(cross-posted to the BaconMarathon blog)
Tim Kay of ActiveBuddy fame has been working on aws, which he says provides “simple access to Amazon EC2 and S3”. I ran into Tim a while ago and we chatted about aws – around the same time, I also heard about it from Mike.
As all the BaconMarathon apps are running on EC2 and using S3 for storage, I’ve been looking for an easier way to interface with S3 in particular. I finally got around to trying out aws the other day and found it be more than advertised. Finally, I had one simple command to examine buckets on S3:
aws ls
That was it. Creating buckets, puts and gets are just as simple:
aws mkdir BUCKET
aws put BUCKET/[OBJECT] [FILE]
aws get BUCKET
We’re now using aws to push our MySQL backups to S3 on a scheduled basis – a simple change to our existing backup jobs.