS Management Console?
I have a running instance.... I've clicked on the "Instance Actions"
and selected bundle
It asks for a s3 bucket name - I've entered a bucket name I've created on S3. However when I click "bundle"...
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A basic website on AWS S3
I want to put a basic website on a linux image on S3. I am guessing just for the image that will be a 2 Gig charge roughly (OS, mysql if that is possible, glassfish etc). So lets say no one visits ...
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Using RSYNC with Amazon S3 [closed]
I am interested in using Amazon S3 to backup our ~ 100gb server images (created via Acronis backup tools)
Obviously, this uploading to S3 every night would be expensive, in terms of bandwidth and ...
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AWS S3 Backup Strategies - How should I approach backing up S3 buckets?
I am in the process of building a web-app with potential for a massive amount of storage requirements which can be satisfied by amazon S3.
My main concern is the usage of API keys on the server, and ...
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AWS s3 - How to serve different file based on url parameter
For legacy reasons I need to serve different files from amazon s3 based on query string parameters. For example myfile.php?type=1 should serve other file than myfile.php?type=2. the files themselves ...
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best practice? Consumer data in MySQL on Amazon EBS (Elastic block store)
This is a consumer app, so I will care about storage costs - I don't want to have 5x copies of data lying about. The app shards very well, so I can use MySQL and not have scaling issues.
Amazon EBS ...
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Most efficient way to copy between S3 accounts
I am migrating data from one S3 account (billed to me) to another S3 account (billed to my company). How do I copy the data in the easiest, fastest, and most cost-effective way?
There are some ...
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Amazon pricing - transfer between EC2, EBS and S3 [closed]
I have read quite a bit on amazon and the pricing details for EC2, EBS and S3 but i still have a few questions:
If i understand correctly, traffic between EC2 instances isn't billed.
Is the data ...
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Scriptable Amazon S3 windows client?
Quick question, simple console client for Amazon S3 at Windows?
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Understanding Amazon AWS usage data
I love Amazon AWS, but I'm tearing my hair out over the obscure usage data they give you. All they seem to have is either an extremely high level summary that just shows you your total monthly cost ...
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Jungledisk for backing up my Wiki and Drupal sites? [closed]
Hi would you guys suggest that I ask my webhost to install Jungledisk so that my backups would be stored to Amazon S3 as well? Do you guys know a better solution?
Thanks in advace!
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Storing EC2server images in bucket "subfolders"
I am creating an AMI (Amazon EC2 server image) for all the servers I'm working on. Every server image is separated into some dozens of tar files:
Splitting /mnt/routing-4-server-Ubuntu-x86-64.tar.gz....
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How frequently do Amazon CloudFront objects expire?
The answer I can find in the FAQ is as follows
An object stays in an edge location
until it expires. After the object
expires, CloudFront must go back to
the origin server the next time that
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How to use Symantec Backup Exec with S3 Amazon Storage?
Is there any proven efficient way on how to use Symantec Backup Exect for Windows Servers to use S3 as one of the Devices to backup to. Even if it means to use a plug-in to make it work.
thanks!
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Does Amazon S3 make any sort of guarantees on your data?
I've read over the agreements several times, and I can't find anything that guarantees Amazon will not lose or corrupt your data. Do they make any such guarantees? Can I trust S3 as my long term ...
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How is Amazon S3 storage billed? [closed]
Various Amazon S3 questions
Hey everyone,
I just got an Amazon S3 account and I am developing my production backup script / strategy and just had a few questions.
Monthly Storage - how exactly is ...
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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 before)....
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Duplicity and Amazon S3 Script
I'm looking to backup my linux server to Amazon S3 using duplicity.
I found a great resource here that helped me get it setup and am using the basic script that was listed there for me and now copied ...
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Can you have private URLs in Amazon's CloudFront?
In Amazon's S3 storage system you can have sort of private URLs using a special query string and expiring the link after a while.
Is such a private system possible using Amazon's CloudFront, which is ...
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Software for using Amazon S3 as backup service [closed]
What software do you recommend for using Amazon S3 as a placeholder for daily backups?
I need it to be fully automated, and easy to restore data.
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How do I back up an AWS S3 Bucket without versioning the source bucket [closed]
Is there any way to recover from accidental deletions of an Amazon S3 Bucket?
We've got critical info in our buckets and I need to mitigate the risk of accidental or malicious deletions of the bucket ...
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Precautions when using Amazon's S3
I am in the process of building a website that will distribute a large amount (>150GB) of small files (~25Mb Avg.) to a large number of people, since both bandwidth and disk space are expensive with ...
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S3 Interfaces for Backup, etc [closed]
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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What is the best way to backup mysql in s3?
mysqldump is probably not the best idea on running backups every x hours but is the one that we are currently using. The backups are around 150 Megs each so sending it to other machines could waste ...
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