Tag: S3

Today we released version 1.9.0 of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio with support for AWS Lambda. AWS Lambda is a new compute service in preview that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources for you, making it easy to build applications that respond quickly to new information. Lambda […]

S3Link has been in the AWS SDK for Java for a while now, and we have decided to introduce it to the AWS SDK for .NET as well. This feature allows you to access your Amazon S3 resources easily through a link in your Amazon DynamoDB data. S3Link can be used with minimal configuration with […]

The AWS SDK for Ruby provides a few methods for getting objects out of Amazon S3. This blog post focuses on using the v2 Ruby SDK (the aws-sdk-core gem) to download objects from Amazon S3. Downloading Objects into Memory For small objects, it can be useful to get an object and have it available in […]

This is part 2 of Using AWS CloudTrail in PHP. Part 1 demonstrated the basics of how to work with the CloudTrail service, including how to create a trail and turn logging on and off. Today, I want to show you how to read your log files and iterate over individual log records using the […]

AWS CloudTrail is a new service that was announced at AWS re:Invent 2013. CloudTrail provides a history of AWS API calls for your account, delivered as log files to one of your Amazon S3 buckets. The AWS API call history includes API calls made via the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line interface, and […]

Today’s post is from one of our Solutions Architects: Jonathan Desrocher, who coincidentally is also a huge fan of the AWS SDK for Ruby. There are certain situations where we would like to take a dataset that is spread across numerous Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) objects and represent it as a new object […]

Generally speaking, access to your Amazon S3 resources requires your AWS credentials, though there are situations where you would like to grant certain forms of limited access to other users. For example, to allow users temporary access to download a non-public object, you can generate a pre-signed URL. Another common situation is where you want […]

What is client-side encryption, and why might I want to use it? If you wish to store sensitive data in Amazon S3 with the AWS SDK for Ruby, you have several ways of managing the safety and security of the data. One good practice is to use HTTPS whenever possible to protect your data in […]

As of the 2.3.0 release, the AWS SDK for PHP now provides an official Amazon S3 PHP stream wrapper. The stream wrapper allows you to treat Amazon S3 like a filesystem using functions like fopen(), file_get_contents(), and filesize() through a custom stream wrapper protocol. The Amazon S3 stream wrapper opens up some interesting possibilities that […]

Warning: this blog post provides instructions for AWS SDK for PHP V2, if you are looking for AWS SDK for PHP V3 instructions, please see our SDK guide. Have you ever needed to upload an entire directory of files to Amazon S3 or download an Amazon S3 bucket to a local directory? With a recent release […]