As of recently (see http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/02/host-your-static-website-on-amazon-s3...) AWS S3 can behave as a HTML web server.

What about an ability of pushing an entire Drupal website into HTML format and serve the converted pages directly from S3?

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coderintherye’s picture

coderintherye commented

This is an interesting idea. There is no technical limitation to treating the Amazon S3 server the same as a FTP server, and I should be able to use file wrappers for it, possibly using http://drupal.org/project/s3_api

So in short, sure, I'll give this a shot.

coderintherye’s picture

coderintherye commented
Version: 6.x-2.x-dev » 7.x-1.0
Priority: Normal » Major

Targeting this at 7.x and can backport to 6.x.

This could happen quicker with some sponsorship.

tcibah’s picture

tcibah commented

what is the target date for D7 S3 support?

Will co-sponsorship (a relatively small donation) help getting the target date closer? weeks from now?

coderintherye’s picture

coderintherye commented

Unsponsored, I'd say the target date is mid next year sometime.

Sponsored, maybe January.

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beautifulmind
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I'm trying to achieve something similar and will share my work here.

Regards.

sohail.aslam@gmail.com’s picture

sohail.aslam@gmail.com commented

One option could be to use s3fs to mount S3 bucket as a file system and use that as the destination ftp directory.