Uploading directly to Amazon S3 from a Rails application
The use cases for Superhug are heavy on uploading and downloading large(ish) files. Rails itself isn’t so well suited to this sort of task, and it’s best to keep state away from application servers...
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Amazon recently announced that their CloudFront service now supports serving of an arbitrary object at the root URL of a CloudFront domain. This means that Amazon S3 users can now host entire static...
View ArticlePurchasing an RDS reserved instance in eu-west-1
After Amazon’s announcement that they’d released reserved instances for Amazon RDS, I decided to purchase a small instance to save the $300-odd per year by buying a one-year reservation. But for...
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