Secure Amazon S3 Streaming - For WordPress

Secure Amazon S3 Downloads - For Websites

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Secure Amazon S3 Streaming

Secure amazon s3 streaming is a popular feature request by Wordpress owners.

To often wordpress blog owners find that other website owners are linking to their videos and so costing the owner bandwith fees!

However, using a popular wordpress plugin, secure amazon s3 streaming is possible. NO MORE content & bandwidth theft for Amazon S3 users.

Amazon S3 Wordpress plugin S3 Flow Shield makes is simple to stream video and audio files from your Amazon S3 account securely – all via your blog.

The plugin also includes a custom Flash player for either embedding your videos in a post OR via a popup.

S3 Flow Shield is a must for Wordpress membership sites or popular public blogs!

Secure Amazon s3 streaming is only a few clicks away, so why not get started today?

Read more here: www.wpandamazons3guard.com

Kind Regards

Marc Liron MVP

PS: Looking how to secure Amazon S3 downloads for Websites? …then take a look at: S3 Downloader

Nov

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What Is Amazon S3?

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Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an online storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 provides unlimited storage through a simple web services interface.

Data can be easily stored and retrieved at any time, from anywhere on the web.

Amazon charges in proportion to the amount of data stored and applies charges for sending and receiving data.

Amazon S3 uses the same scalable storage infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run its own global e-commerce network.

It uses fully decentralized techniques to remove scaling bottlenecks and single points of failure.

Launched in March 2006, Amazon S3 is currently being used by Internet Marketing professionals, small businesses, small Internet start-ups and enterprise clients as a web hosting service, image hosting service, back-up system, and more!

Amazon S3 clients even include global companies like Microsoft, Xerox, Linden Lab (Second Life), WordPress and Webmail.us to name but a few.

Once an account has been setup with the Amazon S3 service you can then use free software like DataBucket Pro or the free firefox plugin S3Fox, to manage your files.

There is even a secure amazon s3 streaming wordpress plugin for those that want to protect their videos (and PDF files) from bandwith theft!

Got a website? Then if you want to protect your S3 hosted files from “hot linking” then software like S3 Downloader is a good solution.

Kind Regards

Marc Liron MVP

Nov

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How Do Amazon S3 Accounts Work?

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To use the Amazon S3 web service you need to have an account – its free to create one – there are NO setup fees involved! To create an account you will sign up with an email (username) and password.

Once you successfully sign-up with a new account, Amazon will prompt you on your AWS Access Identifiers, which includes your Access Key ID and Secret Access Key. Keep them safe!

When you upload anything to Amazon S3, it stores YOUR data as an “object” on the Amazon network.

EACH object can be up to a maximum 5 GB in size, for MOST users uploading a file of less than 100 MB is normal.

Each “object” is contained within a “bucket”. Honestly you DO get used to these terms after a short while!

Each Amazon S3 account can have a maximum of 100 Buckets. Each Bucket can hold an UNLIMITED amount of Objects (your data files).

If you need more Buckets, that’s no problem. Just create a second Amazon S3 account (you just need a different eMail address).

Software like Data Bucket Pro can hold and manage MULTIPLE accounts for you – so don’t worry about that!

In practice though most users will have only a single Amazon S3 account… And remember once a bucket name has been taken it is GONE for use by anyone else!

Kind Regards

Marc Liron MVP

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Amazon S3 Bucket Name Restrictions

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There are some Amazon S3 bucket restrictions and limitations you MUST be aware of…

A bucket is owned by the AWS account (identified by AWS Access Key ID) that created it. Each AWS account can own up to 100 buckets at a time. Bucket ownership is NOT transferable. However, if a bucket is empty, it can be deleted and its name can be reused by anyone else who wants it.

For instance I currently “own” the bucket names; entrepreneur / blogging / internetmarketing / socialmediamarketing. If I delete them from my account, they would then be available for others to claim.

Buckets have the following restrictions:

# Bucket names can ONLY contain numbers, periods (.), underscores (_), and dashes (-).
# Bucket names MUST start with a number or letter.
# Bucket names MUST be between 3 and 255 characters long.
# Bucket names CANNOT be in an IP address style (e.g., “192.168.5.4″).

To conform with DNS requirements, (basically if you want to create a URL to share the files), Amazon HIGHLY recommend following these additional guidelines when creating buckets:

# Bucket names should NOT contain underscores (_).
# Bucket names should be between 3 and 63 characters long.
# Bucket names should NOT end with a dash.
# Dashes cannot appear next to periods. For example, “my-.bucket.com” and “my.-bucket” are invalid names.
# Bucket names should NOT contain UPPERCASE letters.

This means that if you want to use the bucket with a URL, rather than for personal data storage that never needs to be shared, you MUST obey these last 4 points!

Kind Regards

Marc Liron MVP