Update: On April 30, AWS announced S3 Batch Operations is generally available. Most of the things we wrote below are still valid. Last year, during re:Invent, it was announced a very interesting feature: S3 Batch operation. It was one of the most interesting and promising announcements heard and we were very impatient to test it. […]
Tag: S3
Load service configuration details from AWS S3
Recently, we worked on a microservice that handles many queues for retrying failed tasks, each having different configuration properties. Until we calibrate our application, we had to adjust those configuration properties almost daily and that was quite painful for us: code changes, code review, deployment and tomorrow from the beginning. In order to make our […]
Are you aware of Pre-Signed URLs in AWS S3?
Today we want to tell you a story: recently we recently met with a friend and between many discussions started with “remember when”, we had also discussed technical problems. He detailed us an interesting solution done in order to give temporary access to some files he has stored somewhere. We know and we admit we […]
Uploading file into S3 from Spring Boot microservice
There is an ongoing and never ending journey we had started long time ago: how to build a microservice with Spring Boot and how to run it in Elastic Beanstalk. All the articles that have been published till now are available here. Today we’ll continue this series with another subject: how to upload file into […]
For what is not Glacier?
Excluding costs, there are 2 main things that makes AWS great: large number of services offered and integration between those services. And for the last category, a good example is the integration between AWS S3 and Glacier. With only few clicks in the S3 console, you can create a lifecycle rule that automatically moves objects […]
How data encoding can influence your bill
Because our recently published article about how to cut your S3 costs has had a very good feedback, we decided to dive deep into this subject and to explain how the encoding format you choose affects the S3 bill. S3 doesn’t know and doesn’t care what kind of files you insert. It’s up to you […]
How to reduce your S3 costs
Amazon S3 was the first service launched by AWS in March 2006. Among all words used to shape a disruptive product – scalable, reliable, fast, simple – one has been important: cheap. At that time, the cost was 2 orders of magnitude lower than operating your redundant data storage. Nowadays, S3 continues to be one […]
S3 vs DynamoDB price comparison
In this post we’ll change the topic and instead of implementation details we presented recently, we are going to analyze the prices for 2 of the most used AWS services. Does this sound like comparing apples and oranges? Nothing better! Go ahead and read this to the end to convince if you are right or […]