Re: Need some help with Amazon S3

2007-05-07 Thread Frédéric Sidler
i'm currently playing with amazon EC2 and S3 for data and ressources. I found that Adrian Holovty used S3 for chicagocrime.org http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2006/04/07/0927/?highlight=s3 2007/5/7, Kyle Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 1) We found S3 to be a bit slow, both upstream and down.

Re: Need some help with Amazon S3

2007-05-07 Thread Kyle Fox
1) We found S3 to be a bit slow, both upstream and down. Upstream is slow largely because of the SOAP overhead (from what I understand), and we were sending lots of data (about 5 resized images for each image uploaded to django). Downstream, well, not much you can do about that, regardless of h

Re: Need some help with Amazon S3

2007-05-06 Thread Joseph Heck
No idea about question #2 - it was my impression that S3 was a stateless mechanism and didn't support the concept of streaming, but I haven't read all that much about it, so I could easily be wrong. #1 is probably best resolved by taking advantage of the S3 REST interface and plugging that in to

Need some help with Amazon S3

2007-05-06 Thread Sam Purtill
Hi, I am doing two things with Amazon S3: 1) Storing images/thumbnails for user profile pictures. Uploading 1 picture and resizing it to 4 different sizes so I can grab those easily on different pages. 2) Allowing users to upload documents. I have two questions about doing this 1) What is the