Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Posts

Whether you have a static website like this blog or a front-end application developed using a framework like Angular, React, or Vue.js, you can follow similar steps to create a continuous deployment pipeline on AWS using AWS CodePipeline. In this post, I will share the AWS services you can use while creating this type of pipelines to achieve fast and frequent deployments.

Continue reading the AWS CodePipeline for Your Static Websites & Frontend Apps: A Complete CI/CD Approach blog post.

In some cases, you may need to transfer your objects in one of your Amazon S3 buckets to a different AWS account. AWS CLI provides high-level commands on S3 to move objects between two buckets. By also using Amazon S3 bucket policies, you can perform this even if the destination bucket is in another AWS account. Today, I will talk about the steps you need to do along with a few explanation on bucket and object level permissions.

Continue reading the Copying S3 Bucket Objects to Another AWS Account blog post.

When you decide to distribute your content stored in your Amazon S3 bucket with Amazon CloudFront, you most probably would like to avoid your users bypassing CloudFront and accessing them directly from Amazon S3.

In this blog post, I will demonstrate how you can utilize Origin Access Identities to restrict access to your S3 bucket on your Amazon CloudFront distributions.

Continue reading the Restricting Amazon S3 Bucket Access on CloudFront Distributions blog post.

In our Ruby on Rails web applications, we use Amazon S3 to store files. Uploading files to Amazon S3 buckets via HTTP requests requires signing the request. The current recommended, and safe signing method is Signature Version 4, and AWS regions opened after January 30, 2014, such as London and Frankfurt, only support this version.

In this blog post, I will try to explain how to sign HTTP requests for Amazon S3 uploads in a Rails application and make requests by using AngularJS ng-file-upload module.

Continue reading the Signing S3 Upload Requests With Signature Version 4 in a Rails and AngularJS Application blog post.