Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease

3/14/2006

Filed under: General — Peter @ 2:45 pm

Can you use Amazon’s S3 service to host the images for your new Flickr killer?

URL’s look like this: http://s3.amazonaws.com/mypictures/0001/

Quotes is the bucket, Nelson is the object. You can store JPGs there, no problem.

The question is: can you access this anonmously, ie, can I do

I’ve been reading the auth docs, haven’t figured it out. Anyone have an answer?

Thanks!

Sure you can: http://s3.amazonaws.com/mypictures/0001/peter.jpg. Check out the s3curl utility that comes on the website, that makes it easy. You just need to set the acl to public-read.

Comment by Anonymous — 3/15/2006 @ 4:15 am