This is for questions on Amazon's cloud storage service.
Questions tagged [amazon-s3]
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How to restrict outbound EC2 to only access S3?
I want to restrict the outbound security group from an EC2 instance. The instance only needs to access an S3 bucket. I just learned that S3 uses port HTTPS (443). I could just put that rule in place to allow any connection to any ip as long as it is…
user277526
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Access denied copying files using S3 CLI
Attempting to pull down the contents of an S3 bucket using the AWS CLI, I'm getting the following:
aws s3 cp --region us-east-1 s3://s3.amazonaws.com/my-bucket . --recursive
A client error (AccessDenied) occurred when calling the ListObjects…

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What IP range do I ask the system administrator to open in order for S3 to work?
I've written some programs for Raspberry Pi, which some small companies have shown interest in. I sold pre-configured Raspberry Pi:s to them, with my program on them, and it works for everybody except one of the companies. They have very strict…

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I get a 403 when requesting a JS file from CloudFront
This is new to me so please excuse me if I have no idea what I'm talking about (: I'm trying to set up my own CDN with CloudFront and S3 through a subdomain by adding a CNAME to that subdomain to point to the CloudFront.
It seems like I get a 403…

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Does Amazon S3 make any sort of guarantees on your data?
I've read over the agreements several times, and I can't find anything that guarantees Amazon will not lose or corrupt your data. Do they make any such guarantees? Can I trust S3 as my long term backup storage?

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Can you restore a MySQL dump file from an S3 bucket to an RDS instance?
I'm investigating running regular MySQL dumps to an S3 bucket as part of a disaster recovery strategy (partly spurred by the current zero cost of inbound data transfer!). In the event of a disaster, I would want to restore the dump file from S3 to a…

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s3cmd run on command line not on cron
Many have said that the problem is with environment but I still can't seem to solve this problem.
BTW I am using Ubuntu 9.10
login as user, then sudo -s
using this command: s3cmd put file s3://bucket >>worked!
now here is the simple script…

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Amazon CloudFront and EC2: Global Load Balancing
We have an app that is going to store and serve up a decent amount of data in S3 to a global audience where latency should be minimized. So, we've been doing tests with Amazon CloudFront and have seen favorable results.
However, we need a thin…

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AWS: How to redirect many domains to a page on another domain?
My objective
I have a number of domains (e.g. 10 or 20) and I would like to redirect any visitors to anywhere on those pages to one page on another domain (for example my stackoverflow.com profile page).
This includes
apex domain using http (e.g.…

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What are the differences between all the S3 urls?
I want to serve assets to the internet. I have created a public bucket with website hosting enabled.
I have discovered several kinds of URLs supported by AWS:
# HTTP + HTTPS
https://.s3.amazonaws.com/
# HTTP…

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AWS Permissions: Lambda access Denied to S3
I have created a Lambda Python function through AWS Cloud 9 but have hit an issue when trying to write to an S3 bucket from the Lambda Function. When I test in Cloud 9 the Python codes runs fine and writes to the S3 bucket perfectly. When I push…

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How can you use Amazon S3 or S3-compatible Storage as NFS?
How can you use Amazon S3 or S3-compatible Storage as NFS?
Is there a way to achieve this?
Something that can be accessed through an external network (internet, public) using NFS protocol.

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Setting up IIS reverse proxy to preserve host headers
I have an IIS server that is hosting a number of sites and apis. These sites include Confluence and Jira instances. These products actually run their own web servers so the Application Request Routing and Url Rewrite modules are being used to…

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Syncing / backup from S3 buckets to openstack swift containers
I need to backup/sync few hundred GB of files in S3 buckets to openstack swift containers.
I have thousands of files in several S3 buckets I want to copy/sync over openstack swift containers but I don't want to copy them over on the disk server then…

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VTL with AWS S3 in Veeam
After implementing the solution based on the following manual - https://www.driftar.ch/2017/06/13/veeam-using-starwind-vtl-with-aws-s3-in-veeam/ and successfully configuring the solution, but the main difficulty that I have encountered is with the…

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