I want to upload thousands of images from my Digital Ocean Droplet to my S3 Bucket, i already create a piece of code that upload an crop all new images from my site to the bucket, so now that is working fine i just want to move all of my images from my production droplet to the bucket.
I have stored 52 GB on images so i dont know how to move all of my images to the bucket! what will be the best approach?
The best approach will be :
Create a Zip file of images you want to transfer.
Create an EC2 Instance in the same region as the Bucket is.
Copy the Zip file to EC2 Instance.
Unzip the Zip file in EC2 Instance.
Use aws cli to copy the Images from EC2 Instance to the Bucket.
The other approach, is to use aws cli directly from the Droplet, but due to large number of files, it'll take a lot of time to transfer.
In aws cli you can either use aws s3 cp or aws s3 sync to copy your images.
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I have found a solution for syncing S3 buckets data over link Copy objects between S3 buckets
aws s3 sync s3://DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET-SOURCE s3://DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET-TARGET
But I want to copy specific files from the production S3 bucket to the staging s3 bucket via the file paths that are stored in the production database. Any suggestion of how I can achieve that using Laravel aws-sdk-php, lambda function, or aws-cli?
My Laravel app allows users to upload images. Currently, when the user uploads their images, they are stored in a temporary location on the server. A cron job then modifies the uploaded images (compresses them, etc.), and uploads them to S3. Any temporary files older than 48 hours that failed to upload to S3 are deleted by another cron job.
I've set up an Elastic Beanstalk environment, but it's occurred to me that storing uploaded images in a temporary directory on an instance is risky because instances can be created and destroyed when necessary.
How and where, then, would I store these temporary files so that they're not at risk of being deleted by an instance?
As discussed in the comments, I think that uploading the file to S3 is the best option. As far as I know, it's not possible to stop Elastic Beanstalk from destroying an ec2 instance, unless you want to get rid of all of the scaling and instance failure/autoreplacement features.
One option I don't know much about may be AWS EBS. "Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud." I don't have any direct experience with EBS, the overriding question of course would be if EBS is truly persistent, even after an ec2 instance is destroyed. As EBS has costs associated with it, it seems like since you are already using S3, S3 would be the way to go.
S3 has a feature called object lifecycle management you can use to have files deleted automatically by setting them them to expire 2 days after they're uploaded.
You can either:
A) Prefix the temporary files to put them in an S3 psuedo-folder (i.e., Temp/), apply the object lifecycle expire rule to that specific prefix (or "folder"), and use the files in there as a source of truth for the new files derived from it post-manipulation.
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B) Create an S3 bucket specifically for temporary files. Manipulate the files from there and copy to the production bucket.
I'm working with EMR (Elastic MapReduce) on AWS infrastructure and the default way to provide input files (large datasets) for programs is to upload them to an S3 bucket and reference those buckets from within EMR.
Usually I download the datasets to my local,development machine and then upload them to S3, but this is getting harder to do with larger files, as upload speeds are generally much lower than download speeds.
My question is is there a way to download files from the internet (given their URL) directly into S3 so I don't have to download them to my local machine and then manually upload them?
No. You need an intermediary- typically, an EC2 instance is used, rather than your local machine, for speed.
I am looking to have multiple Amazon EC2 instances use the same data store. Amazon does not condone mounting an S3 Bucket as a file system, so I am trying to avoid this solution. Is there a way to synchronize an EBS volume with S3 or would it be best to use rsync and cron?
Do you really have to have the files locally available from within EBS? What if instead you served them to yourself via CloudFront, and restricted the permissions so that only your instances (or only your Security Group) could see the files?
Come Fall 2015 you'll be able to use Elastic File Storage (EFS) for this. But until then, I would suppose the next best thing is to use the AWS command-line to sync down from S3 to your volume:
aws s3 sync s3://my-bucket/my/folder /mnt/my-ebs/
After the initial run, that sync command is surprisingly fast. So from there you could just cron it to run hourly or so?
I am in process of hosting a dynamic website on Amazon EC2. I have created the environment and deployed war on ElasticStalkBean. I can connect to mysql database too. But I am not sure how my web application will read/write to the disk and at which path?
As per my understanding, Amazon provides 3 options for file storage
S3
EBS (Persistant)
instance storage
I could upload files on s3 creaing bucket but how can my web application read or write to S3 bucket path on differnt server?
I am not sure how should i upload files or write file to EBS. Connecting to EC2, I cannot cd /dev/sd* directory for my EBS attached to my environment instance. How can I configure my web app to use this as directory for images etc
Instance storage is lost if I stop or recreate env. and is non persistant. So not interested to store files here.
Can you help me on this?
Where to upload file that are read by application?
Where can my application write files?
Your question: "how can my web application read or write to S3 bucket path on different server?
I'm a newbie user of AWS too, so can only offer limited help, but this is what I understand:
The webapp running in the EC2 instance can access the S3 storage using with the REST or SOAP APIs. Here's the link to the reference guide for using the REST GET function to get a file from S3:
GET object documentation
I guess the idea is that the S3 storage bucket that Amazon create for your EBS "environments" provides permanent storage for your application and data files (images etc.). When a EC2 instance is created or rebooted, it should get any additional application files from an S3 bucket and 'cache' them on the file system ("volume") attached to the EC2 "instance".