Friday, June 17, 2011

Software for Easy Management of Amazon S3 and CloudFront

In this post I want to recommend a tool that will help you manage your Amazon S3 storage. I've been using Amazon S3 for couple of things like backing up important documents and images and also for serving static content of my blog. You have the option to login to Amazon AWS console and manage the Amazon S3 bucket from there, but it's far away from being intuitive and user friendly.  I've searched for a solution for managing my S3 buckets and I found an excellent software that does so, it's called Cloudberry S3 Explorer Pro.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Delay in distributing static content over Amazon CloudFront

Today I made a few changes to one of the static files on my blog. Those static files are serves from S3 which is attached to CloudFront for fast and reliable global distribution of my static content. The file was actually a Thesis theme custom.css file, or to be precise a custom.css.gzip file. I am using W3 Cache WordPress plugin to take advantage of the CDN feature.