Recently I moved some podcasts on to
Amazon Simple Storage Service, or S3, which I know is great and easy to use, and I’ve used it with some wrappers, but never directly until now. It turns out, unsurprisingly, that S3 is great and easy to use :) I used
s3cmd from
s3tools – a collection of python scripts that made this really really easy. Even better, I’m an Ubuntu user so
s3cmd is already packaged for me and I simply installed with:
sudo aptitude install s3cmd
Once installed, I found s3cmd --help
was surprisingly helpful. To start with you need to set up an access key on AWS (Amazon Web Services) using your amazon user credentials, then supply this to s3cmd by using s3cmd --configure
and following the prompts.
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