Simon Willison’s Weblog

Browser Uploads to S3 using HTML POST Forms. I didn’t know you could do this: create a regular HTML form that gives people permission to upload direct to your own S3 bucket, using a signed JSON policy statement in a hidden form field to prevent third parties from abusing your S3 account.

# 27th June 2008, 12:11 pm / amazon, aws, forms, json, post, s3, signing

Amazon Gets an SLA (But I Still Can’t Use It). “Ontario’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Acts (FIPPA) don’t allow me to store sensitive information (e.g., students’ work) in jurisdictions that permit secret warrants, like those mandated by the USA PATRIOT Act.”

# 9th October 2007, 3 pm / amazon, aws, canada, fippa, greg-wilson, ontario, patriotact, privacy, s3

Amazon S3 Service Level Agreement (via) Went in to effect on the 1st of October. Promises 99.9% uptime over a monthly billing cycle or you get “service credits” towards future S3 payments.

# 9th October 2007, 12:52 am / amazon, aws, jeffrey-mcmanus, s3, sla, uptime, web-services

Processing Web Documents using Alexa Web Search, Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2. I’m not sure when it happened, but Alexa Web Search can be hooked in to EC2 now—presumably with free bandwidth between the two.

# 1st July 2007, 7:19 pm / alexa, amazon, aws, ec2, s3

Mass Video Conversion Using AWS. How to use S3, SQS, EC2, ffmpeg and some Python to bulk convert videos with Amazon Web Services.

# 3rd April 2007, 11:44 pm / amazon, aws, ec2, ffmpeg, python, s3, sqs

boto. Python library for accessing Amazon’s S3, SQS and EC2 Web Services, with excellent documentation.

# 11th February 2007, 12:17 am / amazon, aws, boto, ec2, python, s3, sqs

An S3 AJAX Wiki. Les continues to innovate against S3.

# 22nd April 2006, 7:09 pm / ajax, aws, javascript, les-orchard, s3, wiki

How I’m using Amazon S3 to serve media files. Adrian’s saving server overhead on ChicagoCrime by serving media from S3.

# 7th April 2006, 6:51 pm / adrian-holovaty, amazon, aws, chicagocrime, s3

JavaScript apps with read/write access to S3. JS apps hosted on S3 could read and write to the store.

# 4th April 2006, 9:33 am / aws, javascript, s3

Backing Up Flickr Photos with Amazon S3. 25 lines of Python.

# 22nd March 2006, 6:53 pm / amazon, aws, flickr, matt-croydon, python, s3

BitBucket—Experimenting with Amazon S3 Service in Python (via) Nice pythonic API.

# 22nd March 2006, 6:05 pm / amazon, aws, python, s3

Amazon S3. Game changing.

# 22nd March 2006, 5:59 pm / amazon, aws, s3