NYCPHP Meetup

[Chris Snyder]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Randal Rust <randalrust at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Chris Snyder <chsnyder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For static files like this, pushing them off to Amazon S3 works really
>> well. You can either serve them straight from S3, or if you need even
>> better response, use CloudFront
>
> I thought about that, and we even use S3 on another project. But these
> aren't really static files. Here is the structure:
>
> SWF file
> -- XML configuration file
> ---- Folder(s) with tile images
>
> Can I create a directory in an S3 bucket and then put multiple files in it?
>
> On our other project, we used a Firefox plugin to upload the PDF files
> to S3, so I'm not all that well versed in it.
>

The file names within the bucket can have slashes, so even though
there is no directory per se, the effect is the same.

I'm not sure if you could still use CloudFront without translating the
file names in the SWF or XML, but you should be able to use plain old
S3 transparently.